by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Monday announced a plan to use $5.5 million that the city owes the State of Missouri as reimbursement for a 2018 wrongful conviction settlement to improve the city’s 911 system and support emergency responders.
The city and the state agreed to pay nearly $14 million to the family of George Allen, a Black man wrongly convicted of murder in the early 1980s. Allen died in 2016 after spending 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
Lawrence County, Tennessee (WKRN) — In 2020, the Lawrence County 911 Center was hit by a malicious ransomware attack... What’s wrong? And how did the 911 team handle the cyber emergency? Andy Cordan returned to Lawrenceburg to talk to those who fought head-on with the threat.
The ransomware attack occurred in the spring of 2020 and began with a very alarming notice on the computer at the 911 Center’s workplace.
Marty Crum is the Operations Manager at the Lawrence County Emergency Communications Center. “Now I’m really sick and thinking” OK, we’re under attack. We are losing everything…
by ECC Editor | Nov 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
ATLANTA – A power outage at the Atlanta Police Department’s E911 Communications Center has forced officials to move from the building for the second time this month.
Atlanta police said they were forced to move operations to Fulton County’s Center Monday. Police said the backup battery system was working to allow for the transition… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
Athens-Clarke County commissioners have voted to apply for a state grant to give public safety officers an additional $1,000 pay bonus.
This latest round of bonuses approved by the commission follows a vote in early November to provide $1,000 bonuses for all employees as well as a premium pay boost for select employees.
Commissioner Mariah Parker voted against the measure for public safety officers, while Commissioners Russell Edwards and Allison Wright did not vote…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Town of Boone and Watauga County are among a number of recipients of grant funding from the North Carolina 911 board for equipment improvements.
Watauga Online reports $8.45 million has been granted to 12 local public safety answering points and $6 million for three statewide projects.
According to the report, the Boone Police Department will receive $252,565.43 and Watauga County will receive $154,130.86. The grants will fund improvements to 911 PSAPs, radio-and-dispatch equipment upgrades and creation of new PSAPs…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
NORRISTOWN — Elyce Rivera, a 911 telecommunicator at the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety’s Emergency Communications Center in Eagleville, was getting close to the end of her overnight shift when the phone rang.
It was 6:41 a.m. on Oct. 27. A woman named Charlotte Fatoma was calling as she was driving stretches of Interstates 76 and 476 in Montgomery County. She had gone into labor and was on the way to the hospital. She sounded scared.
“I’m not going anywhere. I’m here with you. I’m going to take care of you [and] make sure everything’s OK,” Rivera recalled telling her…
