by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
RALEIGH, N.C., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND), a software company focused on communications for the enterprise, today announced surpassing a key milestone of over 20 million 911 endpoints under management across the U.S. and Canada. The industry-disrupting 911 call routing provider, long known for delivering a comprehensive suite of highly-reliable emergency services solutions, has seen dramatic growth in recent years stemming from its full service support for new and complex E911 regulations like Kari’s Law and RAY BAUM’s Act…
by ECC Editor | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
St. Francois County Joint Communications Center will be asking voters on April 6 to make permanent the 3/8-cent sales tax they last approved in 2014. The tax generates about $3 million annually for round-the-clock, emergency 911 dispatch services serving St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties.
The tax was scheduled to sunset this year, but due to the almost-total loss of the landline-phone tax—a tax whose decline drove the center to pursue the sales tax about seven years ago in the first place — the center relies “100%” on the revenue the 3/8-cent generates, said Director Alan Wells… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
FAIRHAVEN — The Police Department’s Emergency 911 Dispatch Center will forever be named now after former office Michael A. “Sully” Sullivan.
At the March 22 Board of Selectmen meeting Police Chief Michael Myers discussed the career of Sullivan. Sullivan served 22 years in the Army before coming to the Fairhaven Police Department on March 22, 1999.
For the next 18 years he served as the main dispatcher for the department…
by ECC Editor | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) – Commissioners in Pender County have appointed a new director for the county’s Emergency Management department.
Tommy Batson, who most recently served as the county’s fire marshal and assistant emergency management director, was chosen to succeed State Representative Carson Smith, a former sheriff of Pender County who was appointed to the role in an interim capacity in March of last year... READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Some local superheroes were recognized for their efforts keeping the community safe.
Shawnee County’s dispatchers were honored by the Sunflower Lions Club of Topeka with a day of snacks and the installation of a new wall plaque celebrating their contributions…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — The Grand Rapids Communications Center has achieved national recognition. The Commission for the Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) voted unanimously on Friday to recognize the Grand Rapids Public Safety Answering Point as an accredited dispatch center.
Grand Rapids is currently the only dispatch center in Michigan to earn the accreditation…
