Text messages between Alachua County’s top two officials link federal CARES Act money intended for distribution to municipal governments to a separate dispute with the city of Gainesville over funding for emergency dispatch services.
City officials say it’s an unfair ploy to use that federal money as leverage, a claim that county officials deny…
Faced with a terrifying emergency, Patty Mead expected to get help when she called 911.
But it was not to be.
Because there is no cell service where Mead lives, she went and grabbed her land-line phone and came back. She called 911 and reached a dispatcher, but no help was to be found…
According to the latest update on the development of the work within the 3GPP on critical communications earlier this month (hosted by the TCCA), Chairman of 3GPP RAN Balasz Bertenyi said that the technology move from 4G to 5G is not really such a big jump. The biggest challenge for the critical communications community and people that are active in the public safety environment, is to move from digital narrowband to 4G,….and it doesn’t matter from whatever system (TETRA, TETRAPOL or P25) you are migrating from…
Chillicothe/Livingston County E-911 Coordinator Cindy Hanavan applied for and received two grants in 2020 through the Office of Homeland Security/Department of Public Safety for the Next Generation 911. The Chillicothe Police Department reports the federal grants will pay 60% of the total cost of the project, and the city/county pays the other 40%. The total cost of the grants is $63,825. The City of Chillicothe and Livingston County will be responsible for $38,295…
City of Lithonia officials announced that residents can sign up for real-time public safety updates after Lithonia Police Department partnered with Nixle to implement a community notification system.
Lithonia officials said residents who sign up will receive real-time alerts for “localized emergency situations and relevant community advisories.”
All alerts will be targeted geographically—according to city officials—letting residents receive localized, relevant alerts from Lithonia Police Department…
Each year the South Carolina Chapter of the National Emergency Number Association and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials present the Palmetto Award to a person who reflects exceptional professionalism in the field of emergency communications and inspires others in the field…
