by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday formally denied the request by Chinese telecommunications group ZTE to remove the agency’s designation of the company as a national security threat.
The denial comes months after the FCC formally designated both ZTE and Chinese telecom group Huawei as national security threats, and banned U.S. groups from using funds from the FCC’s $8.3 billion Universal Service Fund to purchase equipment from either group. Huawei is currently in the middle of a legal battle disputing the designation…
by ECC Editor | Nov 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
BELLEFONTE — There’s going to be a change at the top of Emergency Communications in Centre County.
At Tuesday’s Centre County Salary Board meeting, it was announced that longtime director Dale Neff is retiring at the end of the calendar year. Following a search, it was determined that assistant director Norm Spackman would take over for Neff, beginning in 2021.
County administrator Margaret Gray said that the county conducted a comprehensive search for Neff’s replacement… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Seattle City Council’s final $6.5 billion dollar 2021 budget cuts the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and other departments, allocates millions of dollars for community-based alternatives to public safety, replaces the Navigation Team, and expands tiny house villages and other services for unhoused people.
Much of the 20% cut to SPD was accomplished by moving services like parking enforcement and 911 dispatch into another department, and eliminating vacant positions…
by ECC Editor | Nov 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) – The Office of Unified Communications publically apologized to a D.C. mother on Tuesday, some five months after a D.C. dispatcher sent crews to the wrong address, delaying the 9-1-1 response time to a cardiac arrest emergency. Sheila Shepperd, 59, died in a hospital afterward, according to her family… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Nov 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Throughout the pandemic, first responders have been quick to help those who have contracted COVID-19. On some of those calls, people are suffering from worsening symptoms of the virus too.
Dispatch Communications Supervisor Carla Turner said difficulty breathing and headaches are the main symptoms that dispatchers have heard on 911 calls. As the virus continues to spread, Turner said she wants the community to know they are in good hands if they dial those 3 numbers… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
MONTPELIER — The Capital Fire Mutual Aid System is getting ready to withdraw from the Central Vermont Public Safety Authority even as some of its members attempt to persuade city councils and select boards around the region to invest in upgrading the area’s aging emergency communications infrastructure.
Technically no decisions — including one that was actually requested — were made during last week’s meeting of the mutual aid system’s board. However, the stage was still set for an up-or-down January vote with respect to the organization’s continued participation in the public safety authority members agreed to join more than two years ago…
