Grant County Judge/Executive Chuck Dills was the chief deputy sheriff when the county merged with Kentucky State Police dispatch in 2005. He admits county law enforcement especially had qualms about the merger, but so did the county itself.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Emergency Communications Center Manager Patty Turner to the Virginia 9-1-1 Services Board, the department announced Monday.

San Francisco, August 12: The iPhone 14's Emergency SOS via Satellite feature helped save a family in Maui (an island in Hawaii, US) that was caught in a wildfire spreading across the region. Michael Miraflor, a user on X (formerly Twitter) said that five people...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Law enforcement officers aren’t the only public servants working hard to keep Central Florida safe. Orlando police Chief Eric Smith stopped by the Emergency Communications Center Friday night to thank dispatchers for their hard work taking countless...

The only female FDNY manager in the ongoing ageism lawsuit against Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh was cast at a disciplinary hearing last week as an “entitled” employee “who went rogue” and began firing off unprofessional emails to department heads. But Carla...

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) - Flood cleanup and recovery continues in Middlebury following last week’s deluge, and it has local officials working in close quarters.

Wireless carriers continue to improve their ability to provide 911 centers with more location—including vertical Z-axis information—but the FCC continues to hope that carriers will be able to provide a dispatchable location with emergency calls, an FCC official said...

ROCKLAND — Put public safety chiefs in a room together with a critical problem to solve, such as the demise of the county emergency dispatch center, and they won’t leave until a viable action plan is in place.

The state legislature set aside a special fund in the last session to help the transition, including in Benton County. Sheriff Troy Heck says the facility is going from analog to digital. “So, instead of having 911 call flow over telephone lines, we’re now going to be...

The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $162,500 to settle a lawsuit by a former 911 call center manager who said he was wrongly punished for speaking up about problems at work, including a dispatch practice that allegedly contributed to a fatal heart attack. READ FULL...

About four months after the city of Milwaukee watched the installation of its new 911 dispatch software fall apart, the city believes it has a solution in time for the 2024 Republican National Convention coming to town. The resolution is crucial for a city that's...

CARY N.C. – Emergency telecommunicators in Cary can now use livestreams to see fires, break-ins, and more while a caller is on the phone, with permission.

CLAREMONT, N.H. (WCAX) - Nearly $1 million in federal funding will help upgrade the emergency communications system in Claremont, New Hampshire, and surrounding towns.

The Montgomery County Emergency Communications District, which handles 911 and dispatching services for the county, had its fiscal year 2023-24 budget denied on Aug. 8 by county commissioners over a staffing and pay dispute with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

NASHVILLE—After years of work, Real-time text (RTT) solutions are being used in 911 centers today, and the technology’s flexibility could portend a future in which RTT is used to support emergency calling beyond the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, APCO panelist...

SAFECOM and the National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC) would like to congratulate Mark Buchholz on his award. During the Spring SAFECOM Bi-Annual Meeting on May 10, 2023, in Pasadena, California, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

ST. LOUIS – An internal memo distributed to St. Louis police officers—and obtained by the FOX Files—reveals there were not enough dispatchers in the city this past Saturday evening. A portion of the memo reads, “Please keep in mind that we have one dispatcher handling...

As part of a pilot program that rethinks some responsibilities traditionally handled by police, a community crisis response team run out of the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services has started responding to some 911 calls related to behavioral health and...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Public safety telecommunicators utilizing APCO’s IntelliComm software can now quickly direct 9-1-1 callers during time-critical cardiac emergencies to the closest automated external defibrillator (AED). The life-saving advancement comes from the...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — When people in Louisville are desperate for help, they call 911. But there are times when those calls for help are put on hold. Copyright 2023 WDRB Media. All Rights Reserved.