CANTON: Union employees at the Stark County 911 Call Center must pay higher health insurance contributions during the next two years and will not receive a pay increase for three consecutive years.
Tag Archives: Ohio
FCC Mandates Force Costly Update for Two-Way Radios
Thousands of public and commercial mobile radios in the Dayton area are being reprogrammed or replaced to meet federal mandates intended to reduce harmful interference to public safety communication systems and make more efficient use of radio frequencies.
The mandates affect all two-way radio system operators, including police, fire, hospitals, utilities, schools, and commercial manufacturing and business.
Governments Look for Dispatching Service Savings
By STEVE HUSZAI, Staff Writer, Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio) WOOSTER — Information was flowing from city and county officials Tuesday night regarding attempts to regionalize dispatching services. But when pressed about specifics, village and township officials left the meeting with questions unanswered. The meat of the meeting concerned background information and the situation as it [...]
Ohio Counties Look to Save Money with Regional Dispatching
WOOSTER, Ohio — While consolidated dispatch centers exist across the nation, a study used the four located in Ohio as case studies: The Chagrin Valley Regional Communications Center in Chagrin Falls; the Metropolitan Emergency Communications Center in Gahanna; Regional Emergency Dispatch Center in Massillon; Westshore Central Dispatch Center in Westlake.
9-1-1 Getting Text Upgrade in Ohio
Franklin County residents likely will be the first in the state to be able to text their emergencies to authorities when calls to 911 are not possible.
911 Call Reveals Terror at Drugstore
MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County – A Walgreen’s clerk was calm when she called 911 Saturday afternoon to tell police that a man carrying a rifle and dressed in fatigues had fired a shot inside the store. Police released the recording of the 911 call on Sunday.
Chief Tried to Outsource Dispatching before Massive Police Layoff
MOUNT STERLING, Ohio — Chief Mike McCoy says he developed plans to cut his budget and save his force, but nobody listened. After the Village Council voted Monday to lay off every dispatcher and officer except McCoy because there was no money left to pay them, several officials said the chief had long been told to get his budget under control and hadn’t.
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Don’t Procrastinate … The FCC’s Narrowband Deadline Is Almost Here!
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Dispatching: A Profession or a Job?
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FCC Says PSAPs Must Be Able to Receive 9-1-1 Texts
- Naples City Council Bristle at Cost of New Radios; Suggest Officers Share
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Duty-Related Trauma Exposure in 9-1-1 Telecommunicators
- Residents: Go Slow on Address Change
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Don’t Procrastinate … The FCC’s Narrowband Deadline Is Almost Here!
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Protect Your PSAP Applications from Downtime
- Senate Confirms Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Pai as New FCC Commissioners
- N.M. Governor Unveils Wildfire-Warning System
- FCC Reviews Rules Governing the Emergency Alert System
- S. Elgin Dispatch Switch Smooth So Far
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