Public Safety
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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week.
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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Tight funds and a need for interoperable radio communications inspire nearly 20 years of collaboration on a statewide network that continues to grow.
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Communities are notified of public health issues, disaster recovery, missing children and more.
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The Durham, N.C., 911 Center adopts software that shows 3-D, aerial images of buildings, highways and other structures, gives first responders better picture of the incident scene.
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A competitive matrix in the notification industry is virtually useless. It provides almost no meaningful assistance to making informed decisions.
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Incident commanders can track personnel and equipment in real time on the scene and improve post-incident accountability using OnSite ERT.
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Roanoke County, Va., consolidated public safety and information technology operations into one department, but putting an IT person in charge of 911 is proving to be a good match.
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The Los Angeles Police Department’s iWatch program taps the community to help fight terrorism, while a national program standardizes suspicious activity reporting.
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A look at the system-of-systems approach for communicating to the masses.
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Intelligent information sharing has improved, but there’s a long way to go.
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Growing emergency communications system serves more than 450 state, county and municipal agencies.
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Almost 900 people have joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Southwest border-focused social network.
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The digital transition opened new channels for public safety, but a failed FCC auction has put the future of public safety broadband in jeopardy.
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The National Governors Association’s State Homeland Security Advisors Survey highlights priorities and issues.
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Inaccurate addresses cause potentially fatal delays in emergency response, but a proposed standard could improve the situation.
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McEwen, chairman of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp., was named one of the Government Technology’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of 2010.
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Earthquake risks in the United States include some of the same that took a deadly toll in Haiti and Chile.
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Regional Integrated Transportation Information System and Capital Wireless Information Network connected first responders after massive snowstorm.
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Communicating between six reservations is possible only by phone without access to the statewide system.
