Public Safety
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The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday. -
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land.
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The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will evaluate a $13 million rental agreement for the Sheriff’s Office to obtain new radios and accompanying equipment. The previous lease dates to 2015 and expired last year.
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A booster for the Pfizer vaccine was given emergency approval last month for people who are 65 or older, those 18-64 who are at high risk of severe COVID or whose on-the-job or institutional exposure puts them at high risk.
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Both police and crisis mobile team workers are walking into a "universe of unknowns" when responding to calls, unless they can share information.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is considering a pilot program of two-person teams comprised of a mental health clinician and an emergency medical technician to respond to low-risk 911 calls and defuse any situation involving people going through a mental health crisis.
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Fentanyl was detected in the blood of 89 of the 260 total people who died from overdoses in San Francisco in 2018, while it was present in 519 of the 712 people who overdosed in 2020.
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From 2019 to 2020, patient assaults on employees more than tripled, from 40 to 123 while injuries increased from 17 to 78 at the hospital in southwest Missouri. The hospital said the pandemic is “greatly compounding the issue.”
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“Through the course of a first responder’s career — whether you’re a firefighter, police officer, EMT — you kind of get a higher tolerance for acceptable risk."
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According to H.D. Palmer, the state Department of Finance's deputy director, Cal Fire estimates the current emergency fund expenditures are nearly $200 million over its budgeted amount for this fiscal year (July 2021 to July 2022).
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Some elective procedures in surgery, cardiology and interventional radiology will be temporarily stopped. Cancer-related procedures, emergency services and ambulatory surgery sites will not be affected.
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Exhausted health care workers around the state have also recently been experiencing hostility by patients and the people they serve, according to Dr. Anne Zink, the state's chief medical officer.
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The city's stricter employee vaccination mandate — announced last month and set to take effect Sept. 30 — will require vaccinations, and limit the weekly-testing alternative only to those eligible for a medical or religious exemption.
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A map of the United States, updated daily, shows that California is the only state that is not recording "high" rates of COVID transmission, according to the CDC.
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Vaccines have emerged as the most contentious issue since masking, and 30% of people 12 and older are still unvaccinated in Florida, according to the state Department of Health.
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It would be easy to blame the influx of COVID-19 cases, but while the admission of COVID-19 cases is having an impact, the changes it has caused in the economy represents the other side of the story.
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About 75% of the department's officers are vaccinated, 255 have applied for religious or medical exemptions, and two are facing termination for refusing to comply with the city's vaccine mandate.
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“The hospitals are full. People are coming in suffering from neglected conditions because they’ve deferred care for almost a year and a half, or because they’re seeking elective procedures that they’ve delayed.”
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"We are depending on FEMA, we are depending on PEMA, to help us get the funding to mitigate this," said Coatesville's city manager, James Logan. "The city will not be able to fund this without their help."
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“Congress must put an end to mass spying by ensuring that surveillance is targeted, that there is robust judicial oversight and that people whose lives are invaded by government surveillance can challenge that spying in court."
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It was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 . They were in Newark Airport , where Horniacek worked as an inflight coordinator. Her job was to check in flight crews at the airport before they boarded their planes.
