Court Links Dispatcher, 4th Amendment Violation
The New Jersey Supreme Court has tossed out the guilty plea of a man arrested on drug charges, saying a Milltown police dispatcher violated the man’s 4th Amendment rights by giving the arresting officer incorrect information that the man had a wa…
Ex-Dispatcher Files Claim, Hostile Work Environment
The attorney for a former Wayne (Neb.) police dispatcher has filed a discrimination claim with the city asking for $167,501.39 for back pay, punitive damages and attorney fees in connection with her 2009 firing for a variety of charges that included i…
Ex-Dispatcher Files Claim, Hostile Work Environment
The attorney for a former Wayne (Neb.) police dispatcher has filed a discrimination claim with the city asking for $167,501.39 for back pay, punitive damages and attorney fees in connection with her 2009 firing for a variety of charges that included i…
AT&T Intros Mobile Cellular Sites For Government
Public safety agencies can now purchase their own mobile cellular site from AT&T to provide communications for remote locations or at active emergency scenes. Today the company introduced its Remote Mobility Zone product, which can be arranged for…
Family Sues RCMP Over 911 Call
The family of a woman who died along a rural Saskatchewan (Canada) road in 2010 has filed a lawsuit against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), saying a dispatcher mishandled a 911 call asking for help. Kerry Canepotatoe, 19, was in a car that r…
State Mandates EMD For All County Centers
By July 2013 all county-level public safety comm centers in West Virginia are required to have trained their dispatchers to provide emergency medical dispatching (EMD) services, and to bear the costs of training and any extra staffing. Gov. Earl Ra…
Convicted of Murder, Man Appeals 911 Call Ruling
A St. Louis (Mo.) man is appealing his 2009 murder conviction, saying a jury should have been allowed to hear a 911 call he made to a dispatcher who gave him CPR instructions for his girlfriend’s 3 year-old daughter whom he found unconscious. Q…
Dispatcher Was First Contact After Tragedy
When a suicidal woman drove her van into the Hudson River last night in tiny Newburgh (NY), four of her children were inside the vehicle with her. But her 10 year-old son managed to escape from the van as it was sinking and swim to shore. A passerby d…
After Earthquake, FCC Examines Network Reliability
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has embarked on a wide-ranging inquiry into the reliability and resiliency of the nation’s communications networks, specifically how they might perform in the face of a Japan-level earthquake or other c…
FBI Tracks Down Prankster, 100s of Calls
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has served a search warrant on the home of aWisconsin man, based on information he was making hundreds of harassing and threatening telephone calls to sheriff’s departments in two states. The search warra…