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		<title>Bill Would Extend Narrowbanding Deadline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even with seven years of warning, many public safety agencies have not taken the first steps to meet the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s (FCC) requirement to narrowband their radio channels by Jan. 2013. Now a U.S. Congressman wants to give them two more years to comply. Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ) has introduced H.R. 3430 to extend the narrowbanding deadline to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/02/bill-would-extend-narrowbanding-deadline/</link>
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		<title>Dispatchers On Strike Night of Delayed Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Toronto (Ont.) coroner&#8217;s inquest heard testimony from EMS comm center supervisors that a union-called strike may have forced them to perform several tasks at once, on the same night a heart attack victim waited 35 minutes for an ambulance. James Hearst, 59, appeared intoxicated to a caller in the lobby of an apartment building in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/02/dispatchers-on-strike-night-of-delayed-response/</link>
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		<title>Bureaucracy Issues Feature List For Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A deeply-buried subcommittee within the federal government has issued an &#8220;extended essay&#8221; on the subject of nationwide, public safety communications, documenting its desirable features, while not breaking any new ground. The examination was prompted last June by a request from the country&#8217;s Chief Technology Officer to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In turn, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/02/bureaucracy-issues-feature-list-for-radio/</link>
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		<title>Officers Protest Computer System As ‘Hindrance’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you happened to meet a Bethlehem (Penn.) police officer, you&#8217;d never know he might be wearing a silent protest to the department&#8217;s computer-aided dispatch (CAD) software underneath his uniform. In fact, some officers are wearing &#8220;CODY SUX&#8221; t-shirts under their uniform shirts, a protest to the $770,000 CAD and records system that was installed in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/01/officers-protest-computer-system-as-hindrance/</link>
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		<title>Family Hopes To Find Dispatcher’s Killer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Garland County (Ark.) Sheriff&#8217;s Department says it has a person of interest in the murder of Hot Springs Village dispatcher Dawna Natzke, and her family is hoping someone will come forward with information for an arrest. Natzke went missing last Dec. 23rd, and her body was found in a local pond on New Year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/01/family-hopes-to-find-dispatchers-killer/</link>
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		<title>Calif. City Switches to Verified Alarms Only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The San Jose (Calif.) Police Department hopes to eliminate 15,700 responses in 2012 after the city council approved a verified burglar alarm policy. As one element to improve street patrol staffing, police will now respond only to burglar alarms when there is additional information that a crime is actually occurring. Panic, duress and robbery alarms will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/01/calif-city-switches-to-verified-alarms-only/</link>
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		<title>Google Maps Adds Public Safety Alerts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a larger crisis response project, Google Maps has today launched a Public Alerts Web page, showing the locations of weather, earthquakes, floods and other location-specific incidents. For example, today&#8217;s map shows flooding in northern Indiana and severe thunderstorm warning in Louisiana. In a blog posting, Public Alerts engineer Steve Hakusa says, &#8220;We&#8217;re learning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/01/google-maps-adds-public-safety-alerts/</link>
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		<title>City Extends Test of Text-To-911 Feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A test of texting 911 in Durham (NC) has been extended by three months to collect more data for a decision if the service should become permanent. The city, in collaboration with Intrado and Verizon Wireless, has been accepting text messages from citizens since August 2011, and routing them directly to the city&#8217;s public safety comm center [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/01/city-extends-test-of-text-to-911-feature/</link>
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		<title>State Settles Radio Contract Lawsuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After three years of legal action, the state of New York has agreed to pay back $25 million to Tyco Electronics Corp., part of $50 million the state recovered after canceling the company&#8217;s contract for a state-wide public safety radio network. The $2 billion radio network was based on new technology, which the company claimed would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/01/state-settles-radio-contract-lawsuit/</link>
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		<title>Maine Proposes E911 Surcharge For iPads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Maine legislature is considering a bill that would—for at least the third time—change the surcharge on monthly telephone bills to support the state&#8217;s E911 system, and would expand the surcharge to some non-voice devices, including iPads. The bill proposed by Rep. Stacey Fitts (R) would increase the surcharge from the current 45¢ a month to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.911dispatch.com/2012/01/maine-proposes-e911-surcharge-for-ipads/</link>
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