The Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) announced that it is scheduled to reopen July 14, making it among the first convention centers in North America to host an event after the closure due to the coronavirus outbreak.
This announcement is significant because APCO 2020 is taking place Aug. 2-5, 2020, at the Orange County Convention Center, which recently presented its Recovery and Resiliency Plan to the Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force. Developed in accordance with policy recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Orange County Government, and state and federal mandates, the OCCC’s Recovery and Resiliency Plan relies on the best available data, science and research. Learn more about the plan.
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The City of Westerville, Ohio, Communications Division is the 70th ECC in the United States to implement the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) and the 5th ECC in the state of Ohio to implement ASAP. Westerville went live with Vector Security, Rapid Response, Affiliated Monitoring, Amherst Alarm, AT&T Digital Life, Guardian Protection, Brinks Home Security, National Monitoring Center, Protection One, Security Central, Tyco (Johnson Controls), and Vivint on Wednesday, June 3. ADT is expected to go live with Westerville in the upcoming weeks.
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Mission Critical Communications
The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition argues that the FCC should grant a stay because 6GHz users will be at risk of interference and “catastrophic consequences, including injury or death of first responders.”
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9 to 5 Mac
The Chandler (Arizona) emergency communications center received a 9-1-1 call from a computer voice alerting public safety telecommunicators that the user had fallen and was not responding. Telecommunicators dispatched police and fire to aid the man.
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Hometown Life
The woman used videoconferencing and a sign language interpreter to reach 9-1-1, and the call went on much longer than the ECC's average of 37 seconds to process a call. Fire Chief Robert Vogel is planning to meet with the woman to discuss better options, such as TTY and text-to-911.
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Syracuse.com
A false accusation based on race, gender or religion would be classified as a hate crime. The legislation has gained traction after the incident caught on camera in which a white woman in Central Park called 9-1-1 and falsely accused a black man of threatening her.
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KRON
The Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland program would send a counselor and an EMT instead of sworn officers to non-violent police calls for service, such as someone reporting that their child won’t get up and go to school.
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St. George News
Officials obtained a GPS location from the man’s cell phone that enabled them to send a helicopter to his location in an isolated stretch of the Milky Way Mountain biking trail.
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KRBD
Some question removing the public safety telecommunicators from Ketchikan, which covers southeastern Alaska, a geographically confusing area where many towns are connected only by water.
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KTTN
The state-federal grant will be used to update the county’s call handling equipment, covering 60 percent of a $144,400 project.
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Autoblog
Help Connect automatically initiates calls in the event of a crash. The system alerts the Bosch Service Center, which then transmits the message to local emergency services.
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KIRO 7
Seattle’s Police Officers Guild president said officers support peaceful protesters, but criticized a "small group of criminal actors" that have injured police. In response to calls to defund the police department, he questioned who would respond to calls for help in emergency circumstances.
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