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Statement of Commissioner Michael J. Copps Announcing His Departure from the FCC
December 7, 2011“Yesterday, I submitted to the President notice of my intention to resign my post as Commissioner effective January 1, 2012,”…
Read full articleA Dispatcher’s Life
December 6, 2011Andrew Pantazi, Staff Writer, Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee) She started as a guard at Silverdale Detention Facility in Chattanooga,…
Read full articleSprint and Clearwire Announce New Agreements
December 5, 2011Wash. – Dec. 1, 2011 – Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) and Clearwire Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) today announced agreements potentially worth up…
Read full articleCross Country Automotive Services & ATX Group Join to Form Agero
December 5, 2011On Monday, Cross Country Automotive Services and ATX Group, will join forces to form a new company, Agero, and top…
Read full articleCounty Trip to Look at Public Safety Radios
December 2, 2011Tim Hrenchir, Topeka Capital-Journal (Kansas) Six Shawnee County representatives will make a two-day visit this month to Richardson, Texas, to…
Read full articleWalden Subcommittee Allocates D Block, Provides $6.5 Billion for Public Safety Broadband Network and Includes NG9-1-1 Funds
December 2, 2011WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 2, 2011 – The Public Safety Alliance (PSA) announced that it is pleased that the House…
Read full articleDes Plaines 9-1-1 Center Talks Moving
December 1, 2011Officials with the North Suburban Emergency Communications Center are considering vacating the second floor of Des Plaines City Hall and moving the 911 operation to another site.
Read full articleEx-Dispatchers’ Lawsuits Claim Sexual Harassment
December 1, 2011The Delaware County dispatch office is accused in two former dispatchers’ lawsuits of being a playground for various sexual activities, including displaying on county computers photographs of a dispatcher wearing only thong underwear. Shelby Haggard, a former 911 dispatch supervisor and Joey Lambert, a former 911 dispatcher, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in May 2009 against the Delaware County commissioners and the Delaware County E911 Trust Authority, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, according to court records. Jodi Casey, an attorney with the Oklahoma City law firm of Collins, Zorn & Wagner, who is handling the county civil rights lawsuit, was not available for comment. Commissioner Billy Cornell, the only current board member who was in office at the time of the allegations, declined comment on the lawsuits on advice of Casey.
Read full articleGovernors Praise Subcommittee Reallocation of D Block
November 30, 2011WASHINGTON—The National Governors Association (NGA) today issued the following statement regarding the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and…
Read full articlePublic Safety Declares Major Progress in Reaction to Release of Walden Discussion Draft
November 30, 2011WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 30, 2011 – The Public Safety Alliance (PSA) today welcomed House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman…
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