Efforts to modernize California’s 911 emergency system have stalled as state officials propose a new blueprint and lawmakers move forward with a bipartisan bill to implement more oversight.
Lawmakers advanced Senate Bill 985 to establish more oversight in the state’s 911 system revamp project. The bill would require California’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to “provide quarterly reports to the Legislature on the development, implementation, and spending on the Next Generation 911 system.”
The project, known as Next Generation 911, aims to update the state’s emergency response system with new technology that allows users to send text messages, photos, and videos to a 911 dispatch center and enables dispatch centers to locate callers more quickly and accurately, according to Cal OES….