Entries by Lori Alexander

911 Council Workshop

May 1st, 2018 members of the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council and their partners at the KBI Facility on the Washburn Campus.  Thanks everyone for a successful workshop discussing the roadmap for the next year!

May 3, 2018 /0 Comments/by

Latest Version of SB 420 Update

• 911 Act: Hearing was held. We worked extensively with the Kansas Association of Counties and other parties to support getting this bill out of committee. However, the Committee Chair announced in committee there were too many questions surrounding the fees and the bill would not be worked. The upcoming Legislative Post Audit Report was […]

March 20, 2018 /0 Comments/by

Answering the Call for Help

The call handling system the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council utilizes for the statewide call handling solution has been acquired by Motorola Solutions.  Motorola Solutions has featured videos on the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council in regard to Text-to-911 and Answering the Call for Help on their website.  You can view the videos at the following link

March 9, 2018 /0 Comments/by

Happy Anniversary 911!

50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST 911 CALL Topeka, KS, February 16, 2018– The Kansas 911 Coordinating Council would like to recognize the 911 professionals of Kansas on the 50th anniversary of the 1st 911 call. On Feb16, 1968, Alabama Speaker of the House, Mr. Rankin Fite, made the first 911 call from the Haleyville City […]

February 16, 2018 /0 Comments/by

Update to the 911 Outage January 27th, 2018

Today we received the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) report from AT&T in regard to the outage we experienced on the statewide hosted system on January 27th. As we had expected, the RCA shows that multiple events led to the outage. We were sure that this would be the case, as the system design would not […]

February 14, 2018 /0 Comments/by

Kansas 911 ACT – Updated Bill Proposal

Here is the latest draft bill that we believe is being introduced today to the legislature.  Once the bill is introduced there will be committee hearings and floor debate.  As a result of these hearings and debate there could be changes to the proposed bill.  We encourage you to contact your state legislators asking for […]

February 9, 2018 /0 Comments/by

KS APCO/KS 911 Coordinating Council Conference October 2017

The Kansas 911 Coordinating Council has partnered with Kansas Chapter of APCO to host the fall conference in Newton, Kansas. The conference provide three days of training and networking opportunities to Kansas Public Safety Telecommunicators.  http://www.ksapco.org/home.html http://www.thekansan.com/news/20171010/apco-conference-kicks-off-in-newton http://www.thekansan.com/news/20171011/apco-honors-rankin-for-40-years-of-service

November 10, 2017 /0 Comments/by