Wernicke new Liaison – KS911 Coordinating Council
Congressman Mann see’s demonstration of Text-to-911 & Rapid Video Rice County, Kansas March 6th, 2023 – On March 3rd, 2023, Congressman Tracy Mann stopped by and toured the Rice County Emergency Communications Center prior to his townhall in Lyons. Public Safety Telecommunicator Diana Espinoza demonstrated the RCECC’s capability to process a Text-to-911 call for service. …
Congratulations to MARC’s Hassan Al-Rubaie and Karen Clawson who graduated from the Heartland Certified Public Manager® (CPM) program, a professional education opportunity for managers working in government agencies, nonprofits, and organizations that contract to provide public services and meet community needs.
February 16, 1968 sees the first official “911” call placed in the United States. Now taken for granted as first course of action in the event of emergency by nearly all of the nation’s 327 million people, 911 is a relatively recent invention and was still not standard across the United States for many years…
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• 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…