911

On today’s episode of The Confluence: Allegheny County will work with the Harvard Kennedy School's Government Performance Lab to implement different responses to nonviolent 911 calls; the Latino Community Center has opened a new headquarters in East Liberty; and we look at the pay raise state lawmakers are expected to receive this year, corresponding with the inflation rate. Today’s guests include: Gloria Gong, executive director of the Government Performance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School; Rosamaria Cristello, founder and executive director of Latino Community Center; and Christina Baker and Jaxon White, reporters with Lancaster Online.

Somerset County is on track to upgrade its 30-year-old 911 radio system by early fall, according to 911 coordinator Dave Fox.Fox said four of the six…

More than 9 million 9-1-1 calls are made in Pennsylvania each year to call centers serving 67 counties and two cities. Fielding all these calls requires a…

Pennsylvania residents no longer need to fear the threat of eviction when calling 911.“There were some municipalities that were adopting ordinances that…

Another year, another Allegheny County budget proposal attempting to patch together funds for the Department of Emergency Services but the years of…

The Allegheny County 911 Center has received 185 text-to-911 messages since the service was introduced in May, according to the Department of Emergency…

Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh agreed to co-locate 911 services in 2004, and 10 years later, that merger has reached its final…

More than a year of negotiations has yielded little fruit when it comes to increasing the monthly phone line surcharge that funds 9-1-1 call centers in…

Being in an emergency situation is scary enough -- but what if you can’t even call 9-1-1?Allegheny County Emergency Services is now taking that into…

State lawmakers want Pennsylvanians to be able to contact 911 via Skype on their computers or Facetime on their smartphones, but they haven't figured out…