Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The L.A. County Sheriff's computer dispatch system went down on New Year's Eve. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A few hours ...

For the second time in just over a month, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's computer dispatch system crashed on Wednesday evening, rendering patrol car computers unusable and forcing ...

Baltimore's emergency dispatch system failed due to the heat during a mental health response that ended with a man dying while in police custody, Mayor Brandon Scott confirmed. The failure of the ...

The Monticello, NY Police Department recently updated a 20+ year old on-site system with the latest dispatch platform from 911Systems. The new system substantially increases the department’s ...

Stanislaus County leaders came to a tenuous compromise over a 911 dispatch service upgrade. Supervisors approved agreements for county agencies including the Sheriff’s Office to connect to a new ...

An outage in the city’s computer-aided emergency dispatch system snarled some communications between Baltimore police and fire officials last week, briefly causing disarray as officers repeatedly ...

Sarasota County has launched a new $5 million computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system to improve emergency response times. The new system replaces a 20-year-old platform and provides real-time ...

Emergency dispatchers for the region's Bureau of Emergency Communications had to shift to a manual call-taking process after a global IT outage impacted their computer-aided dispatch system Friday.

The city of Aurora is considering buying new dispatch and records management software for its public safety departments for just over $4 million. Through the proposed five-year contract with Mark43, ...

(TNS) - The July 19 Microsoft glitch that caused outages of computer systems globally also affected Owensboro-Daviess County 911 dispatch. But Director Paul Nave said the 911 center’s emergency backup ...

For the second time in just over a month, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s computer dispatch system crashed on Wednesday evening, rendering patrol car computers unusable and forcing ...