Published: Wednesday, August 1, 2007
County 911 is behind schedule
No one knows when the
county information will be approved.
LISBON — Columbiana County's enactment of enhanced 911 phone service is a year behind schedule with no starting date in sight.
Robert Emmons, the director of the program, told the county's technical advisory committee Tuesday that the date of enactment is in the hands of AT&T. The committee represents communities and safety forces.
Emmons said that he had fixed problems with street names and addresses that officials from subdivisions delayed in compiling earlier this year.
The information will tell dispatchers at one of five locations throughout the county the location from which a call was made. The "enhanced" version will show dispatchers the location on a map.
"I wish I could give you a date when the data base will be activated," Emmons said.
He said the data base information provided to him was about 90 percent accurate. AT&T wants the information to be more than 99 percent accurate before it goes into use.
When AT&T might approve his revised information base is anyone's guess, Emmons said.
Once it's enacted
Once the enhanced 911 service is enacted, then the county will begin to enact emergency service for cell phones. That will require hiring a company to make a map of the longitude and latitude of the county every five feet. That system will also allow dispatchers to see on the computer the location of a cell phone call.
The Columbiana County sheriff's office, Salem, Columbiana and East Liverpool have moved into their new dispatching centers for the E911 project. East Palestine is in the process of moving.
Emmons said he wants to install a computerized clock to the system to coordinate efforts. The system would use one time for the emergency call, the activation of the recording of the call, and entering the report into the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System.
Emmons said he also wanted to get large digital clocks for dispatchers that would also be tied to the computer.
The committee won't meet again until 1 p.m. Sept. 25.
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