Only two counties are not part of the Idaho grant. Ada County, the state's most populous, is one of them because it started a ...

Idaho is taking a major leap into the future of emergency services with the approved funding for Next Generation 911 (NG911). The program will replace decades-old analog infrastructure with a ...

Next Generation 911 infrastructure will allow residents to send pictures and video to dispatch. The new technology also ...

The Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission on July 10 approved a $15 million grant to modernize the state’s emergency ...

Emergency communication centers across Idaho are updating their equipment; however, some local systems remain outdated and ...

The general idea behind Next-Generation 911, of course, is to more efficiently meet people in need of emergency assistance where they are — that might mean via text or mobile devices — and to ...

So far, however, the federal grant funding to help PSAPs transition to next-generation 911 has been minuscule. Organizations advocating for 911 agencies have formed the NG911 NOW Coalition to ...