-- Dec. 24--Following a request by the union representing the bulk of the county's police officers, the county will suspend its new computer-aided dispatch system -- at least temporarily. (Anne ...

The computer aided dispatch system (CAD) used by the D.C. Office of Unified Communications to take and dispatch 911 calls is down. This means call takers and dispatchers must do all communications for ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The 7News I-Team is taking a closer look at a plan for D.C.’s 911 Office of Unified Communications (OUC) to avoid a repeat of numerous outages this summer. In an exclusive ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Ada County Computer Aided Dispatch was intentionally taken down after dispatch officials noticed "unusual activity." But, 911 and non-emergency dispatch will not be affected. The ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The archaic computer dispatch system for the nation's largest sheriff's department remained out of commission on Thursday after crashing on New Year's Eve, forcing deputies to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The archaic computer dispatch system for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department remained out of commission on Thursday after crashing on New Year’s Eve, forcing deputies to ...

L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Carter uses his patrol car computer in 2019. Deputies were back to using radios Wednesday as the dispatch system crashed. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) For ...

An ongoing glitch in Baltimore City’s computer-aided dispatch system occurred when police called for medical assistance for an unresponsive man in police custody, who later died. On June 24, a man who ...

A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and ...

Dispatchers at Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications had to switch to taking calls manually Friday, after a global IT outage impacted some of the city’s computer systems. An emergency ...