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Teague cites 988 integration, crisis responders and resilience hubs as safety priorities
Summary
Mayor Bruce Teague said the city is integrating mobile crisis response with dispatch to divert appropriate 911 calls to the 988 crisis hotline, credited new mental-health liaisons and a cold-responder police model, and announced resilience‑hub pilots and a $1,000,000 award to the free medical clinic to expand capacity.
Mayor Bruce Teague used the State of the City address to describe steps the city has taken to expand crisis response, non-police options and resilience for extreme weather.
Teague said the city is working with Johnson County to integrate mobile crisis response into emergency dispatch so that certain 911 calls are diverted to the 988 crisis hotline. He credited two…
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