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Sheriff warns county phone outages are dropping admin calls; commissioners consider emergency replacement
Summary
The sheriff told commissioners county administrative lines have been failing about half the time for 10 days, dropping some life‑safety-related calls. Commissioners discussed emergency procurement and switching to cloud SIP trunks or other alternate routes to restore reliable service.
Adams County officials described intermittent failures of administrative phone lines lasting about 10 days, a problem the sheriff called an emergency because some medical or alarm calls have dropped and did not dispatch responders.
The sheriff (Speaker 8) told the board, "Someone's fallen, someone's passed out, and they call us and it just drops," and…
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