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County official reports lobbying on proposed PSAP bill, urges careful local governance design
Summary
A county official told supervisors Feb. 10 they traveled to Des Moines to lobby on a proposed bill that would replace 9-1-1 service boards with local emergency management commissions and create a single PSAP per county; the official warned against designating elected sheriffs as the automatic PSAP lead.
A county official reported to the Jackson County Board of Supervisors that they were in Des Moines to lobby over a bill proposal that would restructure 9-1-1 governance in the state.
The visitor said the draft would replace existing 9-1-1 service boards with local emergency management commissions and create a single public-safety answering point (PSAP)…
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