An audit report by the N.Y. State Comptroller’s Office says the s...
An audit report by the N.Y. State Comptroller’s Office says the state legislature’s diversions of money from the state wireless E-911 fund have hurt efforts to spread wireless E-911 location capabilities statewide. The report said 21 of the state’s…
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62 counties in 2003 could locate a wireless user who called 911 -- up from just one county in 2002. But the report said the legislature’s diversion of 41% of wireless E-911 surcharge revenue ($40.8 million) into the state’s general fund Aug. 2002-July 2003 had slowed the project. The report noted pending federal legislation that would stop diversions of wireless E-911 funds if the state wanted federal E-911 support funding.