Beyond the very real and much more important toll on the community in terms of lives lost & threats to public safety . . . Here's another update and legal bills mounting for taxpayers . . . Check-it:
Kansas City and the Kansas City Police Department will pay $2 million each to settle a lawsuit filed by a Prairie Village man who claims his wife died five years ago because police and fire department dispatchers mishandled a 911 call. The agencies also agreed to evaluate the 911 system regularly going forward.
The City Council’s finance committee on Tuesday recommended that the full council approve the city’s half of the $4 million settlement at its regular weekly meeting on Thursday.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Woman's death after 911 response errors prompts Kansas City to pay up. Will system change?
When a 40-year-old Prairie Village woman had a heart attack and collapsed, her 8-year-old son called 911. The errors that followed left her brain dead.
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