California is poised to make one of the most wasteful and irresponsible public safety decisions in recent memory: dismantling a fully built, taxpayer-funded Next Generation 911 (NG911) network and replacing it with a costly, risky single-vendor system. We’ve already paid for this once, and our wallets are not unlimited. This isn’t about fixing something broken, it’s about throwing away a working, proven NG911 system, wasting hundreds of millions more of our hard-earned dollars, and putting lives at risk in the process.

Cal OES, the agency that oversees the 911 system, has admitted the reversal is not for technical reasons. Instead, the agency claims the system is “too complex” without offering any evidence. California is the most populous state in the country, with dense urban centers

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