Posted on 11/25/2025 6:36:57 AM PST by blueplum
California’s move to abandon a plan revamping the state’s antiquated 911 system, after spending hundreds of millions on the project, has critics fuming....
But after spending around $450 million to build out the system, Cal OES halted the project last year due to “operational difficulties,” citing issues with the regional approach and stating it would pivot back toward the statewide approach....
Several of the four technology companies the state originally contracted with to develop the regional 911 system have accused officials of failing to effectively manage taxpayer dollars.
Redesigning and installing the new statewide technology cost “hundreds of millions ... to actually redo what they’ve already built,” Jeff Schlueter, the chief operating officer of Synergem Technologies, told the outlet....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
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I call them “pocket-liner” projects. And it isn’t our pockets.
Many of the delays, of course, stemmed from changes introduced by the state after the systems were put in place.
Now it sounds like they want to dump the firms that actually built working systems and start over. Ludicrous.
Chump change.
That doesn’t even pay for a 1/4 mile of high speed rail track to nowhere.
Success doesn’t feed the beast. Nothing designed by the state is supposed to succeed or the money spigot gets turned off.
For a bureaucrat, there is no money in saying YES.
EC
Another Dcemocrat “Houdini” scam.
Now you see the money - Now it’s gone.....
$450,000,000 on 911 and what racial amber alerts?
Where dies the money go? Activists in groups that just got a Cal state degree some inane subject with no clue on business or 911 emergency services communicatiin issues?
Strange how every California project ends up being a kickback program huh Moe.
decades ago, the state of colorado wanted to tie all k-12, colleges, and local governments to the internet ... they put some clueless DEI political flunky guy in charge [b4 DEI was a word], who promptly contracted out the whole thing to one of the then regional bell operating companies [US West Communications i think, subsequently undergoing countless name changes] ... furthermore, colorado mandated that this would be the one and only effort and any other effort would be illegal ...
said contractor attempted to exclusively use a new internet technology [ATM - asynchronous transmission mode] that promptly failed throughout the world and faded from existence ...
in the mean time, several colorado universities and local Federal labs quietly got together and formed a consortium that proceeded to successfully and cheaply build and operate the core infrastructure for such a network under the guise that it was just a small, temporary, experimental network for a few universities to play around with, so nothing for the official bigs to worry about ...
pretty soon everybody and his uncle’s brother wanted connected to this network, and it became so well established that the colorado state government through up their hands and quietly shut down their official network effort that never got off the ground anyway ...
this network still exists and is called the Front Range Gigapop:
Theft by bureaucrat.
by California Standards the program was wildly successful, lot’s of the right people got paid a lot of money.
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