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LA County moves forward on re-imagining 9-1-1 call-in system
Los Angeles Sep 30, 2020
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(File photo) Los Angeles County continued its push Tuesday to re-think the 9-1-1 system, propelled by a care-first, jails-last approach to emergency calls for service across the region. The Board of Supervisors unanimously directed the Department of Mental Health to begin identifying ways to shift mental-health crisis calls away from law enforcement and toward mental health services personnel. An actual new call system is not imminent. But the action Tuesday did set in motion the design of a new system that […]
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