Laws
These laws protect the privacy of an individual
What are confidentiality laws?
What is BOLO?
These are the physical workstations where computers and phones are located
What is consoles?
This allows targeted calls to be made to specific regions and areas
What is reverse 911?
Utilizing lights and sirens
What is emergency response?
This law ensures equal access to 911 to EVERYONE and requires PST positions to have access to a TDD/TTY.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Emergency medical care involving invasive procedures and administered by paramedics
What is ALS?
These are mounted in response vehicles
What is mobile radios?
These give audible alerts to phones like AMBER alerts
What is Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)?
Handles non-criminal matters
What is Civil Units?
This law provides data privacy and safeguards PHI
What is HIPPA?
A device that allows firefighters to breathe fresh oxygen while in hazardous environments
What is Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)?
Alerts residents to stay in their homes, lock their doors, and take cover. Given during active assailant situations or hazardous material release
What is Shelter-In-Place?
This is administered by the FBI
What is National Crime Information Center (NCIC?)
This encourages callers to provide details about a situation
What is open-ended questions?
This law requires public schools to have silent panic button
What is Alyssa's law?
These trailers are equipped with technologies like radios to provide more versatile communication options in the field
What is Emergency Deployable Interoperable Communications System (EDICS?)
These are portable and can be carried around, but covers less area.
What is handheld radios?
This system gives the phone number associated with the incoming call
What is Automatic Number Identification (ANI)?
These are statements that can be proven to be true, based on observable, concrete evidence and not subject to interpretation
What is fact?
The Denise Amber Lee Act gave us this statute, and mandates all Florida dispatchers are certified through FDOH
What is statute 401.465?
Groups of trained PSTs sent to disaster zones to bolster overwhelmed ECCs
What is Telecommunicator Emergency Response Task Force (TERT)?
Broadcasted for missing elderly persons with dementia or other mental diseases
What is Silver Alert?
This radio system gives communication to participating agencies and has high coverage
What is Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS)?
These are conclusions drawn from available evidence and facts by making deductions or educated guesses based on information on hand.