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FCC Blue Alert Warns Cell Phone Users of Threats to Law Enforcement
ByAdminThe Federal Communications Commission has expanded the US’s emergency alert systems by adding a new alert option dubbed Blue Alert. With Blue Alert, both local and state-level authorities can push out notifications that warn the public to “threats to law enforcement.” In explaining this, the FCC says the authorities are able to push out Blue…
Coast Guard Extends Mobile Connectivity to Distressed Mariners with ‘i911’
ByAdminThe U.S. Coast Guard is taking advantage of phone-tracking services to locate distressed mariners up to 20 nautical miles offshore through a mobile app that acts like 911 emergency service. The “i911” app is currently being used in the Pacific Northwest and has the clearance to be implemented at Coast Guard districts across the country. While the guard…
Special Operations Seeks Way to Override Broadcasters
ByAdminThe U.S. Special Operations Command wants to find technology that would allow it to locate AM and FM radio signals in a specific area and then override those signals to send propaganda messages. The SOCOM solicitation, posted last month, calls for “sources to provide a radio broadcast system capable of searching for and acquiring every…
San Jacinto Prankster Arrested Again
ByAdminIrene Marie Levy, a stay-at-home mom from San Jacinto, California, doesn’t like cops or firemen. The 31-year-old San Jacinto woman was behind bars for a second time after allegedly pointing a laser at a firefighter behind the wheel of a fire engine. Irene Levy’s colorful history makes her no stranger to her community or local…
Brown Signs Law Rescuing Funds for Radio Network
ByAdminA radio network linking Los Angeles County’s 34,000 first responders can move forward under a new state law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The bill, authored by Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, helps save more than $270 million in federal grants for the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System, or LA-RICS. The funds were in…
Mexico Busts Drug Cartels’ Private Communications Networks
ByAdminThe Mexican military has recently broken up several secret telecommunications networks that were built and controlled by drug cartels so they could coordinate drug shipments, monitor their rivals and orchestrate attacks on the security forces. A network that was dismantled just last week provided cartel members with cellphone and radio communications across four northeastern states….

