New 911 service across state aims to protect the disabled
Services are being set up throughout Illinois under a new "premise alert program" that allows families to contact their local police or fire department and submit information about someone who may need special attention in an emergency.
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Services are being set up throughout Illinois under a new “premise alert program” that allows families to contact their local police or fire department and submit information about someone who may need special attention in an emergency: a child with autism, a parent with Alzheimer’s, a teenager who can’t hear.
The program, signed into law Aug. 28, says that if a 911 call center has the proper technology, it must accept information on people with disabilities and share that information with police, fire- fighters and paramedics in an emergency.
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