Text-to-911 purchase OK’d by county

lives, provide language access capabilities and give us all a little extra peace of mind in a tumultuous world.”

Within hours after DeRiggi-Whitton filed the legislative proposal, the county administration filed a $106,417 purchase order for Nassau’s text-to-911 custom interface with the Intergraph Corporation.

Text-to-911 has already been implemented in numerous counties in the state, including neighboring Suffolk County.

Nassau County is required to implement the 911 text services by Sept. 15 due to a May lawsuit settlement that alleged the county violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The lawsuit was filed in January 2017 by Disability Rights New York who alleged that the county’s 911 services violated the act as it failed to provide accessible options for individuals with hearing loss.

“911 must be available and accessible to everyone,” Disability Rights New York Executive Director Timothy Clune said in a press release. “Without text-to-911, those who are unable to orally communicate their need for emergency services are left without critical assistance when they need it most. In 2023, this technology should have already been implemented statewide.” record.

Due to the upcoming deadline, the Nassau County Legislature is on schedule to approve the proposal at its next meeting on Monday.

The Board of Education said the student’s guilt had been proven and the suspension was reasonable based on the misconduct.

Education Law states that “no student may be suspended in excess of five school days unless the student and person in parental relation to the student have an opportunity for a fair hearing, upon reasonable notice, at which the student has the right to be represented by counsel, to question witnesses who testify against the student, and to present witnesses and other evidence on his or her own behalf.”

At the hearing, the student admitted to walking one of the intruders to a room but said, “If I went anywhere, if I told anybody, if I, you know, escaped from them per se, they might have tried to hurt me later on, like, they had said they would. And they told me to bring him to the locker room. I didn’t go on my own will.”

Thompson said during the hearing that the student’s claim was “not believable.”

Rosa wrote in her ruling that Thompson’s findings are “grounded in unsupported assumptions about what a reasonable student should have done rather than the evidence in the record.”

She also wrote at the end of her ruling that the student was under no legal duty to inform an adult of the non-students presence. And that, “his culpability in this incident was minimal. His escorting of a single non-student under threat of violence pales in comparison to respondent’s inability to prevent, or discover, the unauthorized entry of nine non-students into one of its high schools.”