Recent Gov1 News

• Fla. city gives FD permission to add 6 FF positions to reduce mandatory overtime

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  The local union president said that the staffing level has not risen along with Lakeland's population

• Chicago drops lawsuit against police union over vaccine mandate

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  Mayor Lori Lightfoot said her decision to drop the suit comes as more officers comply by reporting their vaccine status

• L.A. City Council votes to ban 'ghost guns'

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  The ordinance bans the possession, sale, purchase, receipt or transportation of firearms without serial numbers

• 2-tiered EMSA response system goes into effect for two Okla. cities

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  An Oklahoma City Council vote also put in place free, in-house paramedic training

• NYC to open nation's first safe injection sites after record-setting year for overdoses

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  The sites will offer clean needles, info about addiction treatment and naloxone

• Oakland mayor seeks to reverse police cuts amid crime spike

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  Oakland is among other liberal cities having to change course amid an increase in violent crime

• N.Y. city to sue state over Peyton Morse's death

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  Watertown suit will aim to recover about $178,000 in expenses incurred by the city for the firefighter’s medical emergency and death

• San Diego to move forward with vax mandate despite impasse with police union

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  City employees who are not in compliance after Wednesday's deadline will receive an advanced notice of termination

• Falck takes over San Diego's ambulance service in smooth transition

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  The company hired many of the paramedics and EMTs who had been working for AMR

• Police Commission backs a 12% increase in LAPD budget for next year

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  The request for more funding comes after the City Council cut $150 million from the LAPD in 2020

• After spate of brazen retail thefts, Calif. governor vows more police funding

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  The state has also created a special task force that works to crack down on retail crimes

• Seattle city leaders debate cuts to police budget before final vote

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  Ultimately, the cuts are far less severe than calls to defund the police by 50% in 2020

• Ill. vaccination mandate spurs 3 volunteer fire districts to decline medical calls

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  "Volunteers are hard to come by": Assistant Fire Chief Travis Buhnerkempe said the definition of a health care worker and rules for them create a staffing concern

• Philly announces COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all city workers

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  More than 25,000 city workers have until mid-January to get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs

• Report: City of Aurora to pay $15M in Elijah McClain case

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  The sum, which was disclosed by three anonymous sources familiar with the matter, would be the largest police-related settlement in Colorado history

• Judge orders Portland to release list of personnel numbers assigned to police officers

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  Officers had obscured their names and badge numbers while responding to protests citing safety and privacy concerns

• Education grants: 15 after-school program funding opportunities

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  After-school and learning enrichment programs have never been more important; these grants can help more families get the help they need

• FedEx mass shooting victims ask city for $2.1M over red flag failure

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  The gunman legally bought the two rifles used in the shooting, despite having a gun taken away from him a year earlier

• Cleveland to buy shuttered high school, convert it into training facility for police, fire, EMS

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  The facility will be used for training exercises and to house a public safety program designed to get area kids interested in becoming first responders

• D.C. extends program that redirects 911 mental crisis calls to social workers

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  Officials hope that by next year mental health professionals could respond to one-third of all mental crisis calls to 911

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