So typical: California blows $450 million on failed 911 fix

When he became governor in 2019, Gavin Newsom promised to upgrade the state’s decrepit 911 system, which is a relic from the 1970s. So much has changed technologically that it’s “astounding” that California emergency services rely on “analog systems designed decades ago,” he said per a Sacramento Bee report. Newsom was correct to pinpoint this infrastructure problem in a state plagued by natural disasters. The governor proposed a Next Generation syst