Children dialing 911 causes backlog at Travis Co. dispatch

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Travis County Sheriff’s Office emergency dispatchers are seeing a dangerous trend: children dialing their 911 line.
Dispatchers say many of the calls are coming from children who are playing with smartphones and they are cutting into response times. Now, they are asking parents to step in and stop it from happening.
“You can hear a child and you can kind of tell the difference between a child playing and maybe, like, a woman screaming,” said TCSO Comm