Interoperability

Interoperability

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2002 State Legislation and Executive Orders on Interoperability

California
A.B. 2018 (Chaptered by Secretary of State 09-29-02)
Provides that the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee shall have primary responsibility for developing and implementing a statewide integrated public safety communication system for state government agencies that facilitates interoperability with local and federal agencies.

Indiana
H.B. 1001 / Public Law 123 (Signed by Governor 03-26-02)
Authorizes bonds and creates service charges to fund an integrated wireless public safety communications system.

Maryland
H.B. 1265 / Chapter 277 (Signed by Governor 04-25-02)
Establishes the State Commission on Public Safety Technology and Critical Infrastructure to ensure that communication and information management systems maintained by public safety and other governmental units are compatible and interoperable.

Minnesota
H.B. 2515 / Chapter 401 (Signed by Governor 05-22-02)
Authorizes county public debt to design, construct, and acquire public safety communications system infrastructure and equipment. Creates first and second phase of region-wide public safety radio communications system and planning committee to develop a project plan.

Montana
E.O. 14-02 (Filed with Secretary of State 06-18-02)
Reestablishes the Montana Public Safety Communications Council that will serve as the Statewide Interoperability Executive Council.

New Hampshire
S.B. 441 / Chapter 220 (Signed by Governor 05-17-02)
Establishes a committee to study the interoperability of state agency communications.

Oregon
E.O. 17 (Filed with Secretary of State 09-10-02)
Creates the State Interoperability Council. Provides direction for matters related to planning, designing and implementing guidelines, best practices and standard approaches to address Oregon's public safety communications interoperability issues.

West Virginia
E.O. 5 (Introduced 08-09-02)
Creates the State Interoperability Executive Committee.

NCSL Meetings on Interoperability

Antiterrorism Technology
Spring 2002
New Orleans, Louisiana

Emergency Communications
December 2001
Washington, D.C.

Resources on Interoperability

National Institute of Justice, Can We Talk? Public Safety and the Interoperability
Challenge. Washington, D.C.: NIJ, 2000.
http://www.agileprogrogram.org/

National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center, National Institute of Justice, Understanding Wireless Communications in Public Safety. A Guidebook to Technology, Issues, Planning, and Management. Washington, D.C.: NIJ, 2000.
http://www.nlectc.org/

National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Wireless Communications and Interoperability Among State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies. Washington, D.C.: USDOJ, 1998.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/

National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Center & U.S. Department of Justice, "Why Can't We Talk? When Lives are at Stake" ( a video), Washington, D.C., 1998.
http://www.nlectc.org/

Advanced Generation of Interoperability for Law Enforcement (AGILE)
http://www.nlectc.org/agile/

Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International, Inc., The Benefits of a Project 25 Trunked Radio System, Daytona Beach, Florida, 2000.
http://apcointl.org/

International City/County Management Association, Information and Communications Technology for Public Safety. Washington, D.C.: ICMA, 2000.
http://www.icma.org/go.cfm

Public Safety Wireless Network, Public Safety and Wireless Communications Interoperability
Fairfax, Virginia, 1999.
http://www.pswn.gov/

Public Safety Wireless Network, Fire and EMS Communications Interoperability, Fairfax, Virginia, 1999.
http://www.pswn.gov/

Public Safety Wireless Network, 800 MHz Study, Fairfax, Virginia, 1998.
http://www.pswn.gov/