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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: California wastes $450 million on new 911 system state is now ditching
Description: California invested nearly half a billion dollars to upgrade its outdated 911 network — promising faster response times, better location tracking, and modern features like text-to-911.Instead? The project collapsed.System failures. Dropped emergency calls. A design no other state used. And now, taxpayers are left with the bill as the state prepares to start over.