A public safety commission investigating the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting found that a poorly organized 911 system delayed the police response. According to commission chair and Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, the multi-agency system routes emergency calls through different dispatch centers, causing significant delays. This transfer process meant it took 69 seconds for the first sheriff’s deputies to be alerted, by which point 23 people had already been shot. The article also notes that the family of victim Jaime Guttenberg filed a lawsuit against the FBI for failing to act on previous tips about the shooter.
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Originally published by WLRN Public Media | Nov 13, 2018
