CA spent over $450M on a new 911 system. It's now scrapping the flawed design

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	CA spent over $450M on a new 911 system. It's now scrapping the flawed design (sacbee.com)
	7 points by svggrfgovgf 211 days ago

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balderdash 211 days ago

This is a story about governments being bad at contracting. If this had been a commercial contract California would be recouping its monies or the vendor would be on the hook to fix it.

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svggrfgovgf 211 days ago

Is this old news? I wasn't able to find anything about it in the LA Times or the SF Chronicle.

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ungreased0675 211 days ago

Smells like fraud and theft.

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