9-1-1 Goes to Washington (#NENAGTW) brings you and hundreds of your fellow 9-1-1 professionals together with government leaders in our nation's capital to address today's most pressing 9-1-1 and emergency communications issues. #NENAGTW is the only event where you learn about the policy challenges facing 9-1-1 and then take immediate action to address them through dialogue with your elected and appointed officials.

#NENAGTW offers you a significant opportunity to shape the nation’s emergency communications policy agenda. In order to address the needs of today’s 9-1-1 systems while laying the regulatory and legislative groundwork for next-generation systems, you must understand today’s 9-1-1 policy landscape and take an active role in educating policymakers to shape the laws and rules of tomorrow. At #NENAGTW, you will do both. Join us for a dynamic, interactive program where you receive:

The inside information you need to shape the 9-1-1 and emergency communications agendas for the Administration and Congress;

• Critical knowledge of federal and state 9-1-1, homeland security, and emergency communications legislation, regulation, and policy initiatives; and
• An opportunity to speak directly with members of Congress, administration officials, and key staff to make your voice heard on behalf of the entire 9-1-1 community. 

Click here to register, here to book your room at our overflow hotel, and here to learn more. 

Together, URISA, NENA, and NSGIC are pleased to announce the third-annual Location, Enterprise Addressing, and Public Safety (LEAP) Conference taking place virtually February 27-29, 2024. To celebrate our collaborative efforts, members of all three associations are eligible for discounted registration rates.

Nearly 30 speakers are on the program and sessions will cover these important topics:

• Moving Public Safety Forward
• Expanding Location Data and Tools
• Local Government Addressing Case Studies
• NENA GIS Updates
• Where are we going and how do we get there?
• Transforming Addressing in Local Government
• Building & Operating Enterprise Address Databases
• Special Event Location Intelligence
• Cartography Basics 

The cost for URISA, NENA, and NSGIC members to attend is only $150; the nonmember registration fee is $250. Get a group of staff members – as many as you like – to view the proceedings together (perhaps in a conference room with snacks!) for the affordable member price of $275, nonmember price of $375.

Visit the LEAP conference website to learn more and make your plans to attend!

Hurricane Ian, the third-costliest weather disaster on record, caused more than two-million power outages in Southwest Florida alone. Internet access was hard-hit in Fort Myers, where there was a near-total blackout of internet connectivity. This webinar dives into the details of technology disaster preparedness for 9-1-1 system infrastructure and how your agency can best prepare for natural disasters. Attend to learn:

• How to create a detailed Technology Disaster Recovery Plan;
• Critical infrastructure grouped and prioritized based on technological and operational needs; and
• Lessons from Hurricane Ian on response and recovery.

We have changed webinar platforms and added new attendee benefits!
NENA is excited to be using a new online-learning platform for our #WebinarWednesday offerings. On the day of the webinar, you will need to be logged in to your nena.org account, so please note your username and password. Once logged in, you can access the live webinar via the link in your registration-confirmation email.

Once the webinar concludes, you will be able to complete a knowledge check and fill out an evaluation to receive a certificate of completion.

If you can't attend the live broadcast, then you can watch the webinar on-demand and/or download presentation materials via the same link from your registration email the day after the live webinar airs.

Can't attend on the 31st? Register now and watch later via the link in your registration-confirmation email.

Presenter: JC Meyer, ENP – Fort Myers (FL) Department of Public Safety

CEUs: Attend this webinar and receive one-half ENP re-certification point.

Webinar Access Info: Live and on-demand webinar link provided automatically via email upon registration.

Questions? Contact Lisa Fulton with the NENA Education team.

The NENA Spoofing Mitigation Information Document describes the application of the Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (SHAKEN) caller identity spoofing mitigation framework and SIP Resource-Priority Header and Priority header signing/verification procedures to 9 1 1 calls and emergency callbacks in an end-state Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) (i.e., all-Internet Protocol [IP]) environment as well as caller identity spoofing mitigation mechanisms applicable to an all-Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and mixed TDM/IP environment, with a focus on associated operational impacts and considerations. This Information Document also describes location spoofing mitigation in an end-state NG9-1-1 environment.

Members of the Working Group can download the document and submit comments by going here and selecting Add a Comment from the Edit icon drop-down menu. All others can download the document and submit comments by going here and then selecting Add a Comment from the Document Actions icon drop-down menu. Please complete all requested data and click Save, or, if submitting multiple comments, click Save and Add Another.

If you are providing editorial comments, such as corrections to typos, grammatical errors, style/numbering errors, or incorrect references/links to documents, please document them under one comment and list the page and line number for each (ex. Page 22, Line 761: Correct moist to most). If the correction is within a table, please provide the table name and page number of the error and your recommended change.

All comments are due by February 19, 2024. You may contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns.

Thanks to you, telecommunicator reclassification legislation is gaining momentum in Congress! Senators have introduced the Enhancing First Response Act (S. 3556), a companion bill to the House's 911 SAVES Act (H.R. 6319).

Click here now to help NENA fight for reclassification by urging your members of Congress in both houses to support these bills! It'll take less than five minutes of your time.

This legislative effort would reclassify Public Safety Telecommunicators as a "Protective Service Occupation" in the federal government's Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. The SOC currently categorizes 9-1-1 professionals as "Office and Administrative Support," which is based on an outdated, misinformed view of the essential, life-saving work performed by telecommunicators and it must be changed.

Click here to ask your Representative and Senators to support reclassification and help the 100,000 telecommunicators in our country get the respect they deserve.