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Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek

Monday, February 25, 2013

Ground Breaks on Hennepin County's $30 Million Emergency Comm Center

Sheriff says building is not just a need but a critical need, predicts Hennepin County's emergency communications would be in jeopardy without it.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Jay Corn
  • Monday, February 25

After committing more than $30 million to the project last December, a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday morning marked the start of meaningful construction on Hennepin County's new dispatch facility and emergency communications center. The building will be the most advanced of its kind in the upper Midwest, according to county officials, when it is completed sometime during the second half of 2014—with technological capabilities that will enable citizens anywhere in Hennepin County to text, e-mail and send video to emergency dispatchers in real time.  "This is an important day for Hennepin County, and I don't want to understate that at all," Sheriff Rich Stanek said. "The residents expect 911 to work every time without fail and without …

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Millions For New Hennepin County 911 Facility In Plymouth Included In Bonding Bill (in Plymouth Patch) and UNION TO PROTEST DECISION TO USE A LAW-BREAKING ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR ON THE HENNEPIN COUNTY 911 DISPATCH CENTER (in Golden Valley Patch)

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rob_h78

6:02 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013

I would urge them to put up a sign stating "UN Drone Launch Facility" so the Tin Foil Hat Crowd would have a place to meetup.   more ›

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Potential Gun Reforms: Stricter Background Checks and Greater Access to Mental Health Records

Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek: “The severely mentally ill should never have access to guns. We have an epidemic of untreated mental illness in the U.S. and right here in Minnesota.”

The following was released by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office: Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association, Hennepin County Judge Jay Quam and a coalition of community partners that included advocates for the mentally ill and state lawmakers gathered in St. Paul Wednesday to discuss potential reforms to address concerns about the role of mental illness and extreme gun violence.  Among the proposed reforms: strengthen existing gun background check laws, provide greater access to mental health records for law enforcement and address gaps in providing services and resources to Minnesotans who live with untreated mental illness.  “We have an access problem,” said Sheriff Stanek, “The severely mentally ill …

JoJo

3:38 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013

To dovetail on what Rick is saying... Not JUST that the shooters were mentally ill. The larger similarity of the shooters, the similarity that allows us to put the Columbine shooters and others in the same group as these obviously mentally ill men, is that they were all on multiple phychotropic drugs. Dr Karen Effrem, several years ago, collected and studied the evidence on violent crowd/school …   more ›

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