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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 16 days ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

balderdash 16 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.

svggrfgovgf 16 days ago | | [–]

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

ungreased0675 16 days ago | [–]

Smells like fraud and theft.

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