Twitter Messages Raise Questions About Dispatcher

Officials at Louisville’s (Ken.) Metro 911 are investigating a Twitter account apparently created by a dispatcher, and that included postings that were rude and made fun of 911 callers. The account “funny911calls” was recently discovered by a WHAS television reporter, and included posting back to December 2009. The account has now been deleted, but copies of the postings are still floating around the Internet, prompting 911 officials to investigate whether they were posted while the unknown dispatcher was on-duty. While the messages may be rude, officials said they didn’t appear to have violated any privacy laws. However, they are attempting to determine if the tweets were posted while the dispatcher was on-duty, which would be a violation of a “no electronic devices” policy. Read more about the situation here, and read (pdf) some of the tweets here.