The Chattahoochee River 911 Authority, also known as ChatComm, is the

public-safety answering point A public-safety answering point (PSAP), sometimes called public-safety access point, is a call center where emergency/non-emergency calls (like police, fire brigade, ambulance) initiated by any mobile or landline subscriber are terminated. It can ...

for all

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s to 9-1-1 in

Sandy Springs Sandy Springs is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia and an inner ring suburb of Atlanta. The city's population was 108,080 at the 2020 census, making it Georgia's seventh-largest city. It is the site of several corporate headquarters, i ...

Johns Creek Johns Creek is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population was 82,453. The city is a northeastern suburb of Atlanta. History In the early 19th century, the Johns Creek area was dotted with ...

, Dunwoody, and

Brookhaven, Georgia Brookhaven is a city in the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta that is located in western DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, directly northeast of Atlanta. On July 31, 2012, Brookhaven was approved in a referendum to become DeKalb County's 11th c ...

in the northern part of

metro Atlanta Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Alpharetta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the ...

. The ChatComm 911 dispatch center is a public/private partnership between the cities and iXP Corporation, headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Operations

Begun in 2009, the call center in Sandy Springs began operating on August 31, and also included the then-new city of Johns Creek. Dunwoody joined in 2011, making it the second multi-county 911 system to span the county line from

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into

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(the other being the city of

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

, which is also in both counties). The city of Brookhaven, also in DeKalb County, joined in 2014.Brookhaven announces switch to private 9-1-1 emergency dispatch service
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of Sandy Springs and the southeastern city limit of Johns Creek.

References

Public-private partnerships

External links

iXP Corporation websiteChatComm website
Sandy Springs, Georgia Dunwoody, Georgia Brookhaven, Georgia 2009 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)