‘Is there anything Gavin hasn’t destroyed?’ California 911 system upgrade reportedly a ‘di

‘Is there anything Gavin hasn’t destroyed?’ California 911 system upgrade reportedly a ‘disaster’

California’s emergency telephone service has become another victim of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s dismal leadership.

After seven years and nearly $500 million spent, California’s 911 emergency system overhaul is a failure, as Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, reported.

“During his first year in office, the governor confidently projected that he would replace the state’s emergency call system within three years, a goal that officials previously estimated would cost $132 million. But nearly seven years later, the state has spent more than $450 million on a regionalized ‘Next Generation’ digital system that suffered such appalling failures and disruptions during its initial rollout that the Newsom administration scrapped it entirely,” Rufo noted in a City-Journal report.



“Could you imagine making the scariest phone call of your life and thinking no one is coming?” a whistleblower said, according to the report.

“After a series of warnings and delays, in November 2025, the Newsom administration officially terminated the regional approach. In a postmortem report, Cal OES indicated that the regional rollout overwhelmed dispatch centers and was ultimately too fragile and risky to work,” the report continued.

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