{"id":356676,"date":"2010-02-22T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2010-02-22T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:17:54","slug":"california-city-to-charge-residents-300-per-911-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/356676","title":{"rendered":"California City To Charge Residents $300 Per 911 Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23001\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/emergency.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency call box\" width=\"225\" align=\"right\" \/>Calling 9-1-1 is no longer a right, it&#8217;s a privilege for those with the means to afford it. The city of Tracy, California will begin charging people $300 when they call 9-1-1 to report a medical emergency. On the bright side, there is a yearly flat rate option. A CBS affiliate <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs13.com\/local\/tracy.911.calls.2.1502690.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year which allows them to call 9-1-1 as many times as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Residents will soon receive the form in the mail where they&#8217;ll be able to make their selection. No date has been set for when the charges will go into effect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling 9-1-1 is no longer a right, it&#8217;s a privilege for those with the means to afford it. The city of Tracy, California will begin charging people $300 when they call 9-1-1 to report a medical emergency. On the bright side, there is a yearly flat rate option. A CBS affiliate reports: Tracy residents will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}