charles fivecoat is wasco polole chief. he's recently noticed major improvements in how responsive state contractors have been when new 911 problems pop up. your reporting probably is what's causing these vendors to show up on my door every week. chief fivecoat is referring to our series of reports late last year revealing major public safety concerns with cal oes new half billion dollar nextgen 911 network. the tuolumne county sheriff's office near yosemite was the first to get the new system records from their department show. within a year of launching, tuolumne experienced a failure a month, which included a 12 hour 911 outage. new records we obtained show cal oes find gia more than $132,000 last july for call routing problems and failing to provide a report on what went wrong for one of tuolumne e's outages. as our investigative unit filed more records requests, we found dozens of similar concerns at other 911 centers across the state, including at desert hot springs pd in the coachella valley and now wasco. given the