More than a year after NBC Bay Area filed a public records request seeking the emails of the former leader behind California’s long delayed, half-billion-dollar “Next Generation 911” system, the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) has yet to release a single message sent or received by the project’s previous architect. 

The request – filed in October of 2024 – sought two weeks of emails from Budge Currier, the former Assistant Director of Public Safety Communications, who had recently left Cal OES under circumstances that remain unclear.

NBC Bay Area was investigating a number of issues reported by sources concerning the state’s Next Generation 911 system and requested the emails in hopes of shedding light on Currier’s departure from Cal OES and the oversight of the massive

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