Designer Laws, usually attached to a girl's name, are a regrettable trend. They rely on emotional blackmail of both citizens and legislators. There are far too many laws on the books of cities, states and the federal government as it is. Monuments belong in cemeteries.
The law will protect families
An assertion made without proof. And why only families? What about individuals? What about roommates who are merely friends or acquaintances? Mentioning families is more emotional blackmail.
By making 911 more accessible in buildings with multiple phone lines
But 911 is not being made 'more accessible' (another media cliche). This does nothing to increase the availability of 911 operators or responders - not that such a thing was needed.
Their oldest daughter called 911 for help but all of the calls failed because the phone required her to dial a "9" first. It's a tragedy Kari's family never wants to see happen again.
Um, isn't the 'tragedy' the attack on Kari Hunt by her husband? A failure to successfully call for help is unfortunate but they're putting the cart before the horse here.
After that buildings will have two years to make sure 911 calls 911 without an extra "9" needed.
As before, abysmal writing. Buildings will have two years? Buildings are inanimate objects. They couldn't comply even if they wanted to. Because they are inanimate objects.
With or without Melanie Torre's hacktastic prose, this law is the worst sort of control freakery with the usual fig leaf of DO SOMETHING! And, as usual, government's virtue signaling costs them nothing but compliance by landlords et al will be cumbersome, potentially expensive and almost certainly inconsequential.
Either it’s blackmail — or it’s a shame is a shame, and this is one of the few remaining ways that we can recognize a shame, by putting a name upon it.
And that doesn’t excuse not looking at content. After all, even Kari wouldn’t want ineffectual or counterproductive nonsense associated with her name.
It’s going to look different to do this on a “punch 9 to get out” system than on a “punch 7 to get out” system.
A middle approach might be to require large stickers that explain how to call 911 on phones where it won’t work directly. And maybe some kind of tax allowance to procure systems where dialing 911 will work directly.
I put in a VOIP system for a Catholic school. The second week of school, they had the sherriffs ou5 3 times, because on the old system you dialed 9, 911 and on the new system you could dial that, or just 911. The sheriff was going to find them $500 for any future mis dials as the sheriff has to send someone out regardless. They asked us to put it back to the old way. No more mis dials.