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Eric Nickel, the director of university recreation, won the Dolley Madison Award, which recognizes a member of the Hart School of Hospitality, Sport and Recreation Management for their time, talent
Analog backup planned Longer term, SVRIA is looking into building an analog radio system to serve as a backup for its digital system. Nickel said the backup system could be.
By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
May 12, 2021
| 8:13 p.m.
Eighteen years after giving up an engineering career and getting hired as a firefighter, Todd Tuggle has been chosen to lead the Santa Maria Fire Department.
Todd Tuggle
On Wednesday, City Manager Jason Stilwell announced that he had named Tuggle as fire chief, effective last Saturday.
A badge-pinning ceremony is scheduled during the City Council meeting on Tuesday.
It’s a different career than Tuggle had after graduating from Cal Poly in 1996 with an engineering degree, but he hasn’t looked back.
“I’ve never doubted it for a moment,” he said of the switch. “It’s been the most fulfilling, amazing, challenging (job). It’s never been dull from day one.”
As a result, dispatchers had to do extra work to establish talk groups, Nickel said. Any agency that switches away from encryption while all of its neighbors encrypt would face the same challenge.
Furthermore, when an agency with encrypted radios communicates with one with nonencrypted radios, the communication defaults to nonencrypted communication and, as a result, the agencies fall out of compliance with the DOJ order when personal information is transmitted, Nickel said.
While Nickel said that the choice of whether or not to encrypt is ultimately up to each individual agency, his agency has been working to ensure that these decisions do not compromise the abilities of police departments throughout the county to work together.