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The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services 911 Advisory Board meeting abruptly ended Thursday after it was hijacked by explicit content. It was one of the technology-related battles state workers faced that day.
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An unidentified party disrupted the meeting’s audio and video feed with the material. The board ended the meeting within one minute of the disruption.
CalOES is investigating the incident to determine how the meeting was interrupted and implement appropriate prevention measures.
Board members were meeting to get an update on the Next Generation 911 project and discuss a study about dispatcher staffing and retention, according to the meeting agenda.
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The 1:30 p.m. meeting utilized Microsoft Teams. Microsoft products have experienced issues Thursday, including an Outlook blackout that caused many state workers to go without email. Users across the country were affected — not just California state workers.
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The outage was due to unavailable servers. Additional platforms potentially affected, according to Microsoft, included Teams, Copilot 365, Power BI and more.
“We determined the (outage) isn’t driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable; straining the remaining infrastructure,” Microsoft wrote on social media.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to The Sacramento Bee’s inquiry. It is unclear if CalOES’ incident is related to the outage.
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