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County council votes to remove residency requirement for dispatchers

By Patrick Damp

/ CBS Pittsburgh

County council removes residency requirement

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Allegheny County dispatchers and shift commanders are now able to live outside of county lines.

Allegheny County Council voted to remove the residency requirement, effective immediately.

Other county workers now excluded from the residency requirement include registered nurses at the Kane Centers, and healthcare workers at the Allegheny County Jail.

Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.

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