Boundary County sheriff blocks anonymous calls after abuse surge
BONNERS FERRY — In response to a wave of harassment targeting its non-emergency dispatch line, the Boundary County Sheriff’s Office adopted a policy May 12 to block calls from anonymous numbers.
According to officials, the dispatch center has fielded nearly 100 calls containing threats, profanity and derogatory name-calling aimed at dispatchers and law enforcement over the past several days. Many of these calls have originated from outside the county and even out of state, and efforts to trace them have been hampered by the use of blocked caller IDs.
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