DC Mayor MurielBowser withdraws 911 call center nominee following rare city council rebuke
Karima Holmes, Bowser’s nominee to lead the D.C. Office of Unified Communications, faced an uphill battle to secure the Cabinet position as several city council members announced they would vote against her appointment, pointing to her past tenure as the head of the call center. Holmes led the OUC from 2015 to 2021 before stepping down amid accusations that she bungled emergency situations by struggling to locate callers.
Councilman Charles Allen was among the first to come out against Holmes’s nomination, pointing to recent incidents in which scrambled communications from inside the emergency call center resulted in delayed responses. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson quickly followed suit, announcing he would also vote against Holmes’s nomination.
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