Luleå municipality receives criticism for mass mailings about security alarms



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According to social director Gabriella Sjöström, the problems are due to a software update that went wrong, causing delays of up to 24 hours for the 1,600 people in the home care service and nursing homes that have security alarms.

Standby time: 24 hours

She believes the vendor is working full time to resolve the issues.

– I take what happened seriously. A 24-hour wait time is not acceptable when security alarms are to provide security for the elderly. We also have a user who did not contact us. We hope that the issues will be resolved as soon as possible before the weekend. But for the sake of safety, we’ve called in additional staff to work on the issue.

Mass emails are criticized

The administration learned of the problems on Thursday night and came out with a mass mailing at 11:20 p.m. and that action has been criticized because it has scared parts of the public, who also received the alarm via text message.

– We have received comments that we go out to the public, our citizens, with information that security alarms do not work optimally. There have also been several reminders overnight about it and it was unfortunate and something we’ll go over now. But we took the safe before the unsafe, because we wanted to provide information on all our platforms, says Gabriella sjöström

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