ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
NY 911 Retirement is an independently organized, dispatcher-led campaign created by Casey Howe, a New York 911 supervisor who has worked full-time in emergency communications since 2009.
PUBLIC SERVICE
911Casey's family has served the public for three generations in law enforcement. Casey was also a New York State EMT for more than 15 years, a volunteer firefighter, and an EMS leader for more than 10 years.
Years of 911, fire, and EMS work took a toll. Casey had to step back from some volunteer work. That experience now guides a simple goal: help New Yorkers understand 911 work and protect the next generation of dispatchers.
TRANSPARENCY & PRIVACY
The short version: The campaign discloses who pays its monetary costs, its limited early workplace-resource use, Casey's potential interest, what the website does and does not receive, and how it counts aggregate visits and broad action totals.
The campaign does not receive or save the name, county, ZIP code, role, or letter you enter into the generator. You decide whether to copy that information and submit it elsewhere. Government websites and other services have their own privacy rules.
The campaign does not solicit monetary donations, run advertising trackers, build visitor profiles, sell information, or claim nonprofit status.
If you email or message the campaign, it receives the address or profile you use and the message you choose to send. A story requires separate approval of its exact edited public version. A public support identity requires verified support evidence and documented permission for the exact use.
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As of August 24, 2026, Casey reports personally paying approximately $70 in direct expenses that can be attributed exclusively to the campaign: $52 for the campaign inbox and email service and approximately $18 for domain registration. He also reports spending approximately $200 on ChatGPT, which he uses for both campaign and unrelated work. Because no reliable campaign-only allocation exists, the ChatGPT amount is disclosed separately and is not included in the approximately $70 direct-expense total. Volunteer campaign hours are not quantified because the work is interwoven with other activities rather than performed in reliably separable campaign-only blocks.
Earlier in the effort, Casey initially used his government work email, used agency letterhead a few times, did some campaign work during workplace downtime, and printed approximately 10 campaign posters on a workplace printer. The posters were placed in employee and public workplace areas. Casey reports that Sheriff Scott Cicirello verbally permitted these limited uses and verbally expressed support. Separately, Sheriff Cicirello's verified signed letter to Governor Hochul supports A.9162A/S.7635B. An accessible text transcript is available on the Support page.
Those facts do not make this a Sheriff's Office campaign. NY 911 Retirement is independently organized. It does not claim formal monetary funding, ownership, operation, or sponsorship by the Allegany County Sheriff's Office; the limited workplace-resource uses reported above are disclosed separately.