Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk on Monday defended the three-day suspension that her interim chief of the county’s 911 call center gave the dispatcher who took the emergency call from slain student Brittany Zimmermann’s cell phone last spring.
Former 911 dispatcher Rita Gahagan now has another county job, but was suspended last week.
Earlier this year, county officials said after an investigation that the call, apparently made sometime before Zimmermann was killed in her campus-area apartment, was mishandled. After Zimmermann’s minute-long call disconnected, Gahagan didn’t send police or call the number ba