SHANA FAITH MASSACHI, as Administratrix and
Administratrix Ad Prosequendum of the Estate of
Sohayla Massachi, deceased v. CITY OF NEWARK POLICE
DEPARTMENT
A-5252-07T1
08-04-10
We decide a question left unresolved in our prior opinion
in this case, Massachi v. AHL Services, Inc., 396 N.J. Super.
486, 508 (App. Div. 2007), certif. denied, 195 N.J. 419 (2008),
and now decide that N.J.S.A. 52:17C-10, commonly known
as the 9-1-1 immunity statute, does not provide immunity to a
public entity's emergency communications center for its
employees' bungled response to a call for emergency police
assistance. Their negligent mishandling of the call, and
failure to properly dispatch police, contributed to the murder
of a young woman by her former boyfriend.
