{"id":41339,"date":"2016-10-03T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T03:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41339"},"modified":"2016-10-03T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T03:33:09","slug":"dhsmv-and-senator-bill-galvano-celebrate-10-years-of-the-eci-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/10\/dhsmv-and-senator-bill-galvano-celebrate-10-years-of-the-eci-program\/","title":{"rendered":"DHSMV And Senator Bill Galvano Celebrate 10 Years Of The ECI Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41340\" title=\"ECI\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ECI-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ECI-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ECI.png 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV), Senator Bill Galvano and Christine Olson of To Inform Families First (TIFF) are recognizing the 10-year anniversary of Florida\u2019s emergency contact information (ECI) system. ECI is a state-supported, secure system that allows Floridians with a valid driver license or identification (ID) card to register contact information of up to two friends and\/or family members for immediate notification in the event of an emergency. The emergency contact information can only be accessed by law enforcement and only in the event of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>On October 2, 2006, Christine Olson became the first person to register ECI in Florida, creating the first ever ECI program in the nation.\u00a0Ten years later, almost 11.5 million, or approximately 66 percent of Floridians with driver licenses and ID cards, have registered their ECI and other states have since replicated the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV), Senator Bill Galvano and Christine Olson of To Inform Families First (TIFF) are recognizing the 10-year anniversary of Florida\u2019s emergency&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}