WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar issued the following news release:
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) are urging U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Gail Slater and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson to investigate the consolidation of critical services and products that fire and public safety departments across the country rely on to keep Americans safe. This includes incident reporting and data management software solutions used by fire departments.
Recent reports indicate a single company, backed by private equity, has acquired multiple fire service software businesses and now controls the software used by nearly two-thirds of the nation's 30,000 fire departments to effectively ...