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Sanchez questions other outages and tech issues this year

New York City Council · Sep 9, 2026 · starts 1:01:16 · 1 min 9 sec

Sanchez asks about other outages beyond August and May. Gelobter says she doesn't believe there were other New Yorker-facing disruptions in 2026, but acknowledges technology issues occur regularly and the team's job is to remediate them quickly before New Yorkers are affected.

Justin E. Sanchez

Yeah, and you mentioned there was a texting outage back in May that lasted 110 minutes.

Justin E. Sanchez

Any other outages this year other than?

Justin E. Sanchez

The August one and the May one?

Lisa Gelobter

So the only thing that I will say around that is there are

Lisa Gelobter

Technology issues that occur across the board, right?

Lisa Gelobter

I think you've all said, right, technology systems aren't perfect as you make updates or changes or external factors contribute.

Lisa Gelobter

And so what we are charged with doing is trying to make sure that New Yorkers aren't affected by it and that the systems, emergency services, continue to stay up and running.

Lisa Gelobter

I don't believe there were any other New Yorkers facing disruptions this year, but I will say, again, technology

Lisa Gelobter

There are technology impacts that our job is to remediate as quickly as possible.

Lisa Gelobter

So I can't say there were no other tech problems generally.

Justin E. Sanchez

All right.