It's listed on your cell phone bill as a $1.20 "911 Service Fee," and you pay it every month to New York state.
But an investigative report in the Syracuse Post-Standard's Sunday editions finds that only 6 cents actually ends up at a 911 center.
The fee - intended to upgrade 911 services - was implemented in the early 1990s. The Post-Standard report details millions in unrelated spending over the past six years.
That includes $24 million for overtime at agencies including the departments of corrections and parks, and $1 million to house and feed National Guard soldiers patrolling nuclear power plants.
Just last year, two agencies - technology and agriculture - used almost $60,000 in 911 fees to pay their own cell-phone bills.
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