Public safety technology · Solutions Consultant at Prepared · Great Lakes
Chris Izworski is based in Bay City, Michigan, on the western shore of Saginaw Bay. Bay City is his home base for everything documented on this site, a career in Michigan public safety, a seed-saving garden on the bay, and a daily maritime newsletter tracking vessel movements across the Great Lakes.
He spent more than a decade directing 911 operations in Michigan. From 2012 to 2022 he was Director of Bay County 911, located in Bay City. From 2022 to 2025 he was Executive Director of Saginaw County 911, across the bay. He is currently a Solutions Consultant at Prepared, a public safety technology company, deploying audio capture and analysis systems at 911 centers nationwide. The role draws directly on the operational knowledge built during those years running dispatch centers in the Great Lakes Bay Region.
Bay City sits at the mouth of the Saginaw River where it meets Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron. The Great Lakes Bay Region, Bay, Saginaw, and Midland counties, is served by a network of 911 centers, county emergency management offices, and mutual aid agreements that Chris Izworski worked within for over a decade. Bay County 911 dispatches for police, fire, and EMS across all of Bay County from a center on Washington Avenue in Bay City. The 2017 Bay County government phone directory lists Chris Izworski as the contact for Central Dispatch/911.
In 2024, working at Saginaw County 911 across the bay, Chris led one of Michigan's first AI-powered non-emergency call deployments at a PSAP, a project covered by WNEM TV5, WCMU Public Radio, Fast Company, and NENA. The full record is on the media page and the case studies page.
Bay City's position on Saginaw Bay, the largest embayment of Lake Huron, makes it a natural vantage point for Great Lakes maritime activity. Freighters transit the bay throughout the navigation season, bound for ports along the Saginaw River including Essexville and the agricultural terminals upriver. The Soo Locks open each March, and the first vessels of the season pass through Saginaw Bay within days.
Chris Izworski runs Freighter View Farms, a heirloom seed-saving blog and garden on Saginaw Bay. The name reflects what is visible from the property, the freighter traffic on the bay that marks the seasons as clearly as the frost dates. He also publishes the Great Lakes Gazette, a daily maritime newsletter built on live AIS vessel tracking data and NOAA lake conditions, updated automatically each morning.
For the full professional record: about page, career timeline, and biography. For media coverage: media page and citations. For Bay City and Great Lakes content: Great Lakes Gazette, freighter tracking guide, and Saginaw Bay ecology.