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OffenderWatch®, in use by hundreds of agencies all sizes from coast to coast, is the definitive offender management and community notification tool. OffenderWatch® offers outstanding offender management tools for agencies supporting counties as small as 10,000 people or as large as several million.
- Offenders move an average of 4 times a year! Citizens want, and need, easy access to sex offender data so they can run neighborhood searches around their home and school. They want to stay updated with emails and postal mailings whenever there is a change around them.
- 80 - 90% of your citizens have a registered sex offender living within a one mile radius of their home, children's school, or place of work. One citizen may have up to 5 physical addresses that are important to them to receive email alerts and updates.
OffenderWatch® helps sheriff offices and police departments:
- Streamline the initial data registration and data collection, and periodic updates
- Provide assurance at the point of entry that safety buffers around schools and other protected addresses are not violated
- Manage the on-going address verifications / compliance checks in a consistent and professional manner
- Make effective, personalized information and notifications to the community in regard to sex offenders.
Sheriff / Police Department integration means sheriff's, their police department partners, the county DA, and probation staff can all access the common county offender database with complete offender data. This allows easy coordination and cooperation regarding offender management, monitoring and prosecution. All participating agencies may share a single public banner or may have their own public identity with a fully personalized web portal ( as shown above) complete with personal emails.
> Example of shared portal / banner: www.sheriffalerts.com/tx/collin
Being web-based means that unlimited users from your agency and your partner agencies can access the OffenderWatch® program from any Internet connection and, with appropriate rights, either update or search for offender data.
Being mapping-based means OffenderWatch® automatically and accurately maps all the addresses associated to your offenders, as well as your protected addresses.
Being Adam Walsh Act Compliant means OffenderWatch® can provide your agency a tool set that enables your staff to collect all the required data, monitor your offenders appropriately, and make the required community notifications to be in full compliance with the Adam Walsh Act.
Administrative/Management Support
OffenderWatch® provides authorized law enforcement access to an easy-to-use database that houses all data and history associated to the offenders in your jurisdiction. Compound queries may be run against this database pertaining to desired criteria, and state registration forms may be programmed into OffenderWatch® so the filled-in form can be printed as an automatic by-product of the data-collection / registration process.
Key Features of OffenderWatch®
 OffenderWatch® provides your sex offender registration officer(s) with a web-based database to house offender data, photos, addresses, phone, vehicle history, scars, tattoos, aliases, employment, offenses, verification schedule, email / IM addresses, and more. The OffenderWatch® software is compliant with the Adam Walsh Act required data and is easily searchable, mappable, printable and export-able!
 Booking Alert – this new feature enables your registration officer to be automatically notified if one of your offenders is booked into a jail anywhere in America.
 OffenderWatch® manages the address verification / compliance check cycle and places offenders on a calendar, based on their individual verification cycles, with an automatic reminder system. This huge time saver keeps your office in compliance with the law! Up to 5 different verification cycles per offender can be managed and displayed on the calendar.
Active Offender Notification – this feature enables your agency to pre-record multiple messages, and then create rules to notify your offenders via an automated call center reminding them of re-registration. dates, etc.
 OffenderWatch® automatically manages your safety buffers and residency restrictions around your schools, day cares, churches, bus stops or other places where children gather. Deputies are alerted as the offender is registering. Whatever your local safety buffer ordinance may be, OffenderWatch® supports it. OffenderWatch® can keep your office and your offenders in compliance with changing law. OffenderWatch® supports both address points and parcels of protected addresses.
Community Awareness and Notification
 Allow the public to access and search your database of publishable offenders through your own custom portal linked from your existing website! This great community awareness tool allows your citizens to run radial searches using Watch's SMART RADIAL SEARCH feature, register to receive automatic email notifications of changes affecting their desired addresses, download important tips to protect their family and more.
> Visit CommunityNotification.com to view the network of OffenderWatch® portals
 Smart Radial - This unique technology analyzes the density of offenders near an address and either restricts the radial (down to .25 mile) or enlarges the radial (to up 2 miles) to provide citizens with a reasonable and manageable number of offenders.
 Citizens may register to receive a personalized email notification from your sheriff each time there is a change regarding offenders within their area! Citizens may register an unlimited number of addresses for which to receive alerts through your easy to use custom portal interface. This valuable service shows your citizens the level of concern and proactive steps that you take to protect against child predators and sex offenders living in your area.
 OffenderWatch® prints and mails postal card notifications to all residents within the prescribed radius as required by your law, plus the institutions you maintain on a notification list (schools, day cares, libraries, etc), within 48 hours of offender registration. Watch Systems utilizes the highest quality US postal mailing addresses for virtually 100% successful mailings!
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