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Subject: Fwd: Public Alerts Solutions
Title: Fwd: Public Alerts Solutions
Hi Folks,
Thanks for all the response, since I really don't have the time
to focus on this right now. Regardless, I thought I would pass this
along, too. I finally got around to simply checking the website
associated with this message
http://socialtech.trak.org/
I was then going to check out the sender to see if he is a lurker
on the EM TC list, but OASIS timed out twice, so I guess they are
doing maintenance. Anyway, on the basis of the website checking out as
valid, I am passing it along...
Hmmmnnnnnn... Did you ever get the feeling that you were missing
something important? I hate it when this happens.
Ciao,
Rex
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:12:06 -0500
From: Todd Bower <toddbower@compuserve.com>
Subject: Public Alerts Solutions
Sender: Todd Bower <toddbower@compuserve.com>
To: Steven Woo <SWoo@nas.edu>, Rex Brooks
<rexb@starbourne.com>
X-Rcpt-To: <rexb@starbourne.com>
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Mr. Woo & Mr. Brooks--
I have been made aware of your interest in information relating to
public
emergency alert notifications to precise locations. I thought I
would
provide you a high-level understanding of the Critical Reach Alert
System
now being deployed that at least in significant ways addresses this
issue..
First, Critical Reach is a nonprofit organization that, since 1995,
has
deployed alert systems to law enforcement agencies to enable them
to
quickly build and distribute bulletins to other police agencies and
the
public. The solution, known as TRAK, has been deployed in over 1,400
law
enforcement agencies nationwide. The updated version of TRAK that
capitalizes on current technology has been deployed statewide in New
Jersey
to a total of 550 law enforcement agencies. We are now beginning to
migrate
the 1,400 users of the original technology to the updated version. As
we
deploy the updated version we are changing the product name to
Critical
Reach.
Critical Reach is designed for use by any authority (law
enforcement,
health, OES, fire, Homeland Security, military, etc.)
responsible for
public health and safety. The system enables multiple
independent
authorities to quickly share bulletins (including from 1 to 6 images)
with
each other or to precise subsets of the public infrastructure. It
is
intended for use by local agencies on a daily basis across the full
range
of health, safety, and criminal cases and events--Missing Persons,
Wanted
Persons, Health Alerts, Amber Alerts, Terror Alerts, Environmental
Alerts,
etc. Bulletin distribution can be quickly scalable from 1 to millions
and
from local to county to region to state, etc.
Authority users access a shared address book of alert recipients, each
of
which is carefully defined by its geography
(State/County/City/Neighborhod)
and by the type of entity (Business, School, Media. Transportation
Center,
Medical, Volunteer Org, etc.). Each major category has multiple
sub-categories, so Business includes Pawn Shops, Auto Body Shops,
Hotels,
Malls, etc. The goal is to enable each authority, across the full
range of
cases and events that they must handle, to be able to get alert
information
to the precise people that need it.
Critical Reach, as part of our nonprofit mission, works carefully at
the
County and local levels with authorities and trusted public volunteers
to
deeply populate the shared address book and thereby create a vital
public
asset. We have addresses both ends of the spectrum very
effectively--a
proven and trusted technology tool for authorities that meets their
user
and security requirements plus a community-based effort that delivers
the
needed shared address book of recipients. The result is a single,
multi-purpose, highly flexible tool that greatly enhances community
health
and safety.
We are now ramping up to extend the new technology to all current
TRAK
users and to new authorities. We bring substantial private sector
resources
to the table to drive down the cost of the solution for
authorities.
I hope this is helpful. My full contact information is shown
below. If I
can provide further information of be of any assistance, please feel
free
to contact me.
Regards,
Todd Bower, Executive Director
Critical Reach
1660 S. Amphlett Blvd. #330
San Mateo, CA 94402
650/655-3801
Fax 650/525-0225
toddb@trak.org
Tel: 510-849-2309
Fax: By Request
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