Greetings!
I hope that all is well with our Neighborhood Watch groups in Hays County. The Hays County Sheriff’s Office is excited to know that we have such a large and supportive group of citizens that help us to keep our communities and businesses safe. Thank you.
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
We are continuing to update information in our database, on www.usaonwatch.org, and working to bring some free training for Neighborhood Watch to our communities. We encourage you register or update your communities contact information on www.usaonwatch.org, the site is sponsored by the National Sheriff’s Association and they have lots of good information regarding Neighborhood Watch.
Also, if anyone is having a Neighborhood Watch meeting or Property Owners Association meeting, and would like to have a deputy to come and speak about Neighborhood Watch, crime prevention, or safety, please email me and we will set up dates.
We are organizing and putting together some training classes for Neighborhood Watch that will include establishing and maintaining programs, observation skills, and more. We are hoping to be able to start offering these classes this spring. We will try to plan to bring the training sessions to different cities.
TOWN HALL MEETINGS
Sheriff Gary Cutler has held the first of a series of town hall meetings in Dripping Springs last night. We were very happy that many came out to see and meet with us and see how your sheriff’s office is progressing. There are 3 more town hall meetings:
–Thursday February 23, 2012 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Hays High School – Tech Building Meeting Room in Kyle, Teas;
–Tuesday February 28, 2012 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Hays County Government Center Meeting Room in San Marcos, Texas;
–Tuesday March 6, 2012 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Wimberley VFW in Wimberley, Texas.
We hope to see everyone there!
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT 2012
Although it is only February, National Night Out is already starting to be planned for this year. The date for National Night Out in Texas is October 2, 2012. I have already received registrations for parties in Hunter Ridge, Thompson Ranch Estates, Bradfield Village, Southriver, and Meadow Woods. I have attached the registration form to this email. Because of you, Hays County placed 19th out of 140 agencies in Category 2 last year. The award is yours as much as it is the Hays County Sheriff’s Office’s. In 2012, I hope that together we can take 1st place! I have attached some links here to help with National Night Out information:
http://www.natw.org/nno/index.html
http://neighbors.whitepages.com/nno
http://www.nnosuperstore.com/?utm_source=NNO+2012+Reg+Begins&utm_campaign=CC%231+2012&utm_medium=email
http://www.natw.org/nno/nno_party.html
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
The Hays County Sheriff’s Office is on Facebook and Twitter. Come and check us out. We will be posting items of interest and photos here. Below are the links:
Facebook Twitter
EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
This system uses a “reverse dialing” telephone method to notify members of the public of critical emergency information in situations where property or human life is in danger.
Originally, the system would only contact only those persons with regular, land-line telephone service. With the rise in the popularity of cellular telephones, an increasing number of persons no longer maintain traditional telephone service. Instead, they rely exclusively on their cellular telephones as their residence telephone. In response, CAPCOG has added the ability to notify you on your cell phone if there is an emergency near your home, business or other location.
Persons may link their cellular telephone number to one or more locations within the 10-county CAPCOG region, including their homes, businesses and the homes of relatives. If a participating local government activates the system for an area that contains a location that has been registered to a particular cellular telephone number, the system will attempt to send the emergency message to that cellular telephone. PLEASE NOTE: This notification system only works within the Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Travis and Williamson Counties.
Emergency notification messages are initiated by local public safety agencies as one of several methods of relaying vital information to their citizens.
To register for this service, click here.
If you have previously registered and want to make changes, click here.
COMING SOON!
CITIZEN OBSERVER
Citizen Observer is a web based notification toolset for law enforcement that enables citizens to receive and respond to text, email, and web alerts from our agency.
• Alerts are received by citizens according to their preference of text message, email or both. There is no cost to the public to sign up to receive alerts.
• Alerts are automatically posted to the web and are also published to your social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and other web sites (your own website) automatically via RSS feed.
• Automatic publishing of alerts to Google Maps enables Citizens to interact even more with your alerts.
• The system enables the creation of custom public or private target groups, providing your agency with an additional tool to target information to those it’s most relevant to.
• Citizen Observer is the only notification system to offer inbound anonymous communications via text message or email. This technology enables you to engage in a real time two way “chat” with someone who wishes to provide important information to your agency.
This program will be fully operational very soon. Here is the link for Citizen Observer:
Citizen Observer
Again, we want to thank all of you for your support and for helping to keep our communities safe.
Respectfully,
Jeff Jordan
Deputy/HCSO
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