It’s not coming…it’s HERE! And One Call Now message notification can help!
Many parts of the U.S. are under various forms of Weather Level Warnings and/or are completely snowed in.
Can you imagine braving the weather to attend services only to find your religious institution closed?
With One Call Now – you can contact your entire congregation with just one call and avoid any confusion related to the weather.
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Santa Ynez Valley Journal | BOGUS BILLS INTERCEPTED
By Isaiah Brookshire, Staff Writer
December 9th, 2010
Alleged counterfeiters were in sheriff’s custody after alert shopkeepers tipped deputies off to their whereabouts.
On Monday afternoon, someone attempted to pass faked $100 bills at David Rasmussen’s store in Solvang. He called the Sheriff’s Department to report the crime and put a message out to other store owners via a phone tree system. Rasmussen said a clerk who had worked at a bank was able to spot the bill as fake. As the clerk was giving a description to a deputy, a call came in from a nearby business that the suspect was there. The deputy ran from Rasmussen’s store and caught the suspect a few blocks away on Copenhagen Drive.
According to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, the suspect was identified as 33-year-old Bryan Steve Pelaez, an at-large parolee from North Hills wanted by the California Department of Corrections. Deputies searched Pelaez and found several counterfeit $100 bills in his wallet and evidence of counterfeiting in his vehicle. Deputies discovered more fake $100 bills in his motel room on Mission Drive along with materials, supplies and equipment used for creating the bogus currency. Pelaez’s girlfriend, 25-year-old Alexandra Lee Cleveland of Burbank, was at the motel when deputies arrived. In their investigation, deputies found that Cleveland was in possession of metal knuckles and arrested her. Investigators believe that the pair may have also passed their counterfeit money in Lompoc and Buellton.
The notification program that led to the pair’s arrest was instituted by the Solvang Chamber of Commerce. Linda Jackson, Chamber director, said a phone-tree notification system has been in the works for about five years. Four years ago, local business decided on a system called One Call Now. This system works much like Reverse 911: If someone spots something suspicious or needs to notify other business owners about an emergency, a single call to the service alerts more than 100 Solvang businesses within minutes.
Jackson said this was the first time the system had led to such a serious arrest and called it “A great success story.” Sheriff’s Department spokesman Drew Sugars said that the proactive nature of the local business was a crucial part of catching the suspects. “The word spread pretty quickly and we were able to get a very good description,” he said. Sugars called the response from the business a “classic example of community policing,” saying the cooperation between deputies and business helped to arrest people who wanted to take away from the community. Pelaez was booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail on a no-bail parolee hold. Cleveland was booked into the jail on two felony charges related to counterfeiting, felony possession of a dangerous weapon and misdemeanor under the influence of a controlled substance. Her bail was set at $20,000.
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It’s December! And for many parts of the country that means snow is here or on its way!
Wouldn’t you like to know school is delayed or cancelled before getting everyone ready or to be able to make plans for the change in schedule?
If a snow storm causes school to be dismissed early – how are you notified?
Here at One Call Now – our automated system notifies staff, parents, and students of school delays, cancellations, early dismissals, emergencies, and much more – all with just ONE call.
Our calls, emails, and/or text messages will keep you up on what’s going on.
When messages matter we deliver!
Visit us online or give us a call – and let us know how we can assist you with all your message notification needs.
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By Nancy Bowman
Contributing Writer
Dayton Daily News
Court Date Reminder Call Ok’d
County approves system to phone people prior to a Municipal Court hearing.
Troy (Ohio) – Those with a court date in Miami County Municipal Court soon could be receiving a reminder call, courtesy of the court.
The county commission earlier this month approved a proposed agreement between the court and the Troy-based One Call Now calling service for 25,000 calls for $3,000.
On any given day as many as 25 percent of people scheduled to appear in court do not show, Judge Elizabeth Gutmann said.
For every person who does not appear, the hearing must be reset or a warrant issued for their arrest.
“It is just a lot of paperwork,” Gutmann said. Plus, when someone who forgot to show decides to come to court without a scheduled hearing, it can be time consuming as clerk’s pull files and parties needed to move the case along — lawyers, judges and others — have to be gathered.
With its initial agreement, the court will pay around 12 cents per call. Information already collected from people scheduled for court will be placed in a program provided by the call company to prepare for the automated call.
The call likely would go out the day before a scheduled hearing and include the date and time of hearing plus information on what could happen if they don’t show up and a phone number for the person to call with any questions.
“We want to remind them there could be serious consequences if they failed to appear. It doesn’t matter how ‘minor’ the offense, it is the same amount of paperwork,” Gutmann said.
Calls would go to those scheduled for an arraignment, pretrial conference, trial or a civil hearing, among others, she said.
In addition to cutting paperwork, the court hopes to reduce the number of people arrested on warrants and, potentially, brought to the county jail for an overnight or longer stay.
“Right now, jail beds are at a premium,” Gutmann said.
Sheriff Charles Cox, about a year ago, closed the county Incarceration Facility, where nonviolent offenders were held, leaving the county with just more than 100 jail beds. The closing was caused by budget cuts.
Not only is the jail space in big demand, but also the court clerk’s office staff has been reduced to a “skeleton” level by budget cuts, the judge said. “We want people here when we are here,” she said.
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