HALE COUNTY IN TEXAS SELECTS OMNILINK SYSTEMS TO ELECTRONICALLY MONITOR JUVENILES ON PROBATION

County officials praise system for lower cost, pin-pointed tracking of juvenile offenders

Atlanta, GA - May 16, 2007 -Today, the Juvenile Probation Board of Hale County, Texas announced it has selected Omnilink Systems to provide electronic juvenile offender monitoring services for several county youth that are on probation. A pioneer of vital status service solutions, Omnilink provides sophisticated location awareness information in real-time, offering the industry’s only product that is completely waterproof and capable of tracking people and valuable assets inside buildings, buses, trains and more.

After relying on landline-based monitoring, which only notified probation officers when offenders were home, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Eddie Subealdea stated that Omnilink’s FocalPoint 2.0 monitoring technology solution allows the Hale County officers to know the location of their assigned juveniles at all times.

“With Omnilink’s FocalPoint 2.0 monitoring technology solution, my officers know within a minute when a juvenile breaks curfew or is somewhere off limits. And, they can view reports telling them where the juveniles have been previously. The adolescents themselves can’t believe it and seem more apt to stay out of trouble,” Subealdea says. “With this increased efficiency, electronic monitoring has proven to be an effective alternative to juvenile placement, which can cost 10 times as much as monitoring. That’s a lot of savings which allows the tax payer dollars to be spent in other ways to improve safety or juvenile services.”

Subealdea also noted that the Omnilink team has provided excellent customer service, constant technical support and has addressed many questions immediately.

Omnilink's FocalPoint 2.0 monitoring technology solution brings an unprecedented level of efficiency and effectiveness to offender management, asset tracking, including loss prevention, surveillance as well as personal and public safety. The company uses a combination of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), wireless network technologies, RFID and situation-specific sensors to transmit information to a monitoring center using commercial cellular networks and then applying predefined supervision rules on a Web-based application.

Recently updated in conjunction with law enforcement feedback, Omnilink’s FocalPoint 2.0 also features automated voice alerts when an offender location violation has occurred. In addition, FocalPoint 2.0 offers a victim safeguard that tracks the victims’ off-the-shelf cell phones, in addition to the related offender, and then alerts both the victim and law enforcement when the two are within a designated proximity to each other.

“We are honored to serve Hale County and its juvenile justice professionals,” says Steve Aninye, CEO of Omnilink Systems. “We are committed to working side-by-side with probation officers to ensure that Focalpoint 2.0 continues to provide unparalleled views of offender location and real-time alerts. We hope that this can be one way to decrease placement costs, and provide the adolescents a chance to become responsible citizens.”

About Omnilink Systems

Omnilink Systems provides the real-time location of people and valuable assets through unique location-based services technology that goes beyond traditional GPS. Our judicial solutions are transforming offender monitoring by providing officers with immediate visibility to offender locations anytime, anywhere. Government agencies across the country rely on Omnilink Systems' single-unit solutions to effectively manage offenders in a variety of alternative sanctions programs. Through our network of value-added solutions partners, Omnilink's commercial solutions provide the real-time location of people and critical assets when their safety and security are of paramount importance. For more information, please visit www.omnilink.com or call 678-624-5900.