Hale County in Texas Selects Omnilink Systems to Electronically Monitor

ATLANTA – 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 combines an unwavering commitment to innovation, thought leadership and trust building in its pioneering and development of technologies within the Vital Status Services (VSS) industry. Omnilink builds the most powerful, durable and reliable technology platform that provides pinpoint location services and unparalleled performance in environments where other technologies will not work using a unique combination of GPS, RFID and situation specific sensors. Omnilink offers the most accurate, reliable, and efficient solutions to control, manage, and protect people and valuable assets when it matters. Omnilink’s VSS solutions focus more on personal and public safety, loss prevention and surveillance. For more information, please visit http://www.omnilinksystems.com or call 678-624-5900.