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<br />. @ <br />City of Santa Ana, CA. VINE Program Proposal <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />Executive Summary <br /> <br />This proposal details Appriss, Inc.'s offer to provide an Automated Victim Access Notification <br />System for City of Santa Ana Police Department, CA. <br /> <br />Appriss, Inc. was founded with the mission to become the nations leading provider of automated <br />victim notification services. The company successfully developed a computerized system for <br />keeping crime victims informed about their attacker. This unique program was implemented in <br />Jefferson County, KY in December of 1994 and is known as Victim Information and <br />Notification Everyday, or VINE@. In its simplest terms, VINE allows crime victims to contact an <br />automated computer hotline 24 hours a day to receive information about the status of an offender <br />and/or case. By registering a telephone number with the system, a victim will be called <br />immediately if the offender was released or transferred. <br /> <br />In early 1995, Appriss created an automated victim notification communications center in its <br />headquarters and by late 1995 began connecting communities into the communications center to <br />deliver the VINE service on a national basis. This communications center design has been issued <br />a US Patent Number 5,861,810 that includes 38 claims to automated victim notification <br />technology. <br /> <br />In 1996, communities in New Jersey, Texas, California, Florida and Michigan began using the <br />VINE service and in April of 1996 a statewide contract was awarded to install the program for all <br />120 Kentucky Counties. The program is now in 35 states and covers over 750 communities <br />nationwide. Sixteen State Departments of Corrections have contracted to use the service for their <br />prison systems. Major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, <br />Charlotte, Oakland, Denver and Atlanta have contracted with Appriss to provide this service. In <br />July 2000, the United States Department of Justice selected the VINE service to provide <br />automated victim notification for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Attorney's <br />Offices, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In addition, hundreds of smaller communities are <br />using VINE making Appriss the largest national provider of Automated Victim Notification <br />Services. <br /> <br />For this project, Appriss will provide the Automated Victim Notification Service by using our <br />existing national communications center located in Louisville, Kentucky. Appriss will assign a <br />project management team to create an interface with the county computer system used by the <br />contracting agency. This technical team will design scripts, develop the required interface <br />hardware and consult with the customer's design team to recommend program features that <br />maximize service to the victim. <br /> <br />As this interface is created, an account promotion team will also be assigned to the project. This <br />team will focus on developing and launching a marketing, training, and public relations <br />campaign for the Victim Notification Service. They will also provide a professional quality <br />video geared toward law enforcement and victim service providers in the community. The video <br /> <br />All Information contained in this proposal (Yer. 6.3) is the <br />confidential and proprietary property of Appriss, Inc. <br /> <br />Page 5 <br /> <br />01/01/2001 <br />Proposal # 100901228-01 <br />