OffenderWatch®, the nation's leading offender management and community notification solution, can benefit more than local agencies and users.   Because the program is built on an “enterprise” platform, it can be aggregated to serve as a statewide offender registration and monitoring platform with virtually no customization.  By deploying OffenderWatch® in each registration location, repository updates can be streamlined and made in real time so that more efficiency can be realized within each level of the process.

OffenderWatch® is an affordable, well-tested and proven commercial off-the-shelf technology that  can be easily and quickly tailored to meet unique policies and procedures defined by your state or tribal statute to ensure local acceptance.    Watch Systems provides the industry's most responsive, comprehensive service and support at both levels of involvement - the local users of OffenderWatch® who are registering offenders, collecting data and monitoring offenders,  as well as at the state agency chartered with maintaining the repository.

OffenderWatch® is always ahead of the changing statutory requirements, ensuring federal and state compliance for your state, local agencies and offenders.   Watch Systems provides an experienced technical support desk which provides seasoned geocoding and mapping support for your state, agencies and citizens, saving your state considerable overhead.  When an offender reports a false or bad address and the user needs help mapping the address, Watch Systems is there to assist.  Our web-based and regional face-to-face training and support means that repository personnel can focus on supporting polices and procedures that are targeted to the management process. 

How Deploying OffenderWatch® Locally as a Consistent Data-Collection and Management Tool can Benefit a State Repository

• Web-based and accessible securely by unlimited authorized users within law enforcement,
• Well-supported with minimal learning curve and readily accepted locally,
• Justice XML based database readily integrates with state respositories and other systems,
• Streamlines the initial data collection and registration process,
• Automatically provides assurance at the point of entry that safety buffers around schools and other protected addresses are not violated,
• Automatically facilitates cross jurisdiction communication and importation of full offender records between agencies saving time and data entry,
• Provides a rich set of features to the local users to help manage the on-going address verifications / compliance checks, with calendars, automated phone calling, automated letters, and historical information, and
• Makes very effective, personalized information and notifications to the community in regard to sex offenders.

Offender management and mapping software is so expensive to develop and support, many agencies have migrated from various internally developed systems to find that OffenderWatch® is much more full featured and affordable.  This completely outsourced solution has none of the maintenance and support headaches of trying to maintain such a system in-house.  OffenderWatch® provides, off-the-shelf, all required fields and features of the SORNA of the Adam Walsh Act.  Being completely web-based, OffenderWatch® can be implemented with no impact on your local Information Technology infrastructure, networks, server sizing or security environment - this allows us to implement this complete, affordable solution inside of 90 days!

The Impact of the Adam Walsh Act on States

Implemented in January 2008, the Adam Walsh Act is creating evolving law and standards in an attempt to standardize sex offender registration and management law across the country. The Act seeks to expand on data collected and the frequency of updates regarding offenders.  These mandatory rules significantly increase the amount of work at the local level without providing additional compensation or funding for the efforts.

How OffenderWatch® Assists

OffenderWatch® is designed to support the changing law and keep your state and local agencies in compliance.  Further,  OffenderWatch® will save personnel time and department dollars through increasing efficiency, accuracy, and public awareness in the management of offender data.  The public is holding local agencies accountable for compliancy!  Through OffenderWatch®'s automated, easy-to-use data collection, electronic update and management features, Watch Systems can provide you the tools to increase the quality of your information and management services while saving time and duplicate efforts.

How Watch Systems Assists

Not only does Watch Systems make sure that the OffenderWatch® software is continually upgraded and enhanced to comply with changing law, our support and management team goes above and beyond as a resource to assist you with understanding and intrepreting complex offender laws.  Call upon Watch Systems to work with you to:

• Assist in lobbying efforts and help drafting model legislation,
• Provide rich and well-tested personalized community tools to drive the highest possible citizen utilization of the mapping and notification programs,
• Facilitate cooperation, communication and interoperability between Sheriff and Police Chief Associations, local agencies, and state agencies and repositories, and
• Provide outstanding local training, support, technical and mapping support and tools to the local agencies in your state relieving your agency of this time-consuming obligation.