Keeping children safe is the purpose of a cellphone application that the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office is arranging to have made available here.
Shawnee County Commissioners Bill Riphahn, Kevin Cook and Aaron Mays voted 3-0 Monday to acknowledge Sheriff Brian Hill had notified them that his office was paying $500 to Covington, La.-based OffenderWatch to provide “Virtual Safe Neighborhood” services in Shawnee County.
The Virtual Safe Neighborhood program will enable Shawnee County citizens to buy a smartphone application that will allow parents to know if a registered offender attempts to contact their child, Hill told commissioners last week in a memorandum.
(Read more: Local Government – The Topeka Capital-Journal)