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Telmate Celebrates One Year of BBB A+ Rating

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 24, 2015 – The San Francisco-based corrections technology provider Telmate, is celebrating its one-year “A-plus” rating from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). According to BBB, an A-plus rating is the organization’s highest possible rating awarded and the accreditation is only awarded to select businesses. Ultimately, it represents BBB’s confidence that […]

Lafayette Parish Adopts New Tracking Technology

LAFAYETTE, La. — The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office in Lafayette recently began using a smartphone-based app to better track inmates sentenced to participate in a GPS tracking program. The app promises to provide greater ease and security in inmate monitoring via a widely used and easily accessible device. The parish has partnered with Telmate, a […]

Lafayette Parish Adopts New Tracking Technology

LAFAYETTE, La. — The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office in Lafayette recently began using a smartphone-based app to better track inmates sentenced to participate in a GPS tracking program. The app promises to provide greater ease and security in inmate monitoring via a widely used and easily accessible device. The parish has partnered with Telmate, a […]

SEPTEMBER HERO: SERGEANT GARY GRUNEWALD

Ada County Hero Keeps Community Safe by Continually Leveraging Technology SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 -BOISE, ID – Telmate’s Hero of the Month, Sergeant Gary Grunewald, is an always-innovating tech pioneer at the Ada County Jail, where he regularly makes sure the facility not only gets value and benefit out of technology, but uses it effectively for […]

Lafayette trying new smartphone app to track offenders

A new smartphone-based app will make cumbersome ankle bracelets a relic for some Lafayette Parish offenders sentenced to a GPS tracking program. The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office this week announced its adoption of Telmate Guardian, an app compatible with Android and Apple phones that uses their cameras, microphones and GPS features to monitor where users […]

Lafayette Jail Announces Adoption of Telmate Guardian, Smartphone-based GPS Monitoring for Community Corrections

LAFAYETTE, LA (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 – The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office today announced their adoption of Telmate Guardian, a technically advanced, low-cost, smartphone-based, GPS monitoring solution for low-risk populations in community corrections. Community correction includes pre-trial, work-release, probation and parole.

Law enforcement community rallies around C.P. family

CROWN POINT | At 13 months, the parents of Emberly Brazil knew something wasn’t right. Her mother, Rachel Brazil, said her daughter was having seizures at night, was only saying a few words and stopped connecting emotionally with the family. “For a few months, it was as if she wasn’t even here,” she said. This […]

Telmate Cares Awards Scholarship to Law Enforcement Club at ACA 145th Congress of Correction

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (PRWEB) August 13, 2015 – On August 16, during the American Correctional Association’s 145th Congress of Correction, Telmate will award Indiana-based law enforcement Untouchables Motorcycle Club (UMC) a $5,000 scholarship as part of the company’s Telmate Fallen Heroes Fund, a part of the Telmate Cares program. The fund provides financial assistance to law enforcement […]

AUGUST HERO: MIKE RACZKOWSKI

Montana IT Hero Keeps Montana DOC Up and Running August 10, 2015 – HELENA, MT – Mike Raczkowski is all about supporting what he calls, “the real heroes” of corrections. The IT Communications Manager for the Montana Department of Corrections (MDOC) was named Telmate’s August Hero of the Month. “I support those that put themselves […]