Winston-Salem, NC (February 20, 2013) Today the Magnolia Police Department unveiled “SafeTown,” a powerful, easy-to-use suite of Web-based and mobile apps that will connect and empower local law enforcement and citizens to make their community a better and safer place to live.

“The safety of our residents, business owners and visitors is always at the forefront of everything we do,” said Chief of Police Domingo Ibarra. “We are moving forward, utilizing state-of-the-art technology to interact with the citizens in our community. With the SafeTown Crime Maps app, for example, both current and future residents and business owners can see law enforcement related events handled by the Magnolia Police Department. This feature allows citizens to get a more accurate representation of events that occur within the boundaries of the City of Magnolia. This is an exciting day for the Magnolia Police Department as we are living up to our motto: ‘In Partnership With Our Community.’”

“The Magnolia Police Department relentlessly strives to implement modern technology to support modern day policing practices for the benefit of our entire community. SafeTown advances our community closer to an ideal ‘All-American City’ and we plan to roll-out additional SafeTown applications through-out 2013,” said Executive Officer James Senegal of the Magnolia Police Department.

SafeTown apps have the added benefit of being fully integrated with InterAct’s suite of public safety applications, ensuring that information is always accurate and up to date. “Integration with our core online applications are key,” said Mike McGarry, InterAct Senior Vice President and General Manager, InterAct Products. “The data that agencies want to share with citizens are in the core systems and the information shared by the citizens needs to be accessible through these same core systems in order to realize the full value of the public-to-public safety data sharing enabled by SafeTown.”

The Magnolia Police Department has initially implemented one module of the SafeTown Suite, Crime Maps which is powered by RAIDS Online from BAIR Analytics.  “The Magnolia Police Departments commitment to provide proactive communication through the combination of RAIDS Online and the SafeTown application suite demonstrates their commitment to the public they serve,” said Sean Bair, founder of BAIR Analytics, “We’re excited to partner with InterAct to provide this free service to the citizens of Magnolia Texas.”

SafeTown Crime Maps App provides the following key features:

• With SafeTown’s Crime Maps App, you can view crime incidents and statistics for your neighborhood conveniently on a map.

• Understand what crimes are happening, where they are happening and when they are happening.

• Better visibility to historical crime data can help you partner with law enforcement and community watch organizations to create a safer community.

About SafeTown™

SafeTown delivers services to the community via a community web portal and a family of smart phone apps. With SafeTown, citizens can create household profiles for first responders to use. Agencies can post alerts to all SafeTown subscribers in the community and citizens can report non-emergency problems or suspicious activity. Additionally, real time events and crime history can be viewed on a map, and authorities can publish information to the community about inmates in local correctional facilities. To learn more about SafeTown, please visithttp://www.safetown.org.

About InterAct™

InterAct creates public safety software products that support dispatchers, incident responders (law, fire, EMS) and correctional officers worldwide.

We bring the benefits of cloud computing to public safety. Our cloud applications connect public safety practitioners to each other and the information they need anywhere, anytime. Our cloud options are more reliable, less costly, easier to use, and more secure.

We believe the benefits of cloud computing are so great that its adoption has become a key success factor in achieving the mission that we share with our customers: the safety and well-being of citizens and their communities.

About BAIR Analytics

Established in 1997, BAIR Analytics is an analytical software and services company providing innovative tools and subject-matter expertise for public safety, private security, national security and defense entities. Nearly half of the largest public-safety agencies in the United States use BAIR’s products & services to fight crime.  BAIR’s customers also include Wal-Mart, Target, ATF, and the US Department of Defense. In 2012 BAIR Analytics was honored as a top 50 Colorado company and made its debut as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America on the Inc. 500/5000 list. For more information, visit www.bairanalytics.com.

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