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Appriss(R) Inc. Free Venture wards also pay taxes, pay victim
restitution, and deposit money into saving accounts while they are held in an
institution. "I commend all of the Free Venture 's partners
for their commitment to the program and for their willingness to help juvenile
offenders turn their lives around.

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Free Venture Named as a 'Top 50' Program in Innovations in American Government Awards

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About Appriss
Appriss provides innovative technology solutions that help governments
serve and protect their citizens.

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Booking data from all county jails in North Carolina is
reported to Appriss for SAVAN. These companies have provided wards with real-world experience in
meaningful jobs where they learn skills they can take with them when they
return to their communities .

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will provide
JusticeXchange(TM) -- the nation's largest real-time "who's-in-jail" database
- - to the Durham County North Carolina Sheriff's Office, the Durham Police
Department, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Duke University Police, North
Carolina Central University Police, and the Durham County Adult Probation and
Parole Department., Appriss provides
automated notification services to victims of Federal crimes through the U.

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This network collects booking and release information in near real time from
over 1,000 jails and prisons across the United States and currently tracks
more than 66 percent of the offenders held in the nation's county jails and
state prisons.

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Prisons for juveniles.

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The Appriss Data Network supports the North Carolina Statewide Automated
Victim Information and Notification program (SAVAN), also an Appriss product.

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Its flagship product, VINE, is available in
more than 1,500 communities in 39 states and two Canadian provinces., The California Youth
Authority is pleased to announce that the Free Venture Program has been named
a "Top 50 " program in the 2005 Innovations in American Government Awards
competition by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and its partner , the Council
for Excellence in Government. I congratulate CYA Director Walter Allen III, his staff , and the
enterprising companies for collaborating with the California Youth Authority's
Free Venture Program."
"Free Venture is a positive treatment program that not only teaches
transferable job skills, but provides an opportunity for these young offenders
to transition successfully back into society to become productive, law-abiding
citizens," said Director Allen.edu/ This is the second time that the CYA has
been named as a finalist; the first time was in 1999 for an innovative
educational program.

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Department of Justice.
Other innovative products and services include AlertXpress (TM), a high-
speed notification service for criminal justice agencies, and VINE Protective
Order , which notifies crime victims when a protective order has been served on
a respondent.

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Since 1985, the Free Venture Program has enabled private sector companies
to partner with the California Youth Authority and set up shop in its
facilities.

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JusticeXchange is a national integrated database of current and historical
booking information supplied via the Appriss Data Network(TM) , the nation's
largest privately managed integrated justice system. "The JusticeXchange system is an excellent tool
for Durham's law enforcement professionals.S.
For more information about Free Venture, please contact the CYA at
(916) 262-1479.

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"Having access to information on offenders housed in our own community and
across the country will help us to detect , prevent, and solve crimes," Durham
County Sheriff Worth L.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. "Vocational education is a proven, effective and a
smart way to impact the lives of the young men and women who are sent to the
CYA.innovations.
The announcement comes at a critical time for the CYA as it undergoes
massive reform of the department.

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The Innovations in Government Awards endeavors to showcase some of the
current positive government public-private programs in America, which
encourages implementation of best practices.

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North Carolina To Introduce JusticeXchange(TM)

Partnering with a team led by AT+T Government Solutions Inc.

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Durham County first to use integrated justice database to help track offenders

DURHAM, N. Many of these innovations are
available at the Harvard Innovators website
http: //www.

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After logging onto the
secure website, JusticeXchange users can determine the custody status of any
offender, view an offender's previous booking and charge information, create
photo lineups for identification by victims or witnesses, post "watches" for
individuals wanted for questioning , view incident reports on troublesome
inmates, and read comments and cautions from parole and probation supervisors.harvard. Under the reorganization plan proposed by
Governor Schwarzenegger, the CYA will "get back to the basics" of treatment
and rehabilitation of its youthful offenders.

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"Public safety is the number one priority of my administration, and it is
through programs like Free Venture that these young offenders can learn real-
world job skills, pay into a victims restitution fund , and get the training
they need to turn away from crime," said Youth and Adult Correctional Agency
Secretary Roderick Hickman.

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, Durham County law enforcement
professionals will soon have immediate access to information about offenders
held in jails across the country. Hill.