COVINGTON, La. — With more than 20,000 registered sex offenders in Canada across 13 provincial territories, OffenderWatch, headquartered in Covington, La.—the leading public safety sex offender registry network in the United States—announced its partnership with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to enhance the Canadian National Sex Offender Registry. This is OffenderWatch’s first partnership formed outside of the U.S.
“OffenderWatch has specialized in the sex offender registry space servicing local, state and federal law enforcement partners for nearly 20 years,” said Mike Cormaci, president and co-founder of OffenderWatch. “The flexibility and innovation of our platform allows for comprehensive implementation of the entire country of Canada with features and adaptability not realized before.”
There are numerous benefits to collaborating on a single sex offender record across any jurisdiction and Canada is no exception. With the OffenderWatch technological backbone supporting the new Canadian system, public safety agencies across Canada can configure certain features to bring efficiency in records management and investigations.
OffenderWatch currently works with more than 3,500 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in 36 states in the United States—with statewide implementation in 16 of those states. The OffenderWatch network accounts for more than 60 percent of sex offenders in the U.S. New programs and services are now expanding that population to close to 80 percent domestically. The partnership between RCMP and OffenderWatch will build and deploy the national solution that will be unmatched by any other national program as many of the features are collaboratively designed by the RCMP and OffenderWatch over and above what is currently available in the core system.
The purpose of the sex offender monitoring and alerting program is to bring efficiency realized in the United States to law enforcement agencies. The RCMP tapped OffenderWatch based on the company’s existing infrastructure and industry knowledge. “Our capabilities for geocoding, radial-based searches and hosting structure allow for large concurrent access by the public and public safety,” Cormaci said.
Through the partnership, in addition to public safety features for federal, provincial and local law enforcement across Canada, the solution will achieve several goals of the RCMP.
OffenderWatch Canada will:
- Improve the quality of registered sex offender data by enforcing mandatory data fields and increasing data validation
- Increase compliance with current legislation
- Advance work processes by increasing efficiency of workflows and reducing manual processes and paper files
For more information about OffenderWatch, please visit www.WatchSystems.com.