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Colorado Advocacy in Action Conference Vail, CO June 5, 2019

VINE-Victim Information Notification Everyday

• Vine was created in 1994 in response to the brutal murder of Mary Byron.
• Mary and her family were told they would be notified of her ex-boyfriend’s

release from jail. They were not notified, and she was murdered by her ex- boyfriend on her 21st birthday.

• VINE is currently in 48 states across the nation.

Colorado VINE/VINELink

• VINELink is a free service that can notify victim/survivors or other registrants

about the custody status of an offender in a Colorado jail.

• Victims can be notified by phone, text, and/or email; 24 hours a day, seven days a

week.

• Anyone can register in VINELink, and the service is totally anonymous.
• By the end of 2019, all of the Colorado jails and the Division of Youth Services will

participate in Colorado VINE. (DOC does not currently participate in VINE.)

• Data is collected from each facility’s JMS every 15 minutes. The exception is an 8-

hour delay for transfers. (A victim’s registration also transfers.)

• Offender records stay in the system (VINEWatch) for 14 days following the
• ffender’s release; and if an offender is re-arrested within that time period, the

victim will be re-notified of the custody status without having to re-register into VINELink.

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Colorado VINE/VINELink

• Victim/survivors must designate a Personal Identification Number

(PIN) in their registration.

• The PIN does not need to be complicated. It is simply a number that

tells the VINELink system that the call was received, and there is no need for further notifications.

• The PIN is only needed to stop notifications for phone calls. If the system

does not receive a PIN, it will send a phone notification once every 2 hours for 48 hours or until the notification is stopped with the PIN, or manually by an administrator.

• While a PIN is still needed to register for a text or email notification, there is
• nly one notification sent via text or email.
• The PIN is also needed if a victim wishes to edit their registration.

Sample Notifications

PHONE NOTIFICATION

• Hello. I'm calling with the information you requested from the Colorado Statewide Victim Notification
• Service. To continue in Spanish press three. You may want to have a pen and paper handy. After the

message, you will be asked to enter your 4-digit PIN to prevent repeated calls to this telephone

• number. You are registered to receive updates about an offender whose last name is Sanchez, Paul.

I’m calling to tell you that there has been a change in this offender’s custody status. He has been released (bonded out) from the Weld County Sheriff’s Office on 5/3/2018. As a result, you will no longer receive notifications concerning this offender under your current registration with VINE. For more information, contact the former holding facility, Weld County Sheriffs Office at (970) 356-4015. This message will automatically repeat. If you want to hear this notification message again, press 1. If you are ready to enter your pin, press 2. Please enter your 4-digit pin number to prevent repeated calls to this telephone number. EMAIL NOTIFICATION This e-mail is to inform you that Paul Sanchez has been released from custody as of 5/3/2018. If you have any concerns about your immediate safety, contact your local law enforcement agency, or if you have an emergency, call 911.For more information, contact the Weld County Sheriff's Office. The telephone number is (970) 356-4015. This notification is sponsored by the Colorado VINE Service. It is

• ur hope that this information has been helpful to you.

TEXT NOTIFICATION COVINE Msg: P. Sanchez was released on 3/3/2015. In an emergency call 911. FMI call (970) 356-4015.

• Colorado Vine Website:

www.colorado-vine.com

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Colorado VINE/VINELink

• VINELink has a mobile app available.

VINELink

At any time during your registration process, you can get help by clicking

• n the Quick Help link.

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• Chose Colorado from the

Select a State drop-down box.

• Users have many languages to chose from when registering for VINELink.
• Notifications are only sent in English or Spanish.
• Click on the FIND AN OFFENDER link.

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• If you receive this error message it means the offender is not currently in

custody or has been out of custody for more than 14 days, not in custody in a participating jail, the participating jail is off line, the offender is in the process of a transfer, or the spelling of the offender’s name does not match the booking data.

• Enter the Last Name and First Name of the offender.
• The spelling must be correct or you will not locate the offender.
• The offender’s name, custody status, age and facility are listed.
• Click on the More Info link to see more information.

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• The additional information includes the offender’s Date of Birth, gender and Offender ID.
• The offender’s photo is also available, if provided by the facility.
• To protect the victim, photos are not automatically shown.
• Click the Show Photo link to see the photo.
• Click the Notify Me of Status Changes box to begin the registration process

for this offender.

• You can chose to be notified via phone, text, email, or TTY
• You can enter additional registrations for each method.

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• Enter your information based on the notification method you choose.
• You will need to enter a PIN as part of your registration process.
• Remember, the PIN does not to need to be complicated.
• You can edit or disable your phone registration(s)

by clicking on the EDIT YOUR REGISTRATION link.

• You can find additional state resources and print a VINE brochure by

clicking on the DISCOVER MORE STATE RESOURCES link.

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• VINELink also has

access to:

• Department of

Homeland Security.

• Status on persons
• n an immigration

hold.

• You must have the

correct spelling of the person’s name and the country of their birth.

• IVINS: Interstate

Compact Victim Notification Service.

• Status on

probationer or parolee requests for interstate transfer.

What VINE Is Not

• VINE does not track offenders through the criminal justice system. VINE
• nly notifies victims on an offender’s custody status change in a

participating Colorado jail.

• VINE Does not notify a victim on court hearings or other critical stages.
• VINE does not notify victims regarding protection orders or other court documents.
• VINE does not notify victims when an offender is incarcerated or released

from the Department of Corrections, the State Mental Health Hospital, or Community Corrections.

• Colorado Department of Corrections does not currently use VINE as a notification
• system. The have their own notification system
• VINE Does not notify victims or keep any data on those Colorado jails not

currently on VINE.

Questions @ VINELink?

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ArrestWatch

• ArrestWatch is a system that notifies a registrant when an offender

has been arrested.

• The arrest can be based on a warrant or any other offense.
• ArrestWatch is a free service, and it is a secure site.
• Victim Advocates, law enforcement, and some victim service

providers are given permission for this site.

• Those users can register a victim/survivor or other registrant for notification

when an offender has been arrested.

• Colorado is a beta site for this ArrestWatch service.
• You can find ArrestWatch

using a search engine, such as Google.

• Do not click on the

ArrestWatch link. That link has great information about ArrestWatch, but no link to log on.

• Click on the ArrestWatch

log in link.

• Bookmark the ArrestWatch

log in in your favorites.

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• This is a secure site.
• You must receive user

permission from the State Administrator.

• You will receive an

email with your username (usually your email address), a temporary password, and instructions on how to register and change your password.

• There is a 24-hour

time frame to register.

ArrestWatch

• You must enter the

Offender’s First and Last Name and Date of Birth.

• You must enter the

Offender’s Gender

• You can enter the Offender’s

Race or leave the entry as Unknown.

• These are required fields.
• You do not need to enter

the Offender’s SSN.

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• You can register a person to

be notified by phone, email, or text.

• The person does not have to

be the victim.

• You can register by phone,

and email, and text; but you can only use each method

• ne time.
• If you want more than one

notification per method, you must enter an additional registration for the offender.

• You must enter a PIN.
• The PIN is only used to stop

phone notifications, but it is required for any method of notification.

• If you have the information, enter it into the VOCA Information boxes.
• Click the Create button, and your registration is complete.
• The registration is entered in Warrant Jail in VINEWatch.

ArrestWatch

• When an offender is arrested and placed in a participating jail, their

ArrestWatch registration is automatically transferred to the facility where the officer is incarcerated. A victim/survivor does not have to re-register in VINELink for the offender.

• The victim/survivor will be notified of any custody changes of that
• ffender.

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Questions @ ArrestWatch?

VINEWatch

• VINEWatch is the background system for VINELink and ArrestWatch.
• VINEWatch houses all of the offender custody data from the participating

Colorado jails, the Division of Youth Services and Warrant Jail. This data is stored for 14 days after the offender’s release.

• VINEWatch also houses all of the victim registration and notification data
• n each offender.
• VINEWatch can be used to find a victim’s PIN, or edit/stop a victim’s registration.
• VINEWatch keeps registration and notification data for years, and can be used to

locate that data if there is a question whether a victim was notified of an offender’s

• release. This is especially helpful in a VRA complaint.
• VINEWatch is a free service, and it is a secured site.

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VINEWatch

Click on Colorado to access our site.

• Click on the Colorado Statewide VINE link
• This is a secure site.
• You must receive user

permission from the State Administrator.

• You will receive an

email with your username, a temporary password, and instructions on how to register and change your password.

• There is a 24-hour

time frame to register.

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• VINEWatch has links to notification, registration, offender, and statistic
• reports. And, Offender Search.
• VINEWatch also has information about jails that are not online.
• Reports:
• Notifications
• Information on the actual

notifications sent out to a victim or other registrant.

• Click how you want to

search for the notification:

• Offender
• Phone/TTY
• Text Message
• Email
• Enter the telephone number,

text number, or email address you want to search.

• Chose which results you want to

search.

• It is best to check for All Results,

which is usually the default.

• Click the CREATE button.

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• You can view all of the

notifications delivered by the method you chose.

• With Begin and End

Dates.

• Notification results.
• ID – Offender ID

number.

• Click the yellow “I” box

to see more details of the specific notification.

• You can view the specific

notification History Report.

• Time Stamp
• Results
• Reports:
• Registrations
• Information on the actual

registrations that have been made for an

• ffender.
• Click how you want to

search for the notification:

• Offender
• Phone/TTY/Text Message
• Email

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• You can determine the

Registration Status.

• You can determine a

Registration Type.

• You can leave that button in

the default.

• You can enter a start date.
• Enter the telephone

number, text number, or email you want to search.

• Click the CREATE button.
• You can view all of

the registrations from the method you chose.

• Date
• Type
• PIN
• Offender ID, Name,

and Agency

• Click on the yellow

“I” box for more details on the specific registration.

• A new box will

appear with more details on the specific registration.

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• Reports:
• Offenders
• Registration

information and custody data for inmates in a specific facility.

• You must select an

agency.

• The default for the

search criteria does not include “With Registrations”

• If you want to search

for only inmates with registrations, select “With Registrations”

• Select the jail you want to search.
• You can select the data on a specific inmate by clicking the blue

Offender Identification Numbers (OID)

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• Photos are not

automatically shown.

• Click the show photo to

display the booking photo, if the Offender Photo is Available.

• There is also the ability to shut down the availability to see the offender’s photo by

clicking the yellow arrow on the Display Mugshot link.

• This shuts down the ability to see the booking photo on VINEWatch and VINELink
• This is available permission only.

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• Offender Information
• Registration

details for the

• ffender.
• PIN information

for each of the telephone and text registrations.

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Clicking on the Notification Report button at the top of the Offender Detail page gets the notification and registration details specific to that offender.

Click the yellow “I” box to see more details of the specific notification. (Just as in the Registration details under Reports.)

• Warrant Jail
• Information from the

registrations entered into ArrestWatch.

• Under Offenders

Report.

• Scroll down to

Warrants.

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• Reports:
• Statistics
• Gather information about

the use of VINE in a specific county.

• All agencies (Colorado state) statistics.

VINE Map

http://dashboard.vineapps.com/

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• Search:
• Offenders
• Locate a specific offender
• Click on Last Name and

enter the name of the

• ffender in the next

screen.

• Choose a

specific agency,

• r leave in All

Agencies

• Enter the Last

and First name

• f the offender.

VINEWatch

• VINEWatch also has the ability to shutdown an offender’s custody

information.

• This is useful in a high-profile arrest
• This can be done by the State Administrator, or with permission from the

State Administrator.

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Justice Intelligence (formally JusticeXchange)

• An investigative tool that holds booking records and offender data

from more than 31 states, including Colorado.

• Justice Intelligence provides law enforcement investigators with real-

time data.

• Justice Intelligence provides law enforcement investigators with many

tools, including:

• Person searches
• Creating a Subject Watch
• Creating photo lineups and posters
• NPLEx searches of pseudoephedrine purchases
• There is no cost for the Colorado database.
• There is a cost for access to the more of the databases or getting additional

watches.

• Person Summary:
• Personal Information from this

booking

• LinkedUp – analytical

information

• Export – export to PDF
• Print – print this summary
• Biographical History:
• Information used in previous

bookings

• Names/aliases
• DOB’s
• Phone numbers
• SSN’s
• Driver’s licenses
• Related Records
• Current/most recent and

previous booking information and photos

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• Related Persons:
• Information on

persons related by booking data.

• Phone

numbers, addresses, etc.

• This

information is also in LinkedUp.

• Booking Detail:
• Personal Information

provided in this booking.

• Name/Aliases
• DOB, etc.
• More Blue Links
• Create a Watch
• Photo History
• Photo Lineup
• Poster
• Booking Information:
• Booking Agency/Holding

Facility

• Booking/Inmate Number
• Booking/Arrest Date
• Days Incarcerated
• Released: Yes/No
• Warnings:
• If entered by holding

facility

• Personal Information:
• Provided in this booking.
• Physical Characteristics:
• Scars/Marks/Tattoos
• If entered by holding

facility.

• Booking Charges:
• For this booking.

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Justice Intelligence – Tools

LinkedUp – analytical tool Create Watch – create watches for arrest and release Photo History – past booking photos Photo Lineup – create a photo lineup Poster – create a wanted/BOLO poster

Justice Intelligence – LinkedUP

• Shows related persons,

documents, phone numbers, addresses and vehicle information.

• Data is drawn from

booking data of your subject and other

• ffenders.
• I.E., Offenders have used

the same address or phone number during their booking process at any time.

• If you see several

addresses related to your subject, that address could be an apartment complex.

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Justice Intelligence – Create Watch Justice Intelligence – Create a Watch

• A subject watch can be created from the WATCH tab in your

dashboard, or in the Create Watch link in the Booking Detail page.

• Use the WATCH tab to enter a person who is not in the Justice Intelligence

System.

• Using the Create Watch link from the Booking Detail page will pre-populate

the boxes in your watch.

• Under the free Colorado service, you are allocated 100 watches in

Justice Intelligence.

• This is for watches only, you have unlimited person searches under the

Colorado service.

• Biographical:
• Is pre-populated in

Create Watch link

• If not populated,

enter any known information into the boxes.

• Clicking on the plus

signs allows you to add additional information such as another address, name, or phone number

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• Notification Options:
• Your email is already

populated into the watch.

• You can send notification of

this watch to other law enforcement personnel.

• Use the plus sign to add

more email addresses.

• DO NOT send a notification

to a victim/survivor or other non-law enforcement persons.

• Use the notes box to enter

case information about your watch.

• You can set how long you

want the watch to last, and

• f what you want to be

notified.

• Locations
• Leave on All States

Justice Intelligence – Photo History

• You can view

previous booking photos on this subject, if they are available.

• Clicking on the

photos will take you to that booking detail page.

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Justice Intelligence – Photo Lineup

• You can shuffle your

lineup.

• No matter where the

subject is located in the lineup, that person is always labeled.

• After you complete

your lineup, click the View box.

• Single Page PDF
• The first page is the lineup,

numbering each photo.

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• The last page has the photo

lineup with names and DOB’s

• f each person.
• You can print any or all of the

pages or save them on to your computer.

Justice Intelligence – Poster

• From Preview, you

can print your poster in a PDF format.

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Justice Intelligence – Reports Justice Intelligence – Currently Incarcerated

• Shows how many

are currently incarcerated in the Facility.

• If there is not a

photo available, shows this icon.

• You can print or

export to a PDF.

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National Precursor Log Exchange - NPLEx

• A real-time electronic logging and compliance system that tracks sales
• f over-the-counter (OTC) cold and allergy medications containing

pseudoephedrine (PSE), precursors to the illegal drug, methamphetamine.

• NPLEx provides law enforcement investigators with many tools,

including:

• Person searches
• Creating a person watch
• NPLEx searches of pseudoephedrine purchases
• There is no cost for law enforcement.
• www.nplexle.com

NPLEX Store Reports

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NPLEX Store Activity Report NPLEX Store Activity Report

Click on Transaction Number

NPLEX Person Summary

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NPLEX Person Summary NPLEX Person Search NPLEX Person Watch

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Questions?

Anthony Antuna Program Manager 720-344-4618 aantuna@csoc.org