Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) Program

PROGRAM UPDATES

Tennessee Sheriffs Receive Statewide Automated Victim Information Notification Training

SAVIN Program Manager Ret. Sheriff Beth Ashe and Coalition Executive Director Kathy Walsh recently conducted a Tennessee Statewide Automated Victim Information Notification (TN-SAVIN) training session during the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association's 2008 Training Conference. Arkansas Sheriff Ronnie Baldwin, an executive board member of the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) who serves on NSA's Domestic Violence Committee and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) National SAVIN Standards Committee, was the featured guest presenter. The initial SAVIN kick-off training was held in Louisville , Kentucky earlier this year with project funder, Appriss, Inc.

The TN-SAVIN program is offered at no cost to sheriffs' offices and is scheduled to begin in April. Initially, the program will start up in two selected county sheriffs' offices, with other offices to follow.

Counties that have already enrolled are as follows :

Chester , Fayette, Franklin , Giles, Hamilton , Hancock, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, Madison , Montgomery , Overton, Rhea, Robertson, Sullivan, Sumner, Tipton, Unicoi, Wayne, Weakley, and Wilson

Counties in the process of enrolling are :

Decatur, Hamblen, Hawkins, Marshall, Maury, Roane, White and Williamson

* Davidson and Shelby counties currently have their own offender information programs which are accessible through their individual Victim Information Notification (VINE) Systems. They will hopefully be joining the statewide system upon approval and acceptance of a second BJA SAVIN grant which the Coalition recently submitted.

Regional community awareness and implementation training programs for victim service advocates and additional law enforcement agencies will be scheduled at a later date as county sheriffs' offices come on line. Free victim service brochures and printed materials will be available for distribution in both English and Spanish through the participating agencies.

Keep checking our web-site for future updates and please contact your local sheriff to ask him or her to enroll in the program!