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The Electronic Paging Program, or EPP, is an accurate, cost-effective method for tracking the locations of offenders who are permitted outside the facility. These individuals include participants on work release or on furlough. When participants have outside itineraries approved, they are issued pagers and explicit instructions about how to respond to a page. At random times throughout the day, a staff member will page an individual and the participants’ return calls must pass through an encrypted caller identification unit and a digital logger/voice recorder, which allows staff to positively identify the participant as well as the location they are calling from. The pagers are number-protected to guard against abuses.
Outgoing and incoming calls are automatically logged, recorded and time-stamped, and a positive identification of the participant’s location is printed. If a participant is calling from outside the parameters of his itinerary, it is noted in the computer and a hard-copy report is printed and the referring agency is notified of the infraction. Hard copies of daily, monthly and annual reports of all activities are also provided.
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