Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps is launching the Marion County Sheriff’s Office app.
Cripps says the app will provide a lot of information to those who download it.
“You have a family member or a friend inside the jail that you want to search, keep track of, or if you are a victim and you want to know when the person is released all those features are available. You can also put money on an inmate’s account through this app as well as submitting a tip if somebody in the county has knowledge about a crime or something that is going on in the county that they want to send a tip they can hit the submit a tip button and it will send the tip straight to our office.”
Cripps says the app will also let you keep track of the location of sex offenders in the county. The sheriff’s office will also be able to send push notifications if a road is blocked by a traffic accident or if there is a crime investigation underway that residents need to know about.
Cripps says there is no cost to download the app.
“Taxpayers themselves did not pay for this. This is a benefit through the inmate benefit funds because there are ways for families to get funds for their family members who are incarcerated. I was about to get it through that fund and it is a benefit for the entire county because of it.”
Cripps says the app is currently available for download from the Apple store for those with iPhones and will soon be available through the Google App store for android phones. He says search for Marion County Sheriff’s Office, with an apostrophe in Sheriff’s. The app has a green colored background.
More features of the new Marion County Sheriff’s App.
