The Craighead County Sheriff’s Department says smartphone users can find out who is in the detention center, as well as those who have been released. Craighead County Sheriff Marty Boyd says a free mobile app is now available that will allow for more transparency into the detention center. According to the Sun, the app is an extension of the Relativity Police Systems, which is a jail management software company. The app will allow people to see who has been placed in the facility, which people have been released, as well as photos, charges, court dates, and bond. The app has been up over a week now and is available for IOS and Android devices. The app can be found by searching for “realitivtyinc” in their app store and selecting “RPS-Inmate Info”. The Craighead County Sheriff’s office can then be selected from a list. Boyd tells the Sun the app was provided by the same company that provides computer software and programs to the sheriff’s office and detention center. There is no cost to the county.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.