Fw: Meeting w/Sheriff Hamilton

[Jessica Zak]

Hello Everyone,      How are you?  Hey this meeting is set to have John explain to us what kind of program he is attempting to implement with the Sheriff's Dept.  It is very important that everyone attend.  Feel free to call me if you have any questions.  Jessica Zak Austin Bail Bonds 512-320-0800 (#168761) Bulldog Investigations 512-826-1253 (#A14005) Austin Texas Bail Bonds 512-633-2262 (#234577) *Conscience is the voice of God in the Nature and Heart of Man* --- On Wed, 4/28/10, Jeannie Maldonado <Jeannie....@co.travis.tx.us> wrote: From: Jeannie Maldonado <Jeannie....@co.travis.tx.us> Subject: Meeting w/Sheriff Hamilton To: "Greg Hamilton" <Greg.H...@co.travis.tx.us>, "Russell Hahn" <Russel...@co.travis.tx.us>, "Shelly Eaton" <Shelly...@co.travis.tx.us>, Aro...@yahoo.com Cc: "Jeannie Maldonado" <Jeannie....@co.travis.tx.us> Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 1:17 PM Item Type:  Appointment Start Date:  Monday, 10 May 2010, 11:00:00am (Central Daylight Time) Duration:  1 Hour Place:  TCSO, Ruiz Building, 5555 Airport Blvd., Admin Conf Room Note: this meeting has been rescheduled to Monday, May 10th at 11:00 a.m. (04/28/2010) *** Sheriff Hamilton would like to invite you to attend a meeting on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Sheriff's office located at 5555 Airport Blvd. in the Admin Conference Room to discuss computer programming.  Parking is available in front of the building facing Airport.  Please check in with the receptionist with your ID. Attending: -Greg Hamilton -Shelly Eaton -Russell Hahn -Jessica Zak -John Zavala, Around The Clock Bail Bonds, 228-4197 Please confirm your attendance. Thank you, Jeannie Jeannie Maldonado Executive Assistant to Sheriff Greg Hamilton Travis County Sheriff's Office 5555 Airport Boulevard Austin, TX 78751 (512) 854-9788 Office (512) 854-3289 Fax jeannie....@co.travis.tx.us

[JOHN ZAVALA]

Sheriff meeting attendees,

    I want to clarify the agenda for next Mondays meeting. It's my understanding that this meeting is to better explain what is available through the Sheriff's Departments website. I believe Jessica thinks we are having a program developed for the Sheriff's Departments use according to the email that was sent to all bondsmen. The Sheriff has decided to add new features to the website to help us all. Since we probably know more about the features at this time we will be glad to meet with y'all and the Sheriff to discuss what is available. The new features offered by the Sheriff's Office are available to anyone to use as they see fit, as it is public data. I don't want to offend anyone at the meeting so I wanted express my understanding of this agenda.

    Now that the Sheriff's new features are online and available to all of us; we are developing software to utilize it in house. Bondsmen normally don't share proprietary information or strategies with their competition such as reviewing each others ads, paperwork, marketing plans, etc... nor should anyone ask to review a proprietary software that we have spent many man hours on and thousands of dollars developing.


John A. Zavala
Around The Clock Bail Bonds

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[Debby Ojeda]

It was my understanding from the what I heard that Sheriff Hamilton said (and I wasn't at the meeting) that this was being developed for all the bondsmen equally, thus the cooperation and attention from the County.  I am not sure how ads, marketing plans and strategies are relevant to the public information being provided by the county unless, of course, the public information is used for solicitation purposes, then that is an issue to be addressed and looked at. --- On Thu, 5/6/10, JOHN ZAVALA <bond...@gmail.com> wrote:

[JOHN ZAVALA]

Debbie,

You are exactly right. All the new features are available to everyone on the Sheriffs website.



John A. Zavala

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John A. Zavala
Around The Clock Bail Bonds

"Its better to know me and not need me, than to need me and not know me"

[Debby Ojeda]

Again, I think the real issue is and should be whether or not this is being used for solitation purposes and that needs to be addressed.