streamWrite is once again attending the NACM Annual Conference, taking place in Milwaukee, WI from July 10-14. We look forward to re-connecting with friends, customers and colleagues. We invite you to visit our exhibit at booth #407.
The theme of this year's conference is Courts Leading the Way in Advancing Justice: a Call to Action, which calls upon Courts and court leaders to take charge of leading the way to advancing justice and transforming their future.
For more details on the conference, including registration and the on site and live streamed agenda, please visit: https://nacmnet.org/conferences/2022annualconference-2/#1618236499105-7daf0119-8a55
In a previous post, I discussed the importance and value of providing outbound court notifications. Today we'll take a look at some best practices for sending effective outbound notifications.
Notification Content
There are multiple posts and sources, including the link below, which cite that reminding people of court dates, when combined with other messages regarding the consequences of FTA (failure to appear), is more effective than just sending date, time and location notifications.
In addition, notifications are being customized with remote appearance instructions (number to call along with PIN, or video link information) or Covid-related instructions, such as "if you are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or have tested positive in the last 10 days, please call the court."
Frequency and Quantity of Messages
Depending on the type of event, consider sending multiple notifications leading up to the event date and time. In the example of an upcoming hearing, an initial notification might be sent two weeks before the hearing date, followed by additional reminders one week, one day and two hours prior to the scheduled time. It can also be beneficial to send notifications after events for FTA or past due payments.
Notification Methods
It can be useful to provide notifications in multiple ways, and if sending multiple notifications for a single event, it might be good to combine different types of notifications, such as post cards, emails, automated calls and text messages.
The New York City Criminal Justice Agency has provided a comprehensive publication that shares summary data from multiple studies, and delves deeper into best practices, including data collection, messaging templates, when to send notifications, how to evaluate the success of your program and more.
https://www.nycja.org/publications/court-date-notifications-2
ATI Connect is excited to return to the NACM Annual conference next week in San Diego, and we look forward to building new relationships as well as seeing our long-time friends and colleagues.
Patrick Bahar and Victor Aranda will be at booth #112 and will be sharing advancements ATI have made in the past year with the streamWrite Portals platform and the exciting plans we have to help Courts improve access to justice and move toward the digital courtrooms of the future.
Stop by booth #112 to say hello and learn more.
When it comes to making payments, calling into an IVR may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Personally, online banking is how I like to take care of regular monthly bills - it's fast and convenient.
However, for organizations across multiple industries, offering payment by IVR as an option is still an important channel, for a number of reasons:
1) Other payment methods may have been affected such as in-office payments due to the pandemic.
2) Customers calling customer service to ask questions about the bill prior to paying want a convenient and secure way to pay by phone. Transferring the caller to the IVR for payment is simple, effective, and efficient, and addresses PCI compliance concerns.
3) Despite the naysayers, offering IVR as a payment option increases revenues. The percentage of overall revenues IVR can represent varies greatly, and can depend on many factors (ease-of use, how it's promoted, etc.). For some customers, IVR can be very seasonal, where 90% of the use is just during a few days of the year, but is a must-have because IVR contributes significant revenues.
4) For healthcare customers that have added IVR payment as option, it's not uncommon to see IVR payments represents 18%-20% of all monthly revenues received.
5) Offering an additional payment method to the customer, when properly implemented, leads to higher customer satisfaction.
5) It is available 24/7.
Cloud-based IVR removes previous barriers of premise based systems, often with a fast implementation, and a low set up cost. Contact us for consultation on how we can help make this happen for your organization.
In a ruling on Wednesday, Canada's privacy commissioners have ruled that Clearview's Facial Recognition AI is mass surveillance and violates individual privacy rights. Commissioners have ordered the company to delete images from its database.
Clearview has been the subject of investigations for its practices, including the controversial scraping images from social media profiles. Clearview argues that facial images on social media is publicly available information. While the company has agreed to stop offering its services in Canada, it has not agreed to remove the faces.
Companies like Clearview aim to profit by, and assist law enforcement agencies in solving tough cases. It saw a 26% spike on January 7th, the day after a mob of rioters raided the US Capitol, as law enforcement officials sought to track down the perpetrators.
This is a certainly a thought-provoking topic, and prompts questions about where to draw the line between protecting individual privacy rights vs public safety and bringing criminals to justice. What do you think?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/4/22266055/clearview-facial-recognition-illegal-mass-surveillance-canada-privacy