Open Portal Solutions has added CAPTCHA technology to www.BuyCrash.com to provide additional transaction security for clients purchasing collision reports online.

CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test used to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.  (The term “CAPTCHA” is a contrived acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.”)  The process involves asking a user to complete a simple test.  A common type of CAPTCHA requires that a user types letters or digits from a distorted image that appears on the screen.

In addition to the recent CAPTCHA enhancement, many other “behind the scenes” improvements have been made to the www.BuyCrash.com web site to improve the speed and accuracy of search results.

I had the opportunity to represent Open Portal Solutions at the Georgia Chiefs of Police Conference this week. 

The Monday morning breakfast meeting was quite impressive with the color guard kicking off the meeting.

At the OPS exhibit booth on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, I had the opportunity to speak one on one with a number of the police agency chiefs in the convention center.  Each one had good questions about the Georgia Electronic Accident Reporting System (GEARS).  Being able to answer questions face to face really helped the law enforcement leaders understand what we are accomplishing in Georgia.  I had the opportunity to explain the benefits OPS  can provide at the state level—and to individual agencies.

It was a busy 24 hours, but I did have the opportunity to spend a couple of hours Sunday evening in Downtown Savannah.  It’s a really neat city and I had a delicious dinner at the Olde Pink House, a local 18^th century mansion and restaurant.

I really enjoyed meeting so many Georgia law enforcement leaders and look forward to working with them in the future.

According to the AAA Newsroom, the number of Americans traveling this Fourth of July holiday weekend will increase 17.1 percent from 2009, with approximately 34.9 million travelers taking a trip at least 50 miles away from home. Last year, 29.8 million Americans traveled during the same period. 

The Open Portal Solutions team wishes everyone a happy holiday weekend!  Safe travels to all!

Open Portal Solutions is happy to welcome Heather Hacker to the OPS team.  Heather is a solutions coordinator, responsible for working with Georgia law enforcement agencies on the Georgia Electronic Accident Reporting System (GEARS).

Heather earned a bachelors degree in journalism and kinesiology at Indiana University Bloomington.  Welcome Heather!

OPS is excited about the 36th International Forum on Traffic Records & Highway Safety Information Systems from July 25th through 28th in New Orleans.  The Forum brings together federal, local and state officials from all states, territories and other countries.  The conference not only covers the core components of a traffic records system – roadway, crash, driver license, vehicle registration, citation and adjudication, injury and medical care – but also covers the building of systems, management and analysis of data, data standards, special vehicles, GIS/GPS, electronic data capture and use.  Additionally the Forum is not just about the data but how best to use the data in formulating sound safety decisions.  This event is more than attending lectures – it is an opportunity to learn what is happening in Washington DC, to network with peers and across disciplines, to share best practices, to learn about new technologies and resources and meet with vendors to discuss current and future products.

The 2010 Forum has been structured to provide valuable information to professionals from a wide range of transportation and highway safety areas, including:

• Highway traffic safety managers
• Engineers
• Law enforcement professionals
• Health, injury control, emergency, and other medical professionals
• Driver licensing and motor vehicle registration professionals
• Traffic safety analysis researchers and planners
• Data system managers and strategic planners
• Legal, judicial, and criminal justice professionals
• Citizen groups and other public and private representations for highway safety both in the United States and abroad

On-Line registration for the 2010 Traffic Records Forum is now open.  Early registration closes July 9, 2010.

Source:  http://www.trafficrecordsforum.org