A reader contacted us to say that they wished we would devote less space to the Measure CL school bond and more to other issues such as the disappearance last week of a developmentally disabled teen named Deontay Antone Barlow.
Deontay, who disappeared from his home on Thursday, October 21, was found five days later at a Kaiser Permanante facility in Downey. Claremont Courier reporter Tony Krickl wrote about the happy ending to this story on his Courier City Beat blog.
Our reader wondered why the Claremont Police Department didn't employ their CodeRED system to alert the community immediately after Deontay's family discovered he was missing. CPD's used the system before for community-wide emergencies like fires, so why not in this instance?
The CPD website does list missing persons as one of the emergencies CodeRED is for:
CodeRED WILL BE USED FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
CodeRED is intended to supplement our local law enforcement and public safety first responders with making timely emergency notifications. Examples of its use include:
- Evacuation Notice
- Fires or Floods
- Missing Persons
- Hazardous Material Spills
- Water Contamination
- Identifying Evacuation Centers
- Emergency and Critical incidents where rapid notification is essential.
Now, the CPD did use their Neighborhood E-Watch newsletter to email residents that Deontay had been found. Our reader wonders, why pay spend all that money for CodeRED if we don't use it for something like this?
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