Partnership Formed to Provide Sex Offender Information with a Picture Repository

FREDERICK, Md., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual Analytics Inc. (VAI) and Family Watchdog LLC are pleased to announce their newly formed partnership as of January 1, 2009. Under the partnership agreement, Family Watchdog LLC, an expert in the field of sex offender information, will make their National Sex Offender Registry data available through the VAI Data Clarity technologies. This information is updated daily and will provide a real-time integration for agencies already using VAI's DIG and VisuaLinks software products. This high-value source of information will enable law enforcement officers to quickly identify sex offenders in the context of their Federated Search and Analysis by automatically comparing the Sex Offender Registry alongside of their existing local and information sharing sources.

The full production versions of the registry, including offender, offense, sentence, victim, and address information, will be available via the VAI Data Center subscription service, which already provides numerous referential data sources such as the Social Security Death Index containing the social security numbers of over 82 million people who have died since 1963, and dozens of "Most Wanted" and "Major Fugitive" lists from around the globe.

"The Family Watchdog information is a welcome addition to our Data Center and will give our customers the ability to reference sex offender information in context, and in the course of their normal operations," said Bennett McPhatter, COO of Visual Analytics.

The addition of the National Sex Offender Registry, containing over 600 thousand entries covering all 50 states, provides an even greater source of information to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to assist in the apprehension of criminals. Under the agreement, Family Watchdog, LLC will also provide VAI with photographs of the offenders in the registry along with geo- spatial references.

"For years, Family Watchdog has been the most trusted source of sex offender information for communities", said Family Watchdog CEO Steve Roddel, who went on to say, "Our partnership with Visual Analytics will allow law enforcement agencies access to the same information their communities rely on."

VAI will dedicate its own resources toward the integration of the data into its products, services, and existing customer installations. Data will be packaged into one or more online DIG services, product rule descriptions, and other value-added delivery mechanisms for customer markets. The service will be available to customers in the first quarter of 2009.

About Visual Analytics

Visual Analytics Inc. (VAI) is a leading provider of data analytics, decision support, and information sharing solutions for investigating money laundering, financial crimes, narcotics trafficking, terrorism, border security, embezzlement, and fraud in domestic and international commercial and government markets. The Visual Analytics Data Clarity Suite is the gold standard for unparalleled, enterprise-level analytics for organizations requiring the ability to integrate, access, and analyze any size and type of internal, shared, and/or public data stores. VAI's tools are delivering unprecedented results to the analytical community and satisfying the need for better and faster technologies for data analysis and investigative support around the globe. More information on Visual Analytics can be found at www.visualanalytics.com.