Helping Law Enforcement

The FBI uses donated digital billboards to find fugitives, help local law enforcement, and to boost morale.

• FBI explains digital partnership with billboard companies
• Transcript of statement by Supervisory Special Agent Bret Hovington, Chief, FBI Community Relations Unit
• Photo of FBI award presentation to billboard companies
• CNN report on FBI manhunt using digital billboards
• Digital billboard publicity helps capture FBI fugitive
• Statement in the Congressional Record by Congressman Jimmy Duncan (R-TN) applauding the FBI’s use of digital billboards as an improvement to old wanted posters
• Tip from digital billboard led the identification, capture, and guilty plea for the “Granddad Bandit"
• East Coast Rapist Billboard Campaign

The US Marshal Service uses donated digital billboards.

• Billboard tips lead to arrest in multi-state manhunt
• Article on digital billboards by US Marshal Peter J. Elliott
• The US Marshal Service uses digital billboards in Ohio to aid hunt for sexual predators

State officials use digital billboards

• Georgia announces partnership to use digital billboards
  • Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) says thank you for digital billboards
  • Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) lauds digital billboards
• Florida uses digital billboards
• SC law enforcement letter, September 9, 2009

Local police use digital billboards

• Janesville, WI: the police chief describes an effective local partnership in The Police Chief magazine
• Rochester, MN: the police department explains a local partnership
• Statement in the Congressional Record from Rep. Jerry Moran (R-KS) praising billboards for helping public safety
• City of Kent, WA Police Department support letter
• Digital Leads to Arrest in Salem, OR