Possible burglary alert

[mschwartz]

On Oct 24, 2023, at 8:25 AM, Sun City Palm Desert Community Association suncity.pd@scpdca.com wrote:

Residents,

Community Patrol received a report of a possible burglary. The house sitter discovered the screen on the back window torn and the patio lights had been tampered with on October 12. There is no sign of forced entry. All doors and windows were locked and intact. This was reported from Glastonbury Way in District 15.

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Palm Desert California 92211
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[mschwartz]

Perfect example of an alert that belongs here and should NOT be sent out as a newsletter to all our users.

[mschwartz]

Also note the “Update Preferences” and “Unsubscribe” links at the bottom. This site’s emails also have similar links. It’s good practice.

However, the Newsletter function of this site does allow us to override user settings. I would do that for an important newsletter - like meeting announcements.

[POOKS]

That other group that was mentioned as being under tight control was set up for the purpose of the moderator finding light handyman jobs. If you keep that in mind, you wont be disappointed.

[mschwartz]

FYI, I tapped on POOKS’ post and this comes up on the bottom:

I tapped on ^ to upvote their post! (FWIW, I disabled downvotes, just so we don’t get too negative using it!)

[judylerne]

That "alert" went out to all residents as an email blast at 8:47 am this morning. Some if not all of the Delegates sent it out to their residents yesterday so there would be no delay in getting out the information. Not sure how useful it is to duplicate the same alert three hours later here unless there is something to add.

Sounds like our original merry little band succeeded in getting these communitywide alerts sent consistently whenever there's an "incident" and also the planned Town Hall even before we had that first meeting at a neighbor's home. No muss, no fanfare, but effective and cooperative communications with a couple people in the management structure who could make those two things happen; and the night patrols followed from there.

[mschwartz]

It’s a good way to track, publicly, what was sent out. And not everyone is getting the emails from the association.

[Danyelkrae]

@mschwartz thanks for sharing

[mschwartz]

@Danyelkrae said in Possible burglary alert:

@mschwartz thanks for sharing

I didn’t mention that anyone who moves in tomorrow didn’t get this alert email. But they can see the history of the alerts here.

[judylerne]

I believe residents gave to sign up in order to get Association email blasts - not just security alerts but all the other updates. (Residents gave to sign up for this blog as well.). Is the HOA doing a good enough job of reminding everyone to sign up - especially newcomers probably consumed just with the move-in; do we need them to send reminders and not to those already on distribution?

[judylerne]

(Excuse typos in my posts, due to medical/nerve condition in fingers that affect use of touch screens.)