Deaf people in Cole County, Mo. can now contact the Sheriff’s Department by sending an email via their cell phones, reported the Jefferson City News Tribune. The email address – leetext@colecounty.org, standing for Law Enforcement Emergency Text – will be monitored constantly by several computers in the sheriff’s office and cost the taxpayers almost nothing. Some say this service may be a first of its kind. “I’ve never seen a law enforcement agency reach out to the deaf community like this,” said Nick Dignan, a church pastor whose parents and grandparents are deaf. source
