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POLICE LIAISON GROUP “PLG”

aka Schools Unite Network “SUN”

1. About the Police Liaison Group and its major program, the Schools Unite Network

The Police Liaison Group was established as a 501(c)(3) public charity in 1993. Its mission is to prevent
and address crime and to improve the quality of life in New York City by developing, implementing, and
administering initiatives in cooperation with the NYPD, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and
other public and private agencies, elected officials, schools, businesses and community members.

The Police Liaison Group’s major program is the Schools Unite Network “SUN” (www.SUNnyc.org).
SUN is an innovative and unique technology-based youth safety network, activated in cooperation with
the NYPD, serving parents, community members, schools and other agencies. SUN actively engages
thousands of parents and school personnel from over eighty public and private schools across Manhattan
to help reduce juvenile crime and improve the safety of communities. Through the efforts of SUN,
children are able to live and learn in a safer environment, a prerequisite to academic success and personal
safety.

SUN has four primary roles in helping to reduce juvenile crime:

a. Transmitting what are known as “SUN Alerts” to thousands of individuals, including parents;
school administrators in a large majority of the private schools in Manhattan; growing numbers
of public schools; members of many levels of the NYPD, i.e., divisions, squads, precinct
commands, the Transit Bureau, headquarters at One Police Plaza; and members of other public
and private agencies and organizations, including the Manhattan DA’s Office, Family Court
Corporation Counsel, the Parks Department-Parks Enforcement Patrol, a number of local elected
officials, Mayor’s Community Assistance Unit, NYC Department of Education, a number of
Precinct Community Councils, community groups and block associations. By written
agreement, heads of member schools also receive Confidential Alerts containing sensitive
information regarding the safety of their children and facilities. SUN is well-established as a
credible source for providing information verified by the NYPD.

b. Receiving incident reports through its website, and by email, text and telephone, from parents,
schools, community members and others, regarding everything from bullying to bomb threats.
In a number of cases SUN has provided information to the police that they would not ordinarily
receive (because of parents’ fears of repercussions or cultural differences), which is used to
prevent and address suspicious activity and crime involving youth.

c. Transmitting these incident reports relating to preventing or addressing crime to


appropriate decision-makers in the police department for their prompt attention; providing
follow up to SUN subscribers as needed. Schools and names of children involved in an incident
are never disclosed in SUN Alerts.

d. Addressing the needs of juveniles in trouble through referrals to appropriate resources,


including the collaborative oversight and intervention of the police and other city agencies and
nonprofit organizations.

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2. Expansion and goals

SUN is responsible for holding annual safety conferences attended by public and private schools,
members of the NYPD, NYC Department of Education, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
and elected officials. Sponsors of these conferences include schools and other institutions, notably the
92nd Street Y.

The Police Liaison Group and NYC Department of Parks and Recreation (“Parks”) recently executed an
agreement for Parks to participate in the SUN initiative for the purpose of helping prevent and address
youth-related crime in parks throughout Manhattan.

3. Board of Directors and Advisory Committee


Board of Directors

Judge Milton Mollen (ret.), Chairman of the Board. After retiring as the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division
of the State Supreme Court, 2nd Dept., among his many accomplishments Judge Mollen served as NYC’s Deputy
Mayor for Public Safety and oversaw the development of the Safe Streets, Safe Cities Program. He later
investigated police corruption in the 1990s as the chair of what came to be known as the Mollen Commission.

Tina Connelly, Board Secretary and Treasurer. Formerly Vice President of Planning at Warner-Amex Cable
Communications and member of the boards of Collegiate School and West Side Montessori School, Ms. Connelly
has an MBA from Columbia Business School. Her four children are attending, or have attended, public and
independent schools in Manhattan, boarding schools in New York and Connecticut, Yale University and the
University of Miami. Ms. Connelly also serves as co-chair of the Police Liaison Group’s Parent Patrol Committee
for the Schools Unite Network program.

Jill Greenbaum, CEO and Legal Director. In 1993, Ms. Greenbaum founded the Police Liaison Group in response
to deteriorating conditions on the Upper West Side. Ms. Greenbaum is an attorney with additional expertise in
marketing, media and sales. Prior to attending law school and serving as an associate at Shea & Gould, she worked
at WCBS-TV News as an assistant to Jim Jensen and Rolland Smith; and in sales and marketing for Temco Services
Industries, an international, publicly held, commercial building and securities firm with 4,000 32 B-J service
employees. Ms. Greenbaum served as co-chair of the Health & Safety Committee of Stuyvesant High School’s
Parents Association from 2006-08; and as a member of the Juvenile Justice Committee of the City Bar of New York
from 2007-2009. During law school, Ms. Greenbaum was a student clerk for United States District Court Judge
Edward R. Korman in the EDNY, and interned at the United States Attorney’s Office in the EDNY.

Nathan Lubow, CPA. Mr. Lubow is a former partner at KPMG specializing in auditing and accounting, financial
advising, insolvency and restructuring. As head of the Police Liaison Group’s Finance Committee, Mr. Lubow is
responsible for overseeing the organization’s fiscal requirements for the new IRS form 990.

Advisory Committee

Sue Schrock Faron is the Salesforce.com Practice Manager with Buan Consulting, a leading provider in
customizing knowledge management and Customer Relations Management (CRM) solutions that manage data to
optimize performance of businesses and nonprofit organizations worldwide. With over twenty-five years of
experience in database management and implementing custom CRM solutions, Ms. Faron is an expert in the design,
implementation, best practices and training for the CRM known as Salesforce.com.

A Level II Certified Consultant and Practice Leader for the Salesforce.com public sector and non-profit services,
Ms. Faron is instrumental in the Police Liaison Group’s development and implementation of Salesforce.com for its
major program, the Schools Unite Network “SUN.”

Headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland, Ms. Faron also serves clients in Washington, D.C., New York,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey for Buan Consulting (www.buanconsulting.com).

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Debra McEneaney is the co-chair of the Police Liaison Group’s Parent Patrol Committee which oversees the
production of the PLG’s Safety Patrol Maps. Ms. McEneaney has been a resident on the Upper West Side for over
30 years and serves as a Safety Representative for Collegiate School’s Parents Association. In addition to her
activism, Ms. McEneaney is a fashion consultant, with an MBA from Fordham University.

Dr. Terrell Neuage designed our present safety patrol maps which may be downloaded at www.SUNnyc.org. He
has taught technology on university, middle and high school levels. In 2005, he received a Ph.D. in Communication
and New Media from the University of South Australia.

Chauncey Parker is the Director of New York/New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA).
HIDTA is the regional office of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (“drug czar’s office”) and
is led by an executive board of 24 law enforcement leaders of New York and New Jersey. Mr. Parker simultaneously
serves as the Chief of Crime Prevention for New York County District Attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., where he once
served as an Assistant District Attorney prosecuting numerous cases, primarily against major drug trafficking
organizations extending from New York City to Afghanistan and Colombia. He was later appointed as an Assistant
United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York where he prosecuted violent Chinese gangs responsible
for smuggling hundreds of aliens from China into the United States. From the period of February 2002 through
2007, Mr. Parker was appointed by Governor George Pataki to serve as the Director of Criminal Justice for New
York State.

Steven Perez is Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Analysis at the Center for Alternative Sentencing and
Employment Services (CASES), a nonprofit that works with New York City's court-involved youth and adults with
special needs. Previously, he was a consultant at the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit management consultancy, where
he worked with the senior leadership of nonprofits and foundations on a wide range of issues, including governance,
organization development, and grant-making strategy. Prior to joining Bridgespan, Mr. Perez was Business
Development Manager for the Latin America & Caribbean division at Chemonics International Inc., an international
development consulting firm. Mr. Perez is fluent in Spanish, having served as a municipal development volunteer
with the Peace Corps in Honduras.

Cathrine Steck, who was instrumental in the expansion of the Schools Unite Network “SUN” to the Upper East
Side, is an activist and entrepreneur who moved from California to New York in 1995. Ms. Steck is the mother of
two children. She tutors at PS 30 in Mott Haven in New York, and serves on the Boards of NARAL NY, the
National Institute of Reproductive Health, and Search for Common Ground, an international conflict transformation
organization.

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