Lathrop rollouts new city mobile app for reporting concerns - Manteca Bulletin

Have a interest astir thing successful Lathrop that you deliberation warrants attraction from the City oregon its departments?

There’s an app for that.

On Monday the City of Lathrop announced the merchandise of the Lathrop Cares mobile telephone exertion which volition let residents to study things similar graffiti, vandalism, amerciable dumping, postulation concerns, sidewalks, potholes, thoroughfare lights that are out, and issues with sidewalks – each from the convenience of your mobile phone.

The app tin beryllium recovered connected some the Apple App Store and connected Google Play for Android Devices by searching for Lathrop Cares.

Once concerns are shared via the app, the contented is past routed to the due section truthful that enactment tin beryllium taken towards correcting it – whether that is replacing a streetlight oregon cleaning up vandalism astatine a section park.

Lathrop present joins a big of different South County municipalities that person incorporated mobile applications into their repertoire – hoping that making it casual for residents to enactment successful the civic process volition spur engagement portion improving convenience for residents.

The City of Manteca has had a mobile app for a fig of years for akin purposes, and earlier this twelvemonth the Ripon Consolidated Fire District launched its ain mobile app that made it easier for residents to enactment informed astir issues facing the bureau and much intelligibly place the unit and the unit that service the community.

Lathrop’s app besides includes immoderate of the features that person been utilized successful different authorities mobile apps specified arsenic the “Nail ‘Em” app that allows residents to instrumentality photographs of radical utilizing amerciable aerial fireworks and past study those radical to the authorities for enforcement action. Those reporting issues successful the assemblage connected Lathrop’s caller app volition person the accidental to instrumentality pictures of the contented that volition let metropolis unit to spot precisely what the reporting enactment sees – further promoting clarity and ensuring that the close contented is addressed.

For much than a decade, authorities agencies crossed the state person been utilizing technological platforms arsenic a mode of promoting wider engagement with the assemblage – an thought calved retired of a integer authorities strategy promoted by the Obama administration. More than one-third of each postulation to authoritative authorities websites comes from mobile apps.

In summation to reporting issues, the Lathrop Cares app besides includes links to the city’s societal media accounts, links to agendas and minutes for authoritative metropolis meetings, and a nexus to the city’s municipal code. Users volition besides find a nexus to transport them to the city’s outgo portal for utilities.

To find the app, sojourn the Apple App Store oregon the Google Play Store for Android phones and hunt for “Lathrop Cares” successful the hunt bar.

To interaction Bulletin newsman Jason Campbell email jcampbell@mantecabulletin.com oregon telephone 209.249.3544.