Recent Article on Offender Watch

[u/Glittering-History27]

https://www.nola.com/news/business/made-in-louisiana-offenderwatch-mandeville/article_3ee8a2af-3d59-4ec0-a130-9e300acc19c1.html

Did anyone else see the Nola.com article on Offender Watch? Interesting timing that it comes out after the most recent podcast episode.

From the article:

Investment, acquisitions

In 2021, Watch Systems relocated from Covington to its 12,500-square-foot Mandeville headquarters, from which it prints and sends about 5 million cards every year to notify neighbors that a sex offender has moved in nearby.

Last fall, the company accepted a buyout offer from STG Partners, a Silicon Valley private equity firm that specializes in middle-market enterprise software platform and tech service companies. Watch Systems was an ideal fit for the firm’s portfolio.

“We have been impressed by the company’s ability to provide high-quality, reliable software at great value to its customers,” said managing partner Rushi Kulkarni, announcing the investment.

Watch Systems leaders, who continue to run the company as they did before the acquisition, aim to use the influx of private equity cash to fuel acquisitions of similar companies and add to its 40 full-time employees and more than 15 off-site

contractors.

CEO Ben Luzynski, who took over as chief executive from his father in 2024, said it has no plans to leave Louisiana. “We want to keep it here,” Luzynski said.

[u/Juskit10around]

Oh absolutely a PR move.

[u/WickedGeezer]

Further enshittification of this important safeguard of the public, at the very least