Neighborhood Watch Website Founder, Larry Whitaker
August 2021
Neighborhood Watch dedicates this special page to honor Larry Whitaker for his decades-long commitment to the residents of Sun City Lincoln Hills. Our all-volunteer organization, has benefited greatly from Larry’s countless hours spent developing and maintaining the Neighborhood Watch website—it has truly been a labor of love.
With a MSEE from Stanford University and years of experience with computers (Larry was the Founder & President of Halcyon Communications and VI Labs) in 2005 when Neighborhood Watch put out a call for a “Tech Design Assistant,” Larry was more than qualified to design the Neighborhood Watch website.
His goal was to focus on establishing an effective Neighborhood Watch Communications System. He saw the importance of posting important documents like the nationally recognized Vial of Life Program (Lifesaving Information For Emergencies) and emergency medical information forms to the Neighborhood Watch website. Utilizing his own webhosting account Lincal.com, Larry developed and implemented the NW Alerts email system which allows residents to sign up (online) to receive security information, safety alerts and monthly newsletters.
Of special importance was the addition of an automated “Add me to alerts” option that allows residents to be automatically enrolled in the NW Alerts Program. This resulted in over 4,000 Sun City Lincoln Hills Residents receiving Neighborhood Watch Safety and Security Information delivered directly to their inbox.
Larry continued to improve the Neighborhood Watch website by adding official email addresses created exclusively to distribute information to Board Members, Advisory Groups, Mailbox Captains, and Coordinators.
Throughout the years, Larry’s innovations have brought constant improvements and ensured the Neighborhood Watch website is user friendly. Its success is directly attributable to Larry’s many years of dedication and his generosity in privately funding the Neighborhood Watch website since its inception
Neighborhood Watch bestows its profound gratitude to Larry Whitaker, the founder and curator of its website evolution—Thank you Larry!