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Sarasota News Leader September 20, 2013 Page 99 Siesta Seen Osborne pointed out that the dispatcher in that incident was new and did not understand that it was unnecessary to have a caller meet a deputy. "All you have to do is say, 'I'm at Access 5,'" for example, Osborne told her. When the dispatcher relays that detail to a deputy, he said, the address automatically pops up in a display in the officer's vehicle. "If you don't feel comfortable leaving your home," Osborne added, "don't." In response to another question, Osborne said Dispatchers may take up to 400 calls in a typ- it is untrue that a report is not to be written ical shift, he explained. "Sometimes, they'll about a disturbance if the person who called to complain refused to meet with a deputy. A make mistakes, like all of us." report would be filed regardless of whether An audience member who volunteered to the caller wished to speak one-on-one with an watch out for nesting snowy plovers on the officer, Osborne emphasized. beach this summer complained that she did not always know her location when she called SKA President Catherine Luckner then mentioned reports from neighbors on North Shell for assistance. Neighbors on North Shell Road have complained about people partying with loud music late at night as they enjoy Beach Access 1 at the end of the road. Photo by Rachel Hackney