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Bicycle Safety
Parents: The following bicycle safety information are great tools to enhance your child’s bicycle safety experience.
EMERGENCY PLANNING
- Personal and Family Emergency Kits
- Business Emergency Planning
- Emergency Communications Information – This is information for communicating during a major area-wide or national emergency, including forming a Family Communications Plan. To register for the Village of Barrington Community Notification System, click here. The Village will use this system to notify you by phone, e-mail or SMS text, of significant safety information.
GET HELP FOR YOURSELF OR OTHERS
- A Way Out – A pre-arrest diversion program connecting individuals with substance use disorders ready for rehabilitation to addiction treatment services.
- B Strong Together – Enhancing the health and well-being of Barrington area children and youth in mind, body, and spirit.
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
Neighborhood Safety
Barrington is one of the safest places to have a home. Unfortunately no neighborhood is completely immune to crime. However, there are steps you can take to help keep your family and your neighborhood safe.
POLICE & LOCAL PROGRAMS
- Police Explorer Program – The Department hosts Law Enforcement Explorer Post 130. This is the link for the National Law Enforcement Exploring website.
- Internet Safety Tips for Parents
Railroad Safety
Operation Lifesaver offers several tips for railroad safety.
STATE LAWS AND LOCAL ORDINANCES
- Barrington Village Code (Ordinances) – A searchable listing of ordinances for the Village of Barrington
- Illinois Compiled Statutes – State of Illinois laws and regulations
STATE AGENCIES AND RESOURCES
- Ready.gov for Illinois – Illinois version of the Federal website www.ready.gov There is a vast amount of information about personal and family emergency planning. Hazards particular to our state are explained including Natural, Man-made and Health related
- Illinois State Police
- Cook County Homeland Security and Emergency Management
- Lake County Homeland Security Unit
- Lake County Emergency Management Agency
TRAFFIC AND CRIMINAL COURT INFORMATION
- Pay Your Traffic Ticket Online OR Request a Court Date – If you recieved a traffic ticket that is eligible for the Traffic Court Diversion Program, you can pay that ticket online and register for the traffic safety school, OR request a court date to be assigned. You are eligible if the officer gave you a Court Diversion Envelope and the ticket is not marked “Must Appear”
- Map to Cook County Traffic and Criminal Court
- Map to Lake County Criminal Court
VICTIM SERVICES
- Illinois Attorney General: Supporting Victims of Crime
- Illinois Automated Victim Notification System – A statewide service designed to empower and protect crime victims while also assisting law enforcement and victim service providers. Illinois AVN is a toll-free, bi-lingual telephone service available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide information about offender custody, case status and for those who register, automatic notification of any change in status.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
- Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists (AAIM)