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Speaker 1: GPS and radio tracking devices can be life saving for

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Speaker 1: people with autism or dementia, helping them be found quickly

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Speaker 1: and safely if they wander or run off. However, at

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Speaker 1: around five hundred to six hundred dollars for a device

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Speaker 1: before fees, it can be a big financial burden as well.

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Speaker 2: It can add up, especially around this time of year,

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Speaker 2: and it can be so restrictive for families that they

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Speaker 2: need to make a decision as to whether or not

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Speaker 2: they're going to do that, or they're going to put

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Speaker 2: up a fence, or they're going to find an alarm

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Speaker 2: system or something along that line.

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Speaker 1: That's Mansfield Police Chief Ronald sell On. He helped secure

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in grand money so that families can

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Speaker 1: get these devices free of charge. He says, the next

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Speaker 1: step is making sure people know that they're there to help.

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Speaker 2: And as a father of a child with special needs,

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Speaker 2: you don't want to reach out because you don't want

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Speaker 2: to bother the world, so to speak. But at the

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Speaker 2: same time, there are resources and there are people that

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Speaker 2: are willing to take that extra step. We'll go that

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Speaker 2: extra mile for you from Mansfield. Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 2: News radio