This Group provides members a forum to alert neighbors of possible criminal activity in the greater Montclair area, Oakland, CA (OPD Beat 13Z). It also provides a forum to address traffic and pedestrian safety issues, emergency preparedness issues, and other safety and improvement issues in the greater Montclair area.

For more information on the MSIC, go to http://www.montclairsic.org

Guidelines for posting to this Group:

* All Yahoo Group Guidelines (http://groups.yahoo.com/local/guidelines.html) apply to this Group.

* Restrict your comments to crime, traffic and pedestrian, emergency preparedness and other safety and improvement issues in Oakland Police Beat 13Z (Moraga/Thornhill Dr. on the north, Castle Drive on the south, Contra Costa line on the east, City of Piedmont on the west. For a map, go to http://www.montclairsic.org/images/PoliceBeat13ZMap.jpg).

* Keep messages short and factual; shoot for around 100-200 words. Delete any prior posts that are not necessary for understanding your message.

* When you start a new topic be sure to put it in the Subject line. Posting a new topic as a reply to an existing topic makes it hard to follow threads.

* There are times when you will want to reply to the whole group and times when you want to reply only to the sender of the last message. To reply only to the sender, hit the "Reply" button in your E-mail browser, or, if you are on the Group site, hit that "Reply" button. This is the default setting for this Group. If you want your reply read by the entire group, hit the "Reply to All" button in your E-mail browser, or change the "To" section if you are on the Group site.

* When you hit the "Reply" button you also include all postings to the original message along with your posting... so use judiciously and please edit (cut out) unnecessary text below your message.

* It is helpful if posters identify themselves by their full name.

* Please, no commercial advertising.

Thank you.