Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce launches STAART app [Video]

“People are frustrated, and if you don’t do anything, it’s just going to keep happening,” said Timm Quinn, CEO of the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce, the organization behind the app. “We went around to a lot of businesses and heard a lot of complaints, and we said, ‘There’s got to be something we can do that’s a little more proactive.'”

Out of the complaints came an idea for the “FAST STAART” app.  The free app, available on most major app stores as of Thursday, allows customers to record and report theft.

“All that information goes directly to the merchants, and the merchants can use this evidence to include with their police reports to have more evidence to hopefully get prosecutions, build bigger cases,” Quinn said. “The business owners, the merchants, they’re fed …