By Georgio Sabino III
CEO & Founder, GoVia – Highlight A Hero
A Community Police Safety App
Across America, citizens, families, and civil rights organizations share a common concern: How do we make police encounters safer, more transparent, and more accountable for everyone involved? Every day, approximately 50,000 drivers are pulled over in the United States — more than 20 million people each year. Meanwhile, cities and states collectively face more than $3.2 billion in police-related misconduct payouts, a cost paid not only in dollars but in trauma, distrust, and lives disrupted.
This reality is why I created GoVia Highlight A Hero, a patented community police safety system designed to bring modern, professional support directly into the moment of a police encounter. Our mission is simple and urgent: provide real-time protection, legal oversight, mental-health support, and transparency so that officers and citizens can interact with mutual safety and respect.
Today, over 31,000 users worldwide have signed up — proof that people everywhere want a new model for public safety.
A Modern Safety Net: Real-Time Attorney & Mental-Health Support
GoVia is the first community-driven app that integrates:
- Live-streamed legal support
- Licensed mental-health professionals
- Recorded Zoom sessions during police encounters
- Instant documentation for accuracy and accountability
- A public safety rating system highlighting 5-star officers
When a user activates GoVia during a traffic stop or street encounter, a licensed attorney and a mental-health specialistjoin the livestream instantly. The call is recorded, stored, and secured. Their presence is professional, calm, and evidence-based — reducing the possibility of escalation and ensuring that both the citizen and the officer act within best practices.
This is community safety at a new level.
Protection Before the Officer Even Approaches the Window
Each GoVia user receives a vehicle bumper sticker reading:
“This Vehicle Is Protected by GoVia – Live Attorney & Mental Health Support Active.”
This early warning isn’t confrontational — it’s professional. Officers are informed immediately that this is a protected interaction with legal and mental-health oversight. That alone has the potential to dramatically reduce unnecessary conflict, misunderstandings, and abuse.
Modern Technology Supported by Real Accountability
GoVia isn’t just an app — it’s a movement.
We hold two granted U.S. patents and one patent pending, covering our crisis-streaming system, officer-rating platform, and safety workflow. These protections validate our innovation and confirm GoVia as the first solution of its kind.
Our integrated rating system also allows citizens to highlight heroes in law enforcement — the many officers who do their jobs with integrity, compassion, and excellence. Public safety improves when good officers are recognized, supported, and empowered, not ignored.
A Call to Civil Rights Leaders, Community Organizers, and Public Safety Advocates
Organizations committed to civil rights, social justice, and community empowerment have always responded quickly when the topic is public safety reform. Your leadership, your voice, and your networks are essential in advancing innovative solutions like GoVia.
We welcome partnerships with:
- NAACP chapters
- ACLU state divisions
- Urban League affiliates
- Community safety nonprofits
- Faith-based coalitions
- Public health and mental health organizations
- Youth justice movements
- Police reform advocates
Together, we can help make every police encounter safer, more transparent, and more human.
Voices of Support
Dr. George C. Fraser – Global Leadership Icon & Mentor
“GoVia is the future of community safety. When we connect the dots — technology, justice, and empowerment — we create real change. And we can do this.”
Les Brown – World-Renowned Motivational Speaker
(Endorsed by video message to GoVia)
Isaiah N. Johnson – NFL Player, Los Angeles Rams
(Endorsed by video message to GoVia)
These leaders recognize what GoVia represents: innovation with impact, designed not just to critique the system, but to improve it.
A Path Forward
Police officers deserve to go home safely. Citizens deserve the same.
Mental-health moments need compassion. Traffic stops need fairness.
Every community deserves justice, security, and transparency.
GoVia Highlight A Hero is building that future now.
This is not just an app.
This is accountability.
This is safety.
This is community.
And together — in the words of Dr. George Fraser —
“We can do this.”
