Cook County Judicial System Set To Explore Data-sharing
From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
With so many moving parts and elected offices involved, it’s not always easy to get every key player in the Cook County criminal justice system to agree.
But when it comes to adding tools to share data between their different offices, everyone is, quite literally, on the same page.
Chief Circuit Judge Timothy C. Evans, Circuit Clerk Dorothy A. Brown, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, State’s Attorney Anita M. Alvarez, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart and Public Defender Abishi C. Cunningham have all signed a memorandum of agreement that took effect this month.
The Cook County Integrated Criminal Justice Information Systems Committee was formed by the county board in April 2002 and tasked with finding a way to share data among the various agencies and replace paper-based, often handwritten record-sharing procedures with digital ones.
The six offices signed a memorandum of agreement that they hope will make transferring data between law enforcement, court staff, judges and attorneys more accurate and efficient.
The eight-page document does not provide specific details about what data will be transferred but serves as a broader outline for individual agencies to make sharing arrangements with each other.
The signing of the document allows the county to release a request for proposals later this month to procure the necessary technology.
Read more in our daily News Update...
From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
With so many moving parts and elected offices involved, it’s not always easy to get every key player in the Cook County criminal justice system to agree.
But when it comes to adding tools to share data between their different offices, everyone is, quite literally, on the same page.
Chief Circuit Judge Timothy C. Evans, Circuit Clerk Dorothy A. Brown, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, State’s Attorney Anita M. Alvarez, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart and Public Defender Abishi C. Cunningham have all signed a memorandum of agreement that took effect this month.
The Cook County Integrated Criminal Justice Information Systems Committee was formed by the county board in April 2002 and tasked with finding a way to share data among the various agencies and replace paper-based, often handwritten record-sharing procedures with digital ones.
The six offices signed a memorandum of agreement that they hope will make transferring data between law enforcement, court staff, judges and attorneys more accurate and efficient.
The eight-page document does not provide specific details about what data will be transferred but serves as a broader outline for individual agencies to make sharing arrangements with each other.
The signing of the document allows the county to release a request for proposals later this month to procure the necessary technology.
Read more in our daily News Update...