McLean County Sheriff -- Introduction To E*Justice

Introduction To E*Justice
Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) has long been a vision for county and state governments. Many jurisdictions have worked hard to bring together police chiefs, sheriffs, district attorneys, public defenders, court administrators, judges, and chief probation officers in an effort to improve the quality and accuracy of information they all use. Too often however, the price tag has been too high and/or security concerns of data access have been too great to proceed with a totally integrated justice information system. With the assistance of numerous members of the justice community, TRW Inc. has now implemented a new cost-effective and secure integrated justice approach that is rapidly being expanded to jurisdictions across the country. The TRW EJustice SystemTM provides a scalable system that is built on the premise that while each jurisdiction has the same basic requirements, there are also variations in implementation of the local justice process. The versatile, modular, and robust design of EJustice allows the core TRW product to be easily tailored to meet those local or regional requirements while providing full compliance with state and national standards. The EJustice System provides these major benefits to the Justice community: Provides electronic information sharing across all criminal justice agencies; Eliminates redundant data entry; Provides a tailorable workflow automation process to maximize efficiency and improve the management and allocation of resources; Provides a proactive notification and message system that builds on the workflow to alert all affected users or organizations of an event within the system that requires their attention or action and allows for data verification by a supervisor Employs a vigorous role-based security system and data audit trail that provide data access to only those with a need to know, thus ensuring citizen privacy; Employs a highly modular design so that changes can be made to one module of the application without impacting other EJustice software capabilities; Major modules for Law Enforcement, Jail Management, and Courts/Attorney Management allow jurisdictions to implement EJustice capabilities in a time-phased cost effective plan; EJustice preserves prior investment in servers and desktop computers since it operates in virtually any environment that supports Oracle and Windows95 or 98; NIBRS and UCR data is collected and validated during initial data entry, making filing monthly reports easier and quicker.

Introduction To E*Justice

Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) has long been a vision for county and state governments. Many jurisdictions have worked hard to bring together police chiefs, sheriffs, district attorneys, public defenders, court administrators, judges, and chief probation officers in an effort to improve the quality and accuracy of information they all use. Too often however, the price tag has been too high and/or security concerns of data access have been too great to proceed with a totally integrated justice information system.

With the assistance of numerous members of the justice community, TRW Inc. has now implemented a new cost-effective and secure integrated justice approach that is rapidly being expanded to jurisdictions across the country.

The TRW E*Justice SystemTM provides a scalable system that is built on the premise that while each jurisdiction has the same basic requirements, there are also variations in implementation of the local justice process. The versatile, modular, and robust design of E*Justice allows the core TRW product to be easily tailored to meet those local or regional requirements while providing full compliance with state and national standards.

The E*Justice System provides these major benefits to the Justice community:

Provides electronic information sharing across all criminal justice agencies;
Eliminates redundant data entry;
Provides a tailorable workflow automation process to maximize efficiency and improve the management and allocation of resources;
Provides a proactive notification and message system that builds on the workflow to alert all affected users or organizations of an event within the system that requires their attention or action and allows for data verification by a supervisor
Employs a vigorous role-based security system and data audit trail that provide data access to only those with a need to know, thus ensuring citizen privacy;
Employs a highly modular design so that changes can be made to one module of the application without impacting other E*Justice software capabilities;
Major modules for Law Enforcement, Jail Management, and Courts/Attorney Management allow jurisdictions to implement E*Justice capabilities in a time-phased cost effective plan;
E*Justice preserves prior investment in servers and desktop computers since it operates in virtually any environment that supports Oracle and Windows95 or 98;
NIBRS and UCR data is collected and validated during initial data entry, making filing monthly reports easier and quicker.