AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2008 Awards: Data, Information and Knowledge Management
RECIPIENT:
Pennsylvania - JNET Statewide Consolidated Warrant Search
The Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET) is the Commonwealth’s primary public safety and criminal justice information broker. Through the full commitment of its member agencies, leadership, and staff resources, JNET promotes safe communities throughout the Commonwealth by providing a secure integrated justice system to all of Pennsylvania’s public safety partners. The secure portal of JNET connects over 33,000 authorized practitioners throughout the Commonwealth’s sixty-seven counties to critical information from various contributing municipal, county, state, and federal agencies.
Information systems connected to JNET benefit from its vast data exchange and messaging capabilities, while JNET users benefit from over fifty secure criminal justice and public safety applications. These applications include access to the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC), Department of Welfare (DPW), Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP), Juvenile Court Judges Commission (JCJC), as well as many additional inquiry sources.
One of the most notable benefits of JNET is the ability to access active warrant information through three separate warrants sources: summary warrants issued by the AOPC, civil warrants issued in the interest of DPW child support cases, and criminal warrants retained by the PSP and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
While access to these warrant sources is essential, the siloed nature of various warrant information systems required officers to conduct individual searches using three separate applications. This disparate view of warrant information meant that officers did not receive a comprehensive view of an individual’s outstanding warrants at one time. The JNET Consolidated Warrant Search project aimed to reuse existing connections to agency data sources and consolidate warrant information into a single application for law enforcement. The new application would allow users one-stop-shopping when searching for active warrants, thereby increasing justice system efficiencies.
To this end, JNET first implemented a statewide Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) document and procedure process. Leveraging the GJXDM, JNET set out to build a Consolidated Warrant Search Application into the existing Web portal. For integration, JNET deployed an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to facilitate communication and data sharing between participating agencies.
Through the implementation of standardized data modeling, integration technology, and project methodology, JNET began to pilot the first statewide Consolidated Warrant Search Application on October 31, 2007. The application was released to all users shortly thereafter, and is currently experiencing well over 14,000 queries per month.
....Brenda Orth, Deputy Secretary for Information Technology, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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