He thanked them for their time and attendance. He expressed his appreciation to the Board, the Chairman, and to Diana Metzger for all of their support over the last three to four years. We have made a lot of progress in the area of technology at the County through networking, e-mail, Internet access, and a lot of other systems. The Integrated Criminal Justice System is a system where different department's computer systems are one in the same all the way through. Each department is still able to do their own individual job, but the data flows to the system from one department to the next.
Data is keyed in only once.
This is one system for the criminal justice area. This would include the Sheriff's Office, Jail Management, State's Attorney, Circuit Clerk, Probation and Courts. The Integrated Criminal Justice System Task Force was set up through the Efficiency Study last year. A Resolution that was passed in May of last year included the provisions for the formation of this task force to take a look to see if the County could move towards the Integrated Criminal Justice System. There are four Task Force objectives.