There are probation departments within each of the 22 Judicial Districts. A Chief Judge has the administrative responsibility within each judicial district, and a District Administrator and Chief Probation Officer manage their respective staff within each district. The probation staff provides pre-sentence information to the courts, and supervises offenders who remain in the community instead of incarceration in jail or prison. Development work began on ICON in 1995, with the installation in the final state funded Colorado Court in December 1997. ICON represents a significant improvement in case tracking and financial capabilities for the Department.
ICON also incorporates an automated system for case tracking in the area of probation.
The ICON system consolidates court and probation processing into one system. This allows the probation departments in all 22 judicial districts to be fully implemented real-time with the courts. ICON enables probation officers to track anyone on probation from intake through the completion of probation. The database includes basic demographic information, individual assessment instruments, case tracking, financial tracking, case planning, officer narratives and automatically receives court disposition information. The Colorado Judicial Branch has also developed a PC based jury management system and successfully migrated all of the old data from the mainframe system to the new system.