This information can be used to increase public safety through aggressive monitoring and enforcement, community notification, mapping, and community and criminal-justice training. The Indiana Department of Revenue partnered with tax software vendors to develop a program that would include a 2D Barcode on a tax return when printed from any personal computer. Paid tax-preparers and taxpayers use the software to fill out their tax form, print the return and mail it in rather than filing electronically. The barcode is scanned by the state s computer system and is able to capture all tax return data, attached schedules and up to 10 W-2 forms. Tax information is loaded into the state s system much more quickly.
Mentors help clients remove obstacles to finding and keeping a good job.
The Division of Personnel Services worked with employment managers from other state agencies to design an employee recruitment and selection process that uses a qualitative approach to identify and measure the skills required for state jobs. The process focuses on the quality of work, rather than the amount of time spent on it. This program is a collaboration between the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections and Crayons to Computers, a nonprofit free store for teachers in Cincinnati. Inmates at state prisons make flashcards, journals, book bags and other items from surplus products donated to Crayons to Computers. Teachers can take these items, at no cost, to students and classrooms in the area's neediest schools.