The Office of Information Technology, under the direction of Chief Information Officer Earl Kellow, is comprised of the following three bureaus and one support section. This bureau also includes the new research and development function. Before being transferred to the Department of Corrections this bureau was known as the Justice Data Center and was part of the Florida Supreme Court. The Bureau of Systems Development is responsible for applications software development and maintenance.
Staff includes programmers, systems analysts, and database personnel.
Also, this bureau supervises all contract programmers. This system tracks the institutional and dorm location profile where inmates are housed. The system allows the use of laptops for remote entry of caseload information by probation officers in the field and the uploading of data electronically to the mainframe offender information system. This classification will determine how often the offender is seen in the field and in the office. The contact recording portion of the system was implemented statewide.