Police officers submit photographs, video and written reports to the records department, which digitizes the items and 911-call tape via an SGI O2 Unix workstation running Irix 6.3. A program that systems administrator Dave Richards wrote categorizes the elements by case number and builds them into a Web page for authorized access. State's attorneys review the information for bail recommendations, and the center contacts victims to offer assistance. With the help of BellSouth Business of Atlanta, DeKalb County in August launched an electronic commerce application for the county's 600,000 residents. The system's Web site received half a million hits within two weeks of its debut, said Jeanette Rozier, clerk of Superior Court.
Users can access deed records and pay property taxes and motor vehicle fees online.
System data resides in an Oracle Corp. database kept by the county. AMS will work on the Integrated Tax Information Management System, a project that will streamline the state's tax administration process. AMS will receive payment only after results are achieved and missing tax money is collected. The grant included ESRI's ArcInfo, ArcView and MapObjects packages, plus 18 vendor certificates for planning, zoning and permit tracking. The county is starting to work on a geographic information systems project with Sun Valley.