E-mail for more information. Off Criminal Justice Integration A truly integrated criminal justice system is a concept that has volleyed around state legislatures for many years, but concerns about who would manage the system, how it would work and agencies' protectiveness of their information always kept projects from being implemented. At the time, there was a commission in the Legislature looking at criminal justice issues. In its final session, the commission queried the information systems director from each state criminal justice agency about their various systems and the lack of communication between them. Sybase's Enterprise Connect middleware tools connect each system to a central machine that sees every database as if they were local.
Users can access the system from any legacy system's front-end.
When each agency completes an item of business that affects another agency, it is automatically updated and transferred on the other agencies' system. But with our system, when there's an arrest by law enforcement, that information goes into the arrest and DA's databases, where the information and case numbers are cross linked. So, if a user in the district attorney's system enters the case number, that user can track a subject from arrest to the court and on to any incarceration. This can also be done with prisoner identification numbers and arrest numbers. Law-enforcement agencies in particular are notoriously reluctant to share their databases, and Colorado's agencies were no exception.