Computer Upgrades to Streamline Sheriff’s Operations

In March, it was discovered that a man had been “misplaced” inside the Oklahoma County jail for eight months.

Some county officers attributed the incident to the fault-susceptible procedure of transporting vital paperwork between the jail and the courthouse by way of hand instead of having efficient automatic structures.

“I’ve been pronouncing that the computer systems ought to begin talking to one another,” Court Clerk Rick Warren informed The Oklahoman on time. “Until the method is computerized, we risk repeating this troubled time and again.”

Now, after gaining approval from the county commissioners at their Sept. 25 assembly, the sheriff’s office has well-known a bid to update its record and prison management structures to the ultra-modern to be had software so that it will streamline records collection and sharing among the sheriff, public defenders, and the district lawyer’s office.

“This is going to make a world of distinction,” stated Danny Honeycutt, felony counsel to the sheriff’s workplace, which manages the county prison. “It has to contend with quite a few of our cutting-edge troubles.”

The preceding pc machine, E-Justice, has been used because 1997 and is “antiquated and no longer being advanced or bought utilizing its dealer,” in step with a memo furnished via the county clerk’s office. The public defenders and the district attorney’s workplace recently upgraded their systems nicely.

Calibre Public Safety, the corporation offering offerings now, won the bid and could improve the structures for $686,000 for the primary yr, including setup and conversion costs. Annual bills in the future will generally be almost $250,000, although the details are still being finalized, Honeycutt said.

“It is a price growth, but it will be powerful,” he said.

Honeycutt said the prison management machine might do such things as song inmates as they move through the courts and reveal their financial institution bills and belongings. The information control machine relates to regulation enforcement and will music reports, traffic tickets, and greater.

A primary focus is ending the paper path, said Caliber spokesperson Deidre Chaney. It may be a yr earlier than the structures are fully operational.

Crook justice reform advocates have widely discussed the need for records upgrades for years.

The Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Advisory Council has a data subcommittee targeted at implementing era upgrades for the duration of the court device.

And the Oklahoma County Jail Trust, a 9-member frame in fee of reforming the prison, wrote in the recently released jail administrator job description that the individual must recognize and use the information to run the jail efficiently.

“This is so critical because it virtually comes down to whether humans are receiving their due method,” said Trustee Francie Ekwerekwu, who sat on the laptop gadget bid evaluation meetings. “Making positive that our structures work efficiently, successfully, and constitutionally is worthwhile.”