Helping law enforcement work together in Franklin County

The purpose of the Justice Integration web page is to provide government agencies and other stakeholders information about the Franklin County Justice Integration initiative. Patrol

The web page will be accessible from the main Franklin County home page.

This web site will serve as a means of communication to enlighten agencies within Franklin County of the opportunity to share law enforcement information across municipal boundaries. It will provide information under the headings Project Overview, FAQs, Project Status and Overall Progress, News, Press Releases as well as other general information, which will be available to view, so stakeholders are up to date.

Communication is essential in any initiative of this size and the web page will aid in this effort. This web page will be continuously updated with more effective and current information to meet the ever-changing requirements of the stakeholders.

Project Overview

When information moves through the justice system via paper, it may not always reach decision-makers in time to be useful. Very often, a suspect may be cited by an officer, released on bail, sentenced, or classified in prison without complete information on his or her identity or background. The real identity or criminal record is often discovered days or weeks after it is required. Often officials never know that they may have a serious offender in their custody. The answer to all these problem situations is justice integration, or more accurately, automation of justice information exchange.

Justice integration is essentially the ability to share critical information electronically at key decision points throughout the justice enterprise.

This information sharing provides the following advantages:

Extends across justice agencies within local government
Provides interactions with justice agencies at the state and federal level
Provides the public with a facility to access information and services available within the justice enterprise

Franklin County Tower - from Bicentennial Park

Since July 2003, Optimum Technology, Inc. (OTECH) has been working with Franklin County ("County") on Phases I and II of the multi-phased, multi-year Franklin County Justice Integration Project ("FCJIP"). The broad scope of the FCJIP is as follows:

Phase I (completed July 2003 - February 2004): Phase I of the FCJI project was completed in February 2004. Highlights of Phase I are as follows:

Develop justice information exchange model (JIEM) for agencies of Franklin County criminal justice community
Create long-term implementation plan
Document detailed functional specifications for Regional NIBRS Repository
Implement initial version of the Franklin County Regional Justice Portal

Phase II (March 2004 - February 2005): Phase II of the FCJI project was completed in February 2005. Highlights of Phase II are as follows:

Implement the Regional NIBRS Repository (incident report data) at FCSO and integrate with FCSO's mobile computing environment
Integrate with the FCSO mobile computing environment to allow validation of incident reports for compliance with the Ohio Incident Based Report System (OIBRS)

Phase III (estimated July 2005 - June 2006):

Make the Justice Portal available to the Central Ohio law enforcement community
Connect the Justice Portal to the Ohio Local Law Enforcement Information Sharing Network (OLLEISN) and the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway (OHLEG)
Expand the scope of the Justice Portal to include new document types such as accident reports and field interviews
Make the Justice Portal accessible through FCSO's mobile data system

Future Phases:

Extend scope to integrate more areas of the Franklin County Justice Enterprise
Extend scope to integrate more data sources from external agencies