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Hawaii Attorney General, Maui County Prosecutors
Maui, Hawaii

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"Our office invested over one-hundred hours evaluating various case management systems because we wanted the product that best fit the needs of the department. JustWare's flexibility and the ease in the administration of the system were big factors in our decision to purchase JustWare."
Ben Acob
First Deputy Prosecuting Attorney

March 24, 2006

The Hawaii Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS) is a statewide juvenile information tracking system managed by the Hawaii Attorney Generals Office. Police, prosecutors, correctional staff, courts and the attorney general’s office use the JJIS system to track the status of a juvenile at any time throughout the criminal justice process.

Challenge

Linda Martin, a JJIS staff analyst, said, “Information must be entered into the statewide network within 72 hours. All of the different government agencies were entering data on the juveniles into their own disparate case management systems, then duplicating their data entry to input the information into the JJIS program.”

All the different government agencies were entering their juvenile data into separate case management systems then duplicating their data entry. Data entry staff in the Maui County Prosecutor’s Office entered all case information into JustWare | Prosecutor, and then entered duplicate data into both the JJIS system for juvenile cases and the CJIS system for adult cases.

Different systems did not allow for data sharing for the statewide network. Valuable time was lost in duplicating data between systems.

Data exchanges between jurisdictions could be sluggish, deterring the ability of prosecutors to effectively restore juveniles. Communication between systems was broken.

Solution

Since 2003, the Maui County Prosecutor’s Office has been using JustWare prosecutor software. The Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, a department of the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office, is responsible for Hawaii’s statewide criminal history record information system (CJIS). In early 2005, New Dawn Technologies began work on JusticeBroker, the interface between the prosecutor’s office in Maui County and Hawaii Attorney General’s Office, for integrated case management.

JusticeBroker allows seamless data exchanges to go back and forth from JJIS and CJIS to the JustWare prosecutor software database in the prosecutor’s office. Cases submitted to JJIS and CJIS are assigned case identification numbers automatically and then that information is transmitted back to JustWare. All of these XML data exchanges are done automatically on a schedule; no manual transaction is required.

Centrally locating juvenile information enables agencies to track juveniles through the criminal justice system with the objective of restoring the juveniles to productive citizens.

A Global Justice XML Data Model (Global JXDM) interface developed by New Dawn Technologies enabled the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office to efficiently and successfully manage the state’s juvenile criminals by improving communications between jurisdictions.

Martin said, “We wanted to establish the interface for many reasons. The information was already entered into JustWare. We have similar data exchanges and they are already in XML. We wanted to put that all into one system that all government agencies could access statewide.”

Result

JusticeBroker allows seamless data exchanges to go back and forth from JJIS and CJIS to the JustWare database in the prosecutor’s office. Cases submitted to JJIS and CJIS are assigned case identification numbers automatically and then that information is transmitted back to JustWare. All of these XML data exchanges are done automatically on a schedule; no manual transaction is required. Martin said, “This system is the only one that all users have access to on a statewide level.”


Martin said, “We were very happy with the way New Dawn Technologies was responsive to our questions on a technical level.” She said the JusticeBroker interface was delivered fully functioning, on time and within budget. She praised the custom development team at New Dawn, saying that they were instrumental in handling the issues that arose and keeping the project on schedule.


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