Breakout Sessions

Business Focus (Great Hall North)

Technology Solutions  (Grenada A,B,C)

Electronic Signatures: Getting Rid of the Paper Forever - What Does it Take?

Dirk Marler, Judicial Services Program Coordinator, State of WA

Randy McKown, Project Manager

Administrative Office of the Courts

Requirements to capture violator signatures can be a big problem for jurisdictions hoping to develop eTicketing programs.  Learn how to address this problem by moving to an electronic signature or even a no-signature environment.  This program will explain how Washington State tackled the business challenges associated with various signature requirements and changed statutes and court rules to clear the way for its statewide eTicketing project.

GJXDM/NIEM: Shooting at a Moving Target

Paul Wormeli, IJIS Institute                 Cathy Plummer, SEARCH

GJXDM has become established as the standard for information sharing in criminal justice. But, there are still newer versions of GJXDM and other standards like NIEM; generating GJXDM/NIEM compliant XML schema is no small task either. This session will focus on the current state of these standards, and some strategies and tools for incorporating them into your development environment to ensure successful data sharing projects.

2:30 – 2:45

Break (Great Hall South)

Break (Great Hall South)

Breakout Sessions

Business Focus (Great Hall North)

Technology Focus (Grenada A,B,C)

2:45 – 3:45

Alternative Funding:  Who Took My Low-Hanging Money?

As federal grant funding becomes increasingly limited, it is critical that agencies include strategic planning for funding in their integration plan. The ability to draw interest from the private sector to integration efforts and educate audiences of the needs is critical for success. This panel will discuss alternative funding strategies used successfully in integration efforts. This session will encourage interaction from all attendees to share ideas on how they have successfully generated revenue or secured funding in their jurisdiction.

Applied GJXDM Knowledge for Practical Implementations, Cathy Plummer, SEARCH    

This session will focus on how to apply GJXDM knowledge and provide practical demonstrations of how to develop IEPDs. Using free tools such as; JIEM, the IEPD toolkit under development by GTRI, and Wayfarer. This session will address common questions from practitioners about how to do the actual XML schema generation.

4:00 –5:00

Has Juvenile Data Sharing Grown Up? Mike Overton, Nebraska Crime Commission; Jennifer Mankey, Center for Network Development

As we move forward with data sharing we also have to examine the partners involved and the data and processes that are essential to a comprehensive justice information system. In addition to traditional justice agencies we need to seek active participation with entities such as education and human services providers. This session will discuss approaches to juvenile information systems, guidelines, juvenile XML and the relationship or overlaps between criminal justice, juvenile justice and more traditional juvenile information systems.

The Enterprise Service Bus: What is it and What are the Implications for the Justice Community?

Erik Mickelson, Enterprise Integration Architect,

State of Wisconsin

Is ESB just another acronym or are there practical applications for justice information sharing efforts? This session will provide an overview of what an enterprise service bus is and will discuss some current and planned justice information sharing projects which leverage this infrastructure.

Breakout Sessions

Business Focus (Great Hall North)

Technology Focus (Grenada A,B,C)

9:45 – 10:45

SAVIN:  The Need for Statewide Automated Victim Notification

Dave Arneson, Project Manager – SAVIN, IJIS Institute,  Robert Sprecher, SAVIN Committee Chair, Unisys

John Goergen, Prosecuting Attorney’s Coordinating Council, MI

This session will discuss how to serve crime victims, survivors and improve community safety by establishing standards and guidelines for comprehensive, automated information and notification services.

Learn How to Build an Absolutely, Positively Secure Network

Norma Jean Schaefer, Security Architect, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Is it possible to build an absolutely positively secure network? We can use what we have learned about networks over the last 35 years and apply it to build networks that can contain some of our most confidential and sensitive information. This presentation will identify for you what technologies and processes are needed to design, implement, maintain and support a secure network.

10:45 – 11:00

Break

Break

11:00 – 12:00

Cyber-Murder: How Computer Forensics Trapped a Calculating Killer

Angela Wilson, Deputy District Attorney, Lawrence, KS

November 13, 2003: deputies in rural Douglas County, Kansas responded to a "check welfare" request and discovered a grisly murder. In spite of 11 months of traditional police forensic work, some of the best evidence against the killer was found in the recesses of his computer hard drive detailing his increasing desperation and ultimate fatal decisions. This high profile case recently featured on 48 Hours and Courts TV’s “The Investigators” provides an excellent example of the increasing importance of computer forensics to prosecute crimes in the 21^st century.

Federated Security & Identity: One Key Can Open Many Doors

John Davenport, Deputy Architect

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

The proliferation of security solutions has added complexity to integration efforts. The administration of separate identities, directories and security models has inhibited information sharing and increased the time and cost needed to accomplish the goal of integrated justice. A Federated Identity and Security Model provides a standardized means for allowing agencies to directly provide services for trusted users that they don't directly manage. This session will discuss how this model simplifies integration so that organizations can eliminate the debates caused by incompatible identity and security management mechanisms.

Breakout Sessions

Business Focus (Great Hall North)

Technology Focus (Grenada A,B,C)

1:00 – 2:00

From Disaster Recovery to Business Continuity; New Challenges for Justice Information Officers

Samit Roy, President, SciCom Infrastructure Services, Inc

Over the years, information technology has evolved by repositioning itself from its focus on disaster recovery to preparing and executing a comprehensive business continuity plan. The discussion will focus on the issues we face today and why we need to rethink our approach toward disaster recovery. Included will be steps in moving forward to meet some of these new challenges.

Flexible Integration Approaches: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Panelists: Representatives from MI, NM, KS, PA

The journey is far less important than reaching the destination when attempting justice integration. The road to integrated justice can have many different paths and all may be effective depending on the jurisdiction, political climates and availability of funds. XML messaging, proxy data providers, application hosting, and yes, even varieties of data warehousing have been effectively used throughout the country. This session will emphasize the need for flexibility while exploring a variety of approaches that can be used to effectively achieve information sharing and integration.

Breakout Sessions

Business Focus (Great Hall North)

Technology Focus (Grenada A,B,C)

2:00 – 2:15

Break (Great Hall South)

Break (Great Hall South)

2:15 – 3:15

Disposition Matching:  Two Approaches to Improving Criminal Histories

Mark Perbix, SEARCH

Michaela Mathews, Assistant District Attorney General, Nashville, TN

Improving the completeness of criminal history records has proven to be a challenge for most states.  In most cases, criminal history records are biometrically based and what’s there is highly reliable, but getting complete records through the court disposition process is problematic.  Few courts capture the same level of biometric certainty regarding defendants, and matching court dispositions to arrest records doesn’t occur.  This session will focus on the experiences of two jurisdictions that have tackled this problem with varying degrees of success. 

Advancing Justice Through the Use of DNA Technology

John Ruegg, Executive Director, Los Angeles County Information Systems Advisory Body

In response to passage of California’s Proposition 69: The DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, Los Angeles County has developed and implemented a new interagency system, the DNA Offender Tracking System (DOTS) to track DNA Court orders from DA initiation, to sample collection and final disposition of the sample as recorded by DOJ and reflected in the Consolidated Criminal History and Reporting System.  Learn how the Los Angeles County criminal justice partners met the challenges of developing this interagency system using integrated justice business process management and utilizing web services based on the Global Justice XML Data Model.

3:30 – 4:30

or 5:00

Performance Measures – Using a Three Legged Stool

Phil Tomassini, JNET Executive Director

Dr. Peter Scharf, University of New Orleans

The three-legged stool of IT value is: effective strategic planning (to determine what to do), effective project management (to make sure it gets done) and performance measurement (to make sure that what gets done actually delivers value).  Removing any one leg from the stool will cause it to collapse.  This session will emphasize the interrelated nature of strategic planning, project management and performance measures and how to make sure your stool will support your integration projects.

Beyond Borders:  Regional Law Enforcement Data Sharing Efforts

LEJIS: Mike Spirito, Lieutenant, Tredyffrin Police Department and Kevin J. Switala, LEJIS Project Mgr

Finders:  Dr. K. Michael Reynolds, Univ. of Central FL, and Chief Ernie Scott, retired Orange County Sheriffs Office

LInX:  Keith Haines, LInX NW Program Mgr

In this session, representatives from the LEJIS, LInX (Law Enforcement Information Exchange) and FINDERS projects will discuss how they were able to break down barriers between jurisdictions to deliver effective regional sharing systems.