The Criminal Justice landscape has been evolving over the last two decades in an exponential manner.  Technology has created more mechanisms for sharing information and forging trusts.  Additionally, Information technology has also brought about new challenges to criminal justice.  Video evidence quality has outpaced the capacity of local, state, and federal government IT departments, encouraging the adoption of cloud-based solutions and the creation of policies and privileged access to protect investigatory, sensitive data.  Private/Public partnerships have burgeoned as a result to tackle these challenges.

Bridging of information through web services creates new avenues of sharing information, previously bound and sealed within data foundries with limited access.   For example, we have seen the linking of behavioral and physical health and criminal justice data points to give law enforcement improved capability to make informed decisions in incident response situations and/or for use by law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges to deflect and divert individuals away from the criminal justice system and into more appropriate systems of care.

Bridging data pools has brought into the justice sphere innovative, analytical dashboards, allowing criminal justice partners access to more information than ever before. These tools can impact pre-trial and post-release outcomes.  Access to criminal records in the digital age has the potential to trigger collateral legal consequences.  On the other hand, Criminal Justice access to behavioral health data can be used in a positive manner, producing metrics to diminish recidivism.

Although a global health pandemic caused workflow to change for many criminal justice agencies, restricting office presence for justice practitioners, it has created unique opportunities to adopt technology in creative ways and increased access to justice.  For example, video arraignment projects that were put on the back burner or previously unfunded made their way to the forefront for many agencies. Jurisdictions created software applications to initiate and complete the process of domestic violence protective orders - with minimal manual human intervention and touchpoints.

Whatever your discipline:  Courts, Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Corrections, Pretrial, etc., NAJIS strongly encourages your participation in this online, productive discussion.  Together we can share best practices, lessons learned, how a project succeeded, or how a project failed.  Each participant will have 1-2 minutes to share their story.  Come, join us, learn and walk away geared with information that could be of value to your justice information sharing initiatives!

 We cordially invite you to attend this informative webinar
February 23, 2022 from 11AM - 12:30PM EST

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