Integrated Information Technologies Project
Criminal justice systems around the country are at a critical crossroads in the development and use of information and communication technologies. Decisions being made right now and during the next few years will set the course for the next twenty years. Will we have an integrated system in which everyone who routinely works with the criminal justice system (including law enforcement, social services, schools, courts, prosecutors, public defenders, corrections, and probation and parole offices) has easy, cheap and quick access to accurate and relevant information? Or, will we have what Chief Justice Ronald M. George of the Supreme Court of California calls an "Electronic Tower of Babel," where every agency and player in the justice system is equipped but, because of uncoordinated planning, everyone is technologically isolated from each other?
The Judicial Administration Bureau's Integrated Information Technologies Project has been a national leader in advocating coordinated planning for the development of integrated information technologies in the justice system. For additional information, consult the following sources:
J. Clark Kelso, Integrated Criminal Justice Technologies: An Introduction(McGeorge Law Review, Fall 1998).
Janet Reno, Justice and Public Safety in the Twenty-First Century (McGeorge Law Review, Fall 1998).
Paul F. Kendall & Anne E. Gardner, Legislation: A New Design for Justice Integration (McGeorge Law Review, Fall 1998).
Concept Paper - "Integrated Justice Enterprise Information Act of 2000" (September 15, 1999), J. Clark Kelso