City Attorney
Reference: Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee IGA
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Jane Bais DiSessa, City Manager
Prepared By: Lena McClelland, Deputy City Attorney
Date Prepared: October 2, 2020
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA
Safe, Active and Engaged Community
Strong Regional Relationships and Partnerships
BACKGROUND
Currently, each municipal court in Adams County maintains its own unique data system separate from any other criminal justice system. As a result, information and data cannot be shared easily among the different jurisdictions within Adams County and decision makers do not have all of the relevant and necessary information to make informed decisions in court. The Adams County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee (CJCC) was created to work on a solution to connect municipal court data to other criminal justice information. In 2019, the City was asked to join the CJCC and be a part of a pilot program for the sharing of criminal justice information between jurisdictions.
The CJCC created the Justice-Centralized Online Records Portal (J-CORP). J-CORP utilizes secure, Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) compliant technology to connect necessary criminal justice information. J-CORP is a secure portal that will access several criminal justice agency’s offender-based information without hosting any data outside of its own home system. The offender-based data from the jurisdictions participating in each location will include data such as charge summary, warrant history, case history, hearing summary, jail stay information, etc. J-CORP will allow justice practitioners to have access to aggregate post-citation through resolution information across functional jurisdictional and agency case management systems in order to provide a centric, historical view of individuals involved in the justice system. As part of the pilot program the City of Brighton, along with the City of Thornton and Adams County, will be the first jurisdictions to use J-CORP in Adams County.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
N/A - Adams County, on behalf of the CJCC, received a grant from the State of Colorado Department of Public Safety to plan and implement the portal.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends approval of the IGA.
OPTIONS FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION
Approve the resolution
Approve with conditions
Do not approve
ATTACHMENTS
Resolution
IGA