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Symposium Speakers Outsourcing Presentation:
Mr. Scott Andison, Executive Director for the Information Technology Services Division for justice agencies in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, has worked in the criminal justice system for 23 years, both as an employee and consultant.
Mr. Andison's career has involved the planning, development, and evaluation of information technology and information management solutions at both the provincial and national level. He has chaired the province's Advisory Council on Information Management; served as an executive member on the federal/provincial management board for the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics; and is a member of the federal/provincial Leadership Committee for the Integrated Justice Initiative.
Mr. Andison has successfully managed the development and implementation of an integrated justice system, JUSTIN, in the Province of British Columbia. The development effort used an innovative approach to outsourcing, creating a strategic partnership with the systems integrator. He holds a master's degree from the University of Victoria.
Luncheon Keynote - CIO Roundtable Session (No presentation was used during this session) Mr. Howard A. Baker is Chief Information Officer -- Public Safety for the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Baker has extensive experience in operating large-scale information technology projects that is applied to his current duties of managing all Philadelphia public safety systems. These systems are cross-jurisdictional and -regional, spanning all criminal justice agencies from arrest through parole. Mr. Baker directs an interagency staff of over 200 professionals who respond to the operational concerns of over 15,000 end users.
Mr. Baker previously served as CIO for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety; as CIO and Deputy Commissioner of Technological Development for the New York City Police Department; as Director of IT for the San Mateo County, California, Human Services Agency; and also spent 31 years in law enforcement in California police and sheriff's departments.
Procurement Presentation:
Ms. Susan Bates is currently the President of Justice Management, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in integrated justice services. Ms. Bates was one of the first members of the Industry Working Group sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, and she sits on the board of directors for the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute. Prior to her position with Justice Management, Inc., she spent a number of years as the National Practice Leader for Criminal Justice Services for a large consulting firm, where she was responsible for business development and sales, program management, and proposal development. Ms. Bates has extensive experience with the issues and processes of justice agencies at both the local and state levels. Ms. Bates is the architect of the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Request for Proposal (RFP) for an Integrated Criminal Justice Information System. This RFP is one of the first in the country to utilize the Internet for both letting the RFP and receiving proposals. Michael
Brook Mr. Michael Brook, Director of Finance and Operations for the District Attorney General's Office in Nashville (Tennessee), joined the office in 1982 after leaving his position with Midland Bank PLC, now HSBC PLC England. He has been closely involved in the creation, design, development and implementation of the Nashville Criminal Justice Information System since 1996.
In addition to the day-to-day operations of all data networks, Mr. Brook is responsible for strategic planning and financial responsibility for all the projects and grants operated by the office.
Preconference Workshop - Large IT Project Management in an Integrated Justice Environment
Presentation:
Ms. Calvert holds a BA in Business Management from Wilmington College and is currently pursuing her Project Management Professional certification. She is a certified instructor for project management training and chapter leader for the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Software Process Improvement Network. Maj.
Piper Charles Maj. Charles has a master's degree in Public Administration, with a concentration in Information and Technology Management, as well as a master's degree in Criminal Justice.
Luncheon Keynote - A Vision for the
Future: Emerging Technologies Mr.
Chastain is Sun Microsystems’ Worldwide Business Development Manager for
Criminal Justice and Public Safety. He co-founded and manages Sun’s Criminal
Justice Operations team, which focuses on information technology solutions for
the criminal justice and public safety sector worldwide. He has traveled
extensively to work with various countries’ criminal justice/public safety
organizations and has helped establish IT infrastructures based on open network
environments and standards, which allow seamless exchange of critical
information. He has worked closely with the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children to employ state-of-the-art technology used to recover missing
and abused children. Mr. Chastain was a recipient of the “Fed 100” award,
given for contributions to the development, acquisition or management of federal
IT.
Federal, State, Local Efforts - The Big Picture
Mr. Cooper is called upon to represent SEARCH before the various branches and levels of government, including the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice; criminal justice associations; and the private sector. He has served as a member of numerous national committees dealing with the handling of justice information and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Federal Advisory Committee to the Attorney General regarding the Global Justice Information Network initiative. From 1983 until 1999, he chaired the Evaluation Committee for tests of the Interstate Identification Index (III), a committee of the Advisory Policy Board to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division. He is a former member of the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council’s Standards Committee. In 1981, California’s Governor appointed him to the California Commission on Personal Privacy.
Mr. Cooper joined SEARCH in 1974 and was named Executive Director in 1983. Prior to joining SEARCH, Mr. Cooper was with the California Council on Criminal Justice and the California Crime Technological Research Foundation. He also served as a Police Officer for the City of Sacramento, California. He has written extensively in all areas of information law and policy, with an emphasis on the privacy and security of criminal history records.
Luncheon Keynote - A Vision for the
Future: Emerging Technologies Mr. Matthew D'Alessandro is a Product Manager within Motorola's Integrated Solutions Division. He has over 16 years experience in the public safety industry, including two as a unit director in the New York State Department of Correctional Services. His industry experience includes software design, consulting, project management, business development and product management within all disciplines of public safety. His experience is focused on the integration of large public safety organizations. Mr. D’Alessandro is a member of the National Criminal Justice Association, as well as the Integrated Justice Information System (IJIS) Institute Industry Working Group.
John Davenport Presentation:
Mr. John Davenport is Technology Advisor to the Judicial Automation Department of the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts. He formerly held the position of director of information technology for the courts, where he managed the technical aspects of statewide court automation. He has been involved in criminal record disposition reporting and interagency record improvement projects for over 14 years.
After innumerable studies of data elements, Pennsylvania justice agencies adopted Internet Web standards and XML as the basis for interagency access and data sharing. The result has been the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET), a system that respects and protects agency information autonomy while providing the plumbing for agencies to publish and subscribe to critical justice information. Based on his work within his own agency and JNET, Mr. Davenport was named the Technology Advocate of the Year 2000 by the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania.
He is chair of the JNET Security and Technology Subcommittees and has been a member of the JNET Steering committee since its inception.
Funding
Strategies Stephen L. Davis is a Principal with MTG Management Consultants LLC, an independent management consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington. Since 1973, MTG has provided information technology planning and management services to state and local government agencies, initially as a division of ECG Management Consultants Inc.
Mr. Davis is a partner in the firm’s criminal justice information systems consulting practice. His primary responsibility is directing the practice in the areas of (1) multi-jurisdictional information systems planning and management at both the state and local level, (2) local law enforcement and other criminal justice systems, and (3) court information systems. Under his direction, the firm has established itself as one of the leading criminal justice information technology consulting firms in the country. Over the last 10 years, Mr. Davis and his staff have worked with more than a dozen states and numerous local agencies to develop and implement both management plans and architectural blueprints for integrated criminal justice information systems.
Procurement
Plenary: Integrated Justice Project Directors Roundtable Mr. Paul Embley is the Unified Criminal Justice System Project Manager for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he has recently overseen the development of the State’s strategic and implementation plans. In that role, he has overseen many projects demonstrating the ability for disparate agencies to share information and implement new technologies. He is also a member of the Global Infrastructure/Standards Working Group subcommittee (ISWG), representing a practitioner assistance team. Prior to his role with the Commonwealth, Mr. Embley completed an international assignment for a high tech firm where he managed large-scale Information Technology projects and resources in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His responsibilities included building teamwork and consensus among geographically distributed and linguistically diverse groups. Mr. Embley has handled many multimillion-dollar IT initiatives that serve the breadth of corporate information requirements. He has worked in high tech for more than 18 years, and just recently transitioned to his current role in state government. Col. John
Fenzel Col. Fenzel also served as
Director of Operations for the National Energy Policy Development Group, another
task force created by President Bush and chaired by Vice President Cheney. This
group was comprised of the Secretaries of Energy, Interior, State, Treasury,
Commerce, Transportation and Agriculture, as well as the Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency and the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency. The goal of this group was to coordinate among the agencies a
national energy policy designed to help the private sector and the government,
at all levels, promote dependable, affordable and environmentally sound
production and distribution. A Special Forces officer who
has served extensively in the Middle East and Europe, Col. Fenzel graduated from
both Tulane University and the Naval War College. He commanded a Special Forces
“A” Team during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and was awarded
the Bronze Star Medal and Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award for training and
advising a Kuwaiti Battalion during the liberation of Kuwait. He commanded three Special
Forces companies, leading the first Army deployments to Pakistan and the Baltic
States. In Bosnia, he commanded Special Operations Forces in the U.S. and
British sectors, working closely with the United Nations to secure the
indictments and convictions of those responsible for war crimes in Srebrenica. Chad Firestone Mr. Firestone previously worked in the field of probation and parole for 5 years before moving to the Bureau of Program Development for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency (PCCD). At PCCD, he assisted counties in the development and ongoing monitoring of intermediate punishment programs and county policy boards. His work with the counties led to his involvement in the County Integration Project, a project involving a consortium of counties working together on various integration projects aimed at reducing redundant data entry, and improving data integrity and statewide data sharing. His experiences with the county projects led him to JNET.
Mr. Firestone has a bachelor's degree in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Dale Good
Case
Study 1 - State and Local Integration: Minnesota
CriMNet Mr. Dale Good is an Information Technology Manager with 25 years experience in court and justice information, applications, and technologies. He has expertise managing large-scale information technology initiatives in the Minnesota courts and criminal justice community, and has provided leadership and direction on critical planning efforts for court and cross-agency projects. He also has expertise in system design, integration, development, implementation and operation, as well as quantitative analysis and statistical research. He is knowledgeable in technology architectures, project management, and court and criminal justice business practices, organizations, and issues. He has supported court and justice business requirements using a variety of technologies. He conceptualized and participated in the creation of a multi-agency collaboration devoted to the improvement of criminal justice data and systems.
Mr. Good is regularly invited to explain complex technology concepts to lay audiences, including the Minnesota Legislature; legal community; county, city, and business leaders; and national professional associations and conferences.
Standards Mr. John Greacen was director of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) of New Mexico from October 1996 to July 2001, and was clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Mexico in Albuquerque, a court of limited jurisdiction with two judges and a staff of 28, from 1992 – 1996. Before his appointment as clerk in 1992, he served for eight years as clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia – an intermediate federal appellate court with 15 judgeships and 50 staff. He worked for five years at the National Center for State Courts, ultimately as deputy director for programs.
Mr. Greacen has an AB from Princeton and a JD from the University of Arizona. He has received the Director’s Award for Excellence in Leadership from Ralph Mecham, director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, for his leadership in appellate court automation and management, and the 1999 Award of Merit from the National Association for Court Management for accomplishments during his career. Mr. Greacen is currently serving as a Process Improvement Attorney for the New Mexico AOC and will soon begin a private court administration consultant practice.
Emerging Trends
in Biometric Technologies Roundtable Mr. Owen M. Greenspan is a Justice Information Services Specialist for the Law and Policy Division of SEARCH. He provides technical assistance to State and local justice agencies and courts, in support of their efforts to employ information and identification technologies consistent with law, prudent policy, operational objectives, and program goals. On the national level, he is SEARCH’s liaison with the FBI on matters concerning readiness for participation in the Interstate Identification Index Program, and the implementation of a national model criminal history record. He serves on several national-level advisory groups and task forces. Prior to joining SEARCH in 1995, Mr. Greenspan held several positions with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. As Deputy Commissioner for Identification and Data Systems, he was responsible for New York’s criminal history record repository and associated data processing services for more than 3,000 agencies across New York and beyond. As Deputy Commissioner for Municipal Police, Mr. Greenspan had oversight responsibility for certification of police training and accreditation programs. Mr. Greenspan was also New York’s governor-appointee to the SEARCH Membership Group, and served as Vice Chair of the Membership Group and Board of Directors. Mr. Greenspan was also a member of the New York City Police Department, where he held patrol, investigative, administrative, and supervisory positions. Mr. Greenspan holds a master of professional services (MPS) in Criminal Justice from C.W. Post College of Long Island University and a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from Fordham University, New York. Regional Integrated
Justice Efforts Judge Michael R. Griffin is a District Judge with the First Judicial District Court in Carson City, Nevada. He is also on the Committee Studying Judicial Retirement. Previously, he was involved with the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline.
Before he was appointed as a Judge, he was a Captain in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps; was in the 2nd Infantry Division, ROK; was Chief Defense Counsel in Fort Ord, California; was a Nevada State Deputy Public Defender; and was also in private practice.
He attended the University of San Francisco Law School.
Effective
Governance Strategies Ms. Kelly J. Harris is Director of Justice Information Technology Services for SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, where she develops and directs activities and manages staff under two key program areas: the SEARCH National Technical Assistance Program, and the National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Information Systems.
Ms. Harris supervises staff and activities of SEARCH technical assistance providers, and provides technical assistance to justice agencies in automated systems planning, development, improvement, acquisition, management, and integration of justice information systems. Ms. Harris also directs and supervises the development and enhancement of all SEARCH World Wide Web resources, including the Integrated Justice Information Systems Website, a comprehensive resource for local, state, and Federal justice agencies that are integrating their information systems.
Ms. Harris develops and coordinates major national conferences on justice information systems and technologies where thousands of justice professionals, as well as state and local policymakers, are trained, including the 2002 SEARCH Symposium on Integrated Justice Information Systems: Navigating the Future. She also writes a variety of articles, technical bulletins, and reports for SEARCH and for publication by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Ms. Harris received a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Communications from the University of California, Davis.
Luncheon
Keynote - CIO Roundtable Session Mr. Karl Heckart, Chief Information Officer for the Arizona Judicial Branch, has directed several statewide projects: the statewide implementation of a case management system for General and Limited Jurisdictional Courts; the development and implementation of Adult and Juvenile Probation management systems; the construction of a Judicial data warehouse to provide a cohesive statewide view of court information; and the design and pilot implementation of an Integrated Criminal Justice Information System architecture for Arizona.
Mr. Heckart directs a staff of over 80 professionals who service 5,000 end-users in the courts and probation in Arizona, and install and maintain a judicial telecommunications network connecting 200 locations. He served as chairman for the national Judicial IT Forum and the Judicial State CIO Forum.
Technical
Models of Integrated Justice (Part I and II) Mr. George Hogshead is the National Director for the Integrated JPS Solutions Team of KPMG Consulting. He has 35-plus years of experience in justice, public safety and security systems, technology, operations, and management. Mr. Hogshead has served as a senior-level manager, consultant, and advisor to governments and businesses throughout the world. He is the Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the IJIS Institute, and a member of the IJIS Industry Working Group. Mr. Hogshead has provided consulting and advisory services to clients including the Attorney General of Hong Kong; U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Department of Justice and Police Department, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; FBI; Ministry of Justice, British Columbia and Ontario, Canada; Ministry of the Interior, United Arab Emirates and Qatar; National Center for State Courts; State Justice Institute; Office of the Governors, Mexico; Garda (Police Force), Southern Ireland; and justice and public safety agencies in over half of the U.S. Mr. Hogshead is a graduate of Florida State University, and a Fellow of the Institute for Court Management.
Leadership
and Management Strategies Dr. J. William Holland, Assistant Deputy Director for Plans and Program Development in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has extensive experience in operational, developmental, and policy issues related to information technology and its role in meeting the mission-critical needs of the criminal justice community.
Dr. Holland serves as his state's director of the National Criminal History Improvement Program and since 1996 has served as chairperson of the Georgia Criminal Justice Records Improvement Subcommittee.
Case
Study 2 - Nashville, Tennessee Mr. Victor S. Johnson III, District Attorney General for the 20th Judicial District in Nashville (Tennessee), was appointed to the office by the Governor of Tennessee in November 1987, and was elected to office in 1988, 1990, and 1998.
Mr. Johnson was primarily responsible for the creation of the management organization that is the focus for the operation of the Criminal Justice Information System in Nashville. He is currently involved in the design, development, and deployment of a systemwide victim notification system to comply with victims' rights legislation.
Emerging Trends
in Biometric Technologies Roundtable Mr. Creed Jones is a Senior Product Engineer at Sagem Morpho Inc., a provider of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems and fingerprint recognition technology for the forensic, government and commercial markets. Mr. Jones is Chair of the ANSI/NCITS B10.9 subcommittee for development of generic biometric standards, and participated in the development of the BioAPI specification.
Prior to joining Sagem Morpho, Mr. Jones was active for 18 years in the machine vision and image processing industries at Optimas Corp., Perceptics Corp. and the General Motors Advanced Engineering staff. He has authored articles published in the Proceedings of the IEEE, the SME, the FPEI, Advanced Imaging and MOVE magazine, and has been awarded several patents in machine vision and imaging science. Mr. Jones holds a BSEE and MSEE from Oakland University, and is currently completing his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech.
Effective Governance
Strategies Mr. Noble Kennamer, Deputy Public Defender for Los Angeles for the past 20 years, has worked on everything from misdemeanor to capital cases. He is currently a Special Assistant to the Public Defender, and he also works with the Information Systems Advisory Body.
Mr. Kennamer is responsible for project management and coordination of information systems for the justice community. He has authored a software system for case management, and he is responsible for the installation of over 50 video units for the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, the County Probation Office, and the Los Angeles County Jail inmates.
Case
Study 1 - State and Local Integration: Minnesota CriMNet Mr. Thomas Kooy is the Deputy Director of the CriMNet project in Minnesota. He has 16 years experience, both in law enforcement and criminal justice information systems.
As a former Sergeant with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, he gained first-hand experience in the processes and complexities of the criminal justice system, as well as the cultures and concerns of its major component players. Also, as a lead database and research expert in the Sheriff's Office, and as a cohort to the Hennepin County Criminal Justice research staff, he developed several application systems for law enforcement, and assisted several systemwide research and analysis projects, attempting to link criminal justice systems data across disciplines and resident data systems.
As one of the early leaders of a Statewide Enterprise approach to solving the criminal justice information sharing problem in Minnesota, Mr. Kooy began several years ago working to develop the advent vision of CriMNet. As the Executive Director of the Hennepin County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, he led the planning efforts to examine the integration of criminal justice data systems in Hennepin County (and Minneapolis). Working with State Agency and legislative leaders, the architecture of CriMNet was developed for statewide feasibility. Mr. Kooy has continued, in his new role at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension CJIS Unit, to coordinate and steer the design and implementation projects for CriMNet.
Mr. Kooy holds degrees from the University of Iowa and University of Minnesota, and is frequently called to speak on issues of criminal justice data and systems integration, both regionally and nationally.
Luncheon Keynote - A
Vision for the Future: Emerging Technologies Mr. Jeff Langford, Technology Specialist with Microsoft State & Local Government, has been working with Microsoft for more than eight years, and has more than 20 years of computer hardware and software experience. His current technological focus is infrastructure, which encompasses Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, Active Directory design and implementation, network engineering, and security. Additionally, he supports the NET Servers and technologies, including products such as Exchange and Internet Security and Acceleration Server. Deployment and management of Office XP is another area that he supports, as well as the Visual Studio NET line of products.
Prior to coming to work for Microsoft, Mr. Langford had his own computer consulting firm and also worked as a programmer writing code for long-distance telephone switches. He has also worked in the banking industry as a mainframe computer operator, as a hardware technician at a computer retailer, and as an avionics technician in the U.S. Air Force. He is currently a Reserve Deputy Sheriff with the King County (Washington) Sheriff's Office and works with many other public safety agencies as a technical representative to law enforcement and fire departments.
Technical
Models of Integrated Justice (Part I and II) Ms. Lorraine Lanning is President and CEO of Lanning Companies, Inc., a software consulting firm that specializes in project management and research. Ms. Lanning is currently the Director of Quality Assurance at SafeRent, Inc., a provider of online applicant screening services for the multi-family housing industry.
Ms. Lanning is experienced in backend integration projects through her work at SafeRent, Inc. and Oppenheimerfunds, Inc. She has been responsible for implementing application servers, using multiple outside data sources, and integrating with disparate internal data sources such as AIS, mainframe, PowerBuilder, and NT- and Unix-based systems. Ms. Lanning also has extensive research experience at SafeRent, Inc., Oppenheimerfunds, Inc., and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. As a consultant, her clients included Verio, AT&T Broadband, USA.net, and Blueband.
Effective Governance
Strategies Mr. Gordon Lansford is Director of the Kansas Criminal Justice Information System (KCJIS). He is responsible for overseeing the design, development and implementation of the integrated justice system in Kansas. The system currently has over 6,000 users and supports approximately 160 state and local criminal justice agencies.
Prior to working in criminal justice, Mr. Lansford spent 30 years with IBM and retired in 1998. He was trained as a Systems Engineer with IBM and later held numerous marketing and management positions in various locations, primarily in the Midwest.
Mr. Lansford holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Wyoming. He also received advanced training in finance and management from the Harvard School of Business while with IBM.
Matthew
R. Lehrian
Effective Governance
Strategies Judge Robert C. Leuba is Chairman of the Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board for the State of Connecticut. The Board consists of Executive and Judicial Branch executives charged by statutes to oversee Connecticut's offender-based tracking system. He is a Senior Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court and the designee of the Chief Court Administrator on the Board.
Before elected to Senior status in 2000, Judge Leuba was the Chief Court Administrator for the Connecticut Judicial Branch. Prior to that, he was a Deputy Chief Court Administrator; Chairman of the Judicial Branch's Technology Advisory Committee; Chief Administrative Judge of the Civil Division; and Coordinator of State Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs.
Judge Leuba is credited with the establishment of the Electronic Benchbook for Connecticut Judges, which has been nationally recognized.
Prior to his appointment as a judge in 1986, he was engaged in the practice of law since 1960.
Emerging Trends
in Biometric Technologies Roundtable Lt. Jim Main is a Detention Lieutenant in the Pinellas County, Florida, Sheriff's Office, where he has worked for 14 years, concentrating in the corrections and inmate booking areas. He is assigned to the County Jail and is responsible for coordinating the Facial Recognition Project, which will replace a digital mugshot system in place since 1994. Lt. Main helped plan for and implement that mugshot system, as well as the agency's first livescan fingerprinting technology. Lt. Main is also currently leading the agency's search for a jail management system. The jail management and facial recognition systems he is managing involve $10 million in funding. His other areas of expertise within the Sheriff's Office include inmate transportation, booking, and boot camp. Lt. Main has a bachelor's degree in Business with a minor in Computer Information Systems.
Process Reengineering:
Moving From
Business Analysis to Integration Solutions Mr. Dennis Marion is the County Administrator for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he develops the County Management Plan, and manages county elections, the human services delivery system, and operations of the criminal justice planning process.
Mr. Marion convened the original Computer Planning Committee for the County and oversaw development of the County Information Management and Technology Office. Over the past two years, he has participated in a PCCD-funded County Criminal Justice Data Integration project. He helped develop a criminal justice workflow model that will be used as a foundation for future criminal justice planning and data integration efforts. Mr. Marion has been appointed to the Governor's Voting System Modernization Task Force that is exploring the future of new voting technology in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth has chosen Cumberland County as a demonstration site for new touch screen voting technology.
Case
Studay 2 - Nashville, Tennessee Ms. Michaela Mathews has served as an Assistant District Attorney General at the Office of the District Attorney General in Nashville, Tennessee, for the past 10 years, where she supervises the attorneys, investigators and support staff in the grand jury division, the fraud division, and a group of attorneys who work in the criminal investigation division of the police department. She also oversees the criminal justice information system.
Previously, Ms. Mathews was an assistant at the District Attorney's Office in Memphis, Tennessee, and an assistant in the criminal division of the Tennessee Attorney General's Office.
She graduated from Stuart School in Princeton, New Jersey, and Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She earned her JD from Boston University School of Law.
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Patrick McCreary
Web-enabled
Justice Applications Mr. James McMillan joined the National Center for State Courts in October 1990, and he directs the Court Technology Laboratory and assists with the Courtroom 21 project in conjunction with the William and Mary School of Law. In November 2000, the TIES-CTL project received the State Justice Institute's Howell Heflin outstanding project award. Mr. McMillan also serves as senior technology faculty for the Institute for Court Management, and he has provided technical assistance for numerous trial and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the Arkansas and Mississippi Supreme Courts, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Internationally Mr. McMillan has consulted with courts in the Bahamas, Egypt, Trinidad, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation, and for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal. Mr. McMillan is co-author of A Guidebook for Electronic Court Filing and a contributing author to Caseflow Management: The Heart of Court Management in the New Millennium. He received his BA in government from New Mexico State University and an MPA with a specialization in judicial administration from the University of Southern California.
Case
Study 3 - Florida Integrated Criminal Justice Information System Ms. Iris Morgan, Senior Management Analyst for the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Program in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), is currently serving as the coordinator for delivery of information services statewide and services as the Security Officer for the Florida Crime Information Center network.
Ms. Morgan has over 22 years experience with FDLE and the CJIS Program. She has been instrumental in designing several major criminal justice information system enhancements, including: the Offender-Based Transaction System, Uniform Offense and Arrest Reports, National Fingerprint File Program, Uniform Crime Reports Program, and Criminal Justice Data Element Dictionary, as well as the redesign of the Computerized Criminal History file.
Plenary: Integrated Justice Project Directors Roundtable (No presentation was used during this session) Mr. Brian Mouty, Chief Project Officer for the Colorado Integrated Criminal Justice Information System, provides quality project management and leadership services via his company - The Mouty Group LLC. Prior to his current role, he directed the Colorado Year 2000 Project Office.
Colorado Governor Bill Owens appointed Mr. Mouty as a member of the Governor's Task Force on Year 2000 Readiness. His government experience includes managing several statewide-automated systems.
Emerging Trends
in Biometric Technologies Roundtable Mr. Samir Nanavati is a founding Partner of International Biometric Group, LLC, a biometric consulting and integration firm founded in 1996. Mr. Nanavati is one of the industry's foremost experts on the real-world issues involved in designing and deploying biometric systems. He has led over a dozen pilots and deployments, helping companies to develop and implement biometric solutions across virtually all major biometric technologies.
Mr. Nanavati is cited frequently by leading publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Reuters, American Banker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Washington Post and The Industry Standard. He has published eight industry articles relating to the real-world performance of biometrics, and co-developed test protocols for International Biometric Group’s Comparative Biometric Testing. Mr. Nanavati is the author of 14 analyses on the state of the biometric industry, and is also co-authoring a book on privacy implications, as well as a text on technical challenges of deploying biometrics.
Mr. Nanavati has testified before congressional subcommittees on the accuracy and privacy considerations of using biometrics for national security, and has provided written testimony to the Domestic and International Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services.
Mr. Nanavati has spoken at over 20 conferences, and has keynoted various biometric industry-specific conferences. He serves as a biometric expert on local and national TV and regularly lectures on biometrics for John Jay University and Brooklyn Polytechnic University.
Previously, Mr. Nanavati worked in the Information Technology group within Deloitte & Touche Management Consulting Group. Mr. Nanavati is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Welcoming Remarks (No presentation was used during this session) Mr. Richard Nedelkoff is Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. He was nominated for this position by President George W. Bush on June 5, 2001, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 14, 2001. As an administrator in five States (Ohio, Kentucky, Florida, Virginia and Texas), he created juvenile justice and criminal justice programs that serve as models for agencies across the country. The central theme of his diverse 21-year career in public service has been his work to reduce bureaucracy, produce quick results, implement innovative programs, and find solutions to problem situations.
In Ohio and Kentucky, he held a variety of positions in child protective services and foster care agencies and taught criminal and juvenile justice classes at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. In Virginia and Texas, he worked in various capacities in the juvenile and domestic court systems, creating and coordinating diversion and victim-offender mediation programs, and developing procedures to ensure effective case processing. In 1993, he was appointed a regional director for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and later served as executive director of the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services. In 1998, he was appointed executive director of the Texas Governor's Criminal Justice Division, which administers 17 state and federal funds for juvenile justice, criminal justice, and victims services grants.
Mr. Nedelkoff received a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Bowling Green State University in 1980; a Master of Science in Administration of Justice from the University of Louisville; and a Doctorate from Capital University Law School in 1986.
Outsourcing Mr. Craig Nelson, Director of Information Services for McLean County (Illinois), has extensive experience in software analysis, design and programming. He served as Vice President of Information Systems for a national catalog company, coordinating projects with companies such as Disney, Spiegel, Hallmark, and American Online.
Since 1997 Mr. Nelson has been with McLean County government, which is implementing one of the nation's first functional integrated justice information systems in a single repository. Mr. Nelson served as technical lead in the capacity of Oracle database administration, and now as a liaison to the vendor partnering with McLean County in this effort.
Web-enabled
Justice Applications Mr. Michael Overton is Director of the Statistical Analysis Center of the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, where he has worked on various research and data collection efforts for that agency and others.
He is involved in grant-related projects, including reporting, evaluation, NIBRS, and management. He is the elected chair of the Criminal Justice Information Systems Advisory Committee, where he is involved in various efforts dealing with increasing access to existing databases, as well as integrating or enhancing systems involving state and local agencies.
Mr. Overton's previous project work has included a standard law enforcement RMS, AFIS, jail automation, systems integration, and the Nebraska Criminal Justice Information System.
Case Study 3 - Florida Integrated Criminal Justice Information System Presentation:
Ms. Brenda
Owens is Chief Information Officer of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,
where she is responsible for all Information Technology resources, including a
statewide criminal justice network of over 30,000 devices in approximately 1,000
locations throughout the State of Florida; an IT staff of over 150 members; a
statewide message switch, criminal history system and AFIS; and over 40 criminal
justice/investigative IT systems.
Data
and Information Exchange Ms. Catherine Plummer is New Mexico's Integrated Justice Project Manager, and led the state's effort on the SEARCH Information Exchange Points model developed this year. She holds degrees from The American University and the University of New Mexico, and she served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Cameroon, West Africa.
Ms. Plummer has an extensive background in law, Windows NT and Exchange administration, network management, database design and development, applications development, Web design and development, computer applications training and curriculum development, and information science. She is responsible for project management and oversight under the direction of the New Mexico Criminal Justice Information Management Team.
Funding
Strategies Throughout her 11 years as a Minnesota State Senator, the Honorable Jane Ranum has been the lead Senate advocate for criminal justice information integration, which developed into a project that is now known in Minnesota as CriMNet. In 1993, she was the chief author of a bill that laid the groundwork for CriMNet by establishing a Criminal and Juvenile Justice Information Policy Group and Task Force. Since then, she has been the chief author of numerous criminal justice information funding and policy bills. CriMNet took a major step forward in 2000, when her bill appropriated $12 million to begin implementing a blueprint for the statewide plan. Sen. Ranum (DFL-Minneapolis) chairs the Senate Crime Prevention Committee and is also an Assistant Hennepin County Attorney, where she has worked in numerous divisions, including Adult and Juvenile Prosecution, Child Protection, Child Support, and Mental Health.
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Mr. David J. Roberts is Deputy Executive Director of the Technology and Research Division of SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, where he oversees the design, development, and implementation of two broad programs: Systems and Technology, and Research and Statistics. Mr. Roberts provides technical assistance to justice agencies nationwide, addressing such issues as the integration of information systems and automation planning, with funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). In addition, Mr. Roberts serves as director of an Office of Justice Programs/BJA project to identify and define information exchanges that enable integration of justice information systems at the state and local levels, and as director of a joint BJS/Federal Bureau of Investigation project on implementation of the National Incident-Based Reporting System among law enforcement agencies.
Mr. Roberts is directing the 2002 SEARCH Symposium on Integrated Justice Information Systems, and has directed many other SEARCH events in the past.
Mr. Roberts is a frequent keynote speaker at justice technology conferences and workshops across the United States and Canada, and has prepared numerous articles and reports published by the U.S. DOJ. Mr. Roberts is a member of numerous advisory committees and professional associations, including the Criminal Justice Information Systems Committee, International Association of Chiefs of Police; the Architecture Committee, National Association of State Chief Information Officers; the Infrastructure/Standards Working Group, Global Justice Information Network Advisory Committee; the Board of Directors, Legal XML; Chair, Integrated Justice Working Group, Legal XML; and the American Society of Criminology.
Mr. Roberts holds a master's degree from the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany; a Master of Criminal Justice Administration from Oklahoma City University; and a bachelor's degree in Law Enforcement and Criminology from Metropolitan State College in Colorado.
Procurement Mr. William Romesburg is a Consultant for the Technology and Research Division of SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, where he provides technical assistance in automated systems development, automation planning, and integration of justice information systems to justice agencies nationwide.
Previously, Mr. Romesburg was a public safety consultant for Cit Com, Inc., where he managed public safety technology programs to ensure planned and developed methods and procedures for successfully implementing public safety technology. He was also a director of public safety for RCC Consultants, Inc., and a managing consultant for The Warner Group. He has served as consultant to dozens of law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. During the past 6 years, he has served as the primary consultant on a variety of public safety projects, both large (Fort Worth, Texas) and small (Addison, Texas).
Prior to consulting, Mr. Romesburg held several law enforcement positions, enabling a greater understanding of the public safety environment. He served the City of Brea, California, Police Department as a cadet and a police and fire dispatcher for 3 years. Shortly thereafter, he served the City of Orange, California, as a sworn police officer for 6 years.
Mr. Romesburg holds a master's degree in Public Administration from California State University, Fullerton. He is also Project Management Institute-certified (Level 2); is a Leadership Graduate from Chapman University in California; and graduated with honors from the Rancho Santiago College Police Academy in California.
Performance
Metrics Dr. Robert Roper, Chief Information Officer for the Colorado Judicial Branch, is an original member of the Colorado Integrated CJIS Task Force. Dr. Roper has implemented four major automation projects in Colorado during the last five years, and he is a national court management consultant/trainer.
Dr. Roper represents the National Association for Court Management (NACM) on the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA)/NACM. Joint Technology Committee, is a member of the National Consortium for Establishing Functional Standards for Court Automation, and serves as a member of SEARCH's Court Technology Advisory Committee.
Plenary - Integrated Justice Project Directors Roundtable (No presentation was used during this session) Ms. Linda Rosenberg serves as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Justice Network. Her position includes administration, management, and professional work for the implementation and management of the Commonwealth's Integrated Justice Network.
Ms. Rosenberg has served as Information Technology Manager for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency from 1997 to 1999. She started her career with the Commonwealth in 1990 as a Pennsylvania Management Intern, after which she worked for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
Regional
Integrated Justice Efforts
Plenary - Integrated Justice Project Directors Roundtable (No presentation was used during this session) Ms. Pam Scanlon is Executive Director of the Automated Regional Justice Information System in San Diego (California) and has over 20 years experience in law enforcement. The ARJIS is an integrated enterprise system used by over 45 local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies throughout San Diego and Imperial Counties. ARJIS is chartered with supporting a regional Web-based enterprise network that utilizes technical and operational standards to build interfaces to all criminal justice systems in the region. Future plans include the integration of the RCS voice/radio network (180 agencies) with the secure ARJISNET data intranet. She also sits on the California Attorney General’s Strategic Planning Advisory Board, and is an IACP/LEIM Board Member.
Prior to her position in ARJIS, Ms. Scanlon was the manager for the Data Systems Division a |
