Objective: Every agency desires having access to IT ideas using other agencies as a resource, including a resource clearinghouse, best-practices, and prototype projects using advanced technologies.

Task 1: Prepare a report on strategies and initiatives related to achieving the overall information and information technology vision (refer to agency vision statement).  This report will blend a summary of goals and progress towards achievement.

Objective: Cross-agency data sharing with a goal of reducing redundant data and to enhance system performance, integrity and security.

Task 1: Determine during the design phase of system development, whether information sharing with other agencies is feasible and desirable to meet common or expanded information needs, and compatibility.

Objective: State agency IT-based services will be coordinated to meet the initiatives of state, local, and federal government levels.

Task 1: Review all agency profiles and plans for program coordination, application development and data sharing activities with other agencies (state, local, federal, tribal), other states, private industry, and non-governmental organizations.

Task 2: Ensure compatibility and compliance with respective state IT plans.

Objective: Make operations more efficient - eliminate an/or reduce paper-based processing and redundant data entry.

Task 1: Evaluate current processing events to identify redundancy.

Objective: Improve criminal justice decision-making ability.

Task 1: Provide authorized users quality access to information to base arrest, bail, prosecution, adjudication, sentencing, and correctional supervision.

Objective: Ensure Privacy Rights:  Establish security mechanisms within the system to ensure that inappropriate information dissemination does not occur and the privacy rights of all individuals are protected.

Task 1: Review privacy rights within the agency so that the rights adhere to the current process provided by your state's IT plan and the Freedom of Information Act.

Objective:  Identify personnel within the agency to participate in data consolidation, whether outsourced or directed by the state's IT department.  Agency personnel should take an active role in setting policies and implementing system changes.  There should be representation on the advisory committee from each of the criminal justice agencies.