Navajo Nation Integrated Justice Information Sharing Project (NNIJISP)

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NNIJISP is an initiative of the Judicial Branch in partnership with the Division of Public Safety and the Office of the Chief Prosecutor.  The goals are to expand automated case management support to the courts (district, family and appellate), probation, peacemaking, prosecutors and public defenders; and implement NIEM and SOA based information exchanges between criminal justice entities. 

The design of NNIJISP follows a Needs Assessment Report generated by the National Center for State Courts following a site visit on March 20-23, 2007.  The overall strategic plan consists of modernizing to new technologies and integrating agency systems to foster collaboration and effective communication and sharing of information within and across agency and jurisdictional boundaries. The Technology Oversight Committee (TOC) will be responsible for development of NNIJISP.  On August 27, 2009, the IJIS Institute released its technical assistance report following its May 12-15, 2009 data gathering visit to the Navajo Nation justice community.  Here are links to the abstract and the full IJIS TA report.

New Dawn Technologies was selected by the NNIJISP Technology Oversight Committee on Friday, September 11, to supply an integrated case management system for the courts, probation, peacemaking, prosecutor, and defender in the Shiprock Police and Judicial District on a Proof of Concept basis.  If successful, the case management system will then go through the process of approval for roll-out to the remaining districts in the Navajo Nation. 

News updated 06/22/2010

Seven participants from the Navajo Nation attended the JustWare Annual Training in Logan, Utah on June 6 - 11.  Among other purposes, the training was intended to permit participants to mix with users from other jurisdictions, see the facilities, and train on the  application hands-on in a lab.  Below is some feedback. 

 

Nelson Billy, Programmer Analyst Supervisor, NNDIT--

New Dawn Technologies’ JustWare conference provided an opportunity for me to learn more about the application.  I learn how privileges are set up in Justware.  There are four default security profiles in JustWare which are View_only, General user, Power user, and Admin user. The first thing you have to do to give users privileges is create a SQL login in SQL Server.  There are four privileges that can be assigned to a user in Justware which are  view, delete, update, and insert.  Once a SQL login is created you create a security profile for the user and you assign them to one of the four default security profiles to make them members of that profile.  If a user needs more flexible privileges then you can allow privileges in the user own security profiles.  JustWare also has a feature called Business Rules. These are custom business rules that allow user to automate process in any form they choose.  There are triggers already define and you can create your own business rules if need be.  There are other features such data partitioning which allow user to hide certain cases or data from other users.  Then there is the code partitioning which allow user to hide items off the dropdown menu on any forms. The JustWare conference was a eye opening experience. 

Ethel Laughing, Shiprock Court Administrator--

JustWare Training was awesome, it was an introduction of the system and learning about the JustWare capabilities of case management, administration, finance, justiceweb, and many others.    Participated in the following sessions:  JustWare for end users; manage your staff with JustWare; security; maintaining your JustWare database; performance measures; financials; introduction to business rules; system reports; JustWare utilities; upgrades and what new in JustWare 5.3 and JusticeWeb; and hearing story on Spokane Municipal Prosecutor’s Office JustWare.    I also got a chance to hear out some pro/cons from users of JustWare.   Attending this training, it gave me that reassurance JustWare capabilities will address needs of the Shiprock Judicial District.  

I’m excited and looking forward to projected date for go-live.  

Candida Foster, Shiprock Family Court Clerk--

I think it would be a really good system for the courts as far as accountability, me being a court clerk, our CA would actually know which clerks are working, case accounting, and managing your cases, and that's what I like about it the most.  I notice it will eliminate a lot of paper especially with the scheduling of cases in both our district and family courts, it would eliminate double scheduling.  The capabilities of the new software is really neat.  As we go along, we will be able to go more high tech, even in creating our own formulas. 

Before I went to this training, I was lost, but after the training I have a better understanding of what you can do hands on.  They gave us lab training, which was really neat and hands on.  E.g. how the judges will be able to go into the system, and see different case schedulings, and we clerks will be able to set up custom. 

Anthony Spencer,BSA NNIJISP, Shiprock District & Family Courts--

I feel the training was beneficial to me overall; it gave me a better understanding of what it was capable of and what it could not do. I attended 14 classes overall, they were all informative, but it was a lot of information in the short period of time it was presented.

I attended the introduction to Justware Business rules, which I felt would benefit the Navajo Nation, in the class I learned of the SQL database which runs a minority of the programs in Justware. I learned about triggers and ending results and about adding data into the SQL database and achieving various results for different screens in Justware (although it will take some time to really and fully understand the formula and such).

Other classes  such as administrative  training were very informative; this class provided a better understanding of the code tables; how it is done to achieve results to case statistics, case reporting; how to  give me users different type of usage clearances, from level 1 to level 6. Other classes included security, performance measures, going green, utilities, system administrative training, JDA documents, Maintaining Justware, one lab class in business rules, Intro to business rules and advanced business rules.

I enjoyed the training and I hope to apply all that I have learned in the near future.

Gloria J. Dee, Legal Secretary, Shiprock District Prosecutors Office--

The training was great.  I was glad to be given the opportunity to meet the New Dawn techies who will be working on this project. I appreciate that I had the opportunity to work with the Justware software in a 3.5 hr lab and was very interesting. Will make our jobs alot easier once we initiate the software.  Participants were given a USB jump drive covering training. The overall classes and conference was great.