Department of Corrections

Goals

Update:

Objectives

Upgrade/replace secure facility control systems and enhance
staff/offender safety

Update: Corrections didn't receive funding to move forward
Establish Remote Supervision services for Community Corrections

Update: Business unit hasn't moved forward with developing requirements. Additionally, we had a major re-organization in Probation and Parole Division which is now Public Safety Division.
Upgrade Department radio system to replace end of life and broken
radios using a leasing model

Update: Some upgrading has been done with existing funds. We didn't get funding last session.
Expand Department video Surveillance presence to comply with PREA
audit recommendations and increase staff and offender safety

Update: Cameras were procured but due to Covid and supply chain issues for switching equipment and getting vendors on site for wiring, we are only about 80% implemented with the new cameras.
Research and expand Distance learning capacities for educational
needs of offenders in secure custody

Update: This is ongoing and will continue to expand. Corrections has been participatory in the Digitial Equity initiative. The overarching education plan is being worked on by education stakeholders to determine what they will be educating on so we can build the infrastructure around it. In collaboration with SITSD, the Department has procured Palo Alto hardwire to fully isolation offender networks from Summitnet affording more expansion without compromising security.

Update: This is constantly ongoing. However due to staff turnover and ramp up time to retrain developers in the system and standards, it has been slow. We intend on looking at a COTS solution as a replacement as reflected in the 2022 Strategic plan.

Objectives

In conjunction with our OMIS governance committee, identify
enhancements to strengthen data collection methods are appropriate
for program evaluations by appropriate stake-holders.

Update: This is constantly ongoing. However due to staff turnover and ramp up time to retrain developers in the system and standards, it has been slow. We intend on looking at a COTS solution as a replacement as reflected in the 2022 Strategic plan.
Make available reporting structures for interested parties/stakeholders
so those parties have the data they need, when they need it

Update: The Department has created a new bureau of staff dedicated to this reporting and has created several dashboards leveraging Tableau, and for more complex reporting leverages Jasper Reports. The new reporting bureau is in the beginning stages of looking at and leveraging Snowflake for shared data.

Update: This is constant and ongoing

Objectives

All enhancement requests to the Department’s information systems
(Offender Management Information System (OMIS) and Youth
Management System (YMS)) will be managed using an appropriate
project management methodology.

Update: This is constant and ongoing albeit enhancements are slow due to staff resource and turnover.
Feature documentation will be produced and updated throughout the
cycle and conduct development status sessions

Update: This is constant and ongoing and includes training for each module.

Department of Corrections

Goals

Where and when possible, automate business practices to make the practices more efficient and cost effective.

Objectives

Continue with enhancements to OMIS to Increase safety of communities, staff and offenders and to allow to collaborate with criminal justice partners were possible.

Objectives

Utilize the appropriate level of project management methodology for all information system enhancement activities.

Objectives

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