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The Florida Supreme Court, Office of State Courts Administrator Expands Metatomix Integrated Justice Solution to Support Jessica Lunsford Act

Existing Solution Automates Comprehensive Real-Time Background Checks for Sexual Predators Prior to All First Appearances

Ninth Annual Court Technology Show Booth #1111 -- Metatomix, a leading provider of real-time composite application solutions, today announced that the Florida Supreme Court has chosen to expand the deployment of the Metatomix Judicial Inquiry System to support requirements of the Jessica Lunsford Act.

The existing Judicial Inquiry System (JIS), developed in conjunction with Metatomix and the Florida State Court System, streamlines information from a variety of Florida agencies into a single, central dashboard accessible by judges and support related personnel while allowing participating agencies to retain control over their individual database content. The system allows authorized users to query critical information simultaneously among participating state data sources. The system currently connects to 13 systems including the:

--  Florida Crime Information Center (FCIC)
--  The Florida Summary (a summary of the Florida Rap Sheet providing easy
    readability)
--  National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
--  Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV)
--  Department of Corrections (DOC)
--  Comprehensive Case Information System (CCIS)
    

The system has been credited with providing in-depth and comprehensive criminal history information in minutes in an extremely cost effective manner, enabling more background checks to be performed to support more informed decisions by judges and court support staff.

Under the Jessica Lunsford Act, the Office of State Courts Administrator (OSCA) is expanding both system intelligence and data source access. Some of the new systems will include:

--  The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Sexual Predator Information
--  The Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ)
--  Real-time booking data,
--  Stolen Vehicle Information and;
--  Two separate databases from the Department of Children and Families
    (DCF).
    

Leveraging the additional agency information, the Metatomix solution will automate processes and information gathering for qualified parties involved in first appearance processing (i.e., judges, state attorneys, public defenders, and sheriffs).

For example, once a person is booked at the jail facility, booking data will be queried statewide every 15 minutes, which in turn will send demographic information and any other identifiers to the JIS. This information, along with data found on the other databases connected to JIS, will be automatically "pushed" to specified confidential Jessica Lunsford Act website locations. These website locations will be available through the secure State Courts Network. It will then be easily accessible by the judge, state attorney, public defender, sheriff, and any others qualified to access and view this data at first appearance.

Additionally, if a person is a sexual predator or has potentially violated probation, the JIS will perform an automated notification and immediately notify the booking facility and appropriate parties (i.e. Department of Corrections), so that they cannot bond out and so that bail is not set for this individual until after the first appearance hearing has been conducted.

"We see the capability to perform automatic, comprehensive background checks on all arrestees in a timely manner, triggered by their booking, critical to keeping high risk individuals in jail," said Mike Love, Chief Information Officer for the Florida State Court System. "The goal is to quickly notify the booking officials and the courts before their first appearance so they cannot slip away and cause further harm to the public."

"We are proud that our software can be used to coordinate and intelligently correlate cross-agency data in real-time to help law enforcement and the courts assess high risk arrestees with the goal of keeping the public safer," said Mike Kinkead, President & CEO of Metatomix. "We have a great partnership with the Florida Supreme Court that has resulted in a robust, cost effective solution. We are now working in conjunction with the Circuit courts and the counties to share local agency data with a vision to create an even more comprehensive statewide network of information-sharing. This network is focused on providing law enforcement and the Courts with the most up-to-date, comprehensive information in real-time to make the best decisions possible."

When completed, the functionality will be available as one module of the Metatomix Integrated Justice Solution, which in addition to the Jessica Lunsford Act First Appearance Module also includes a Judicial Inquiry System for Courts, Judicial Data Exchange for Attorneys and Criminal Investigation for Law Enforcement. Together, this solution enables real-time, bi-directional, cross-Agency information sharing without local jurisdictions losing control of their data. No expensive data warehouse is required.

Metatomix is exhibiting at the 9th Annual Court Technology Conference in booth #1111 and will be presenting "3 Case studies in 30 minutes" -- Metatomix clients showcase Integrated Justice Solutions that make a difference in the lives of their citizens on Wednesday, September 14th at 4:15 in Showcase #1 -- Room 4C-1.

About Metatomix

Metatomix 's intelligent realtime composite application platform combines W3C standards with rules, workflow, and semantic capabilities to deploy SOA-ready applications that traverse data, events, and process silos to generate realtime operational intelligence, pinpoint business impact, and trigger action. Metatomix customers streamline end to end enterprise processes in banking, finance, government and healthcare. For more information, contact Metatomix at www.Metatomix.com

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