What is the trend of information technology in the justice community?
Current information systems in the justice sphere range from predominantly paper driven to those that are highly automated and interactive. Increasingly, justice agencies are working together to plan, design, and implement integrated justice information sharing systems. These systems enhance the ability to collect, access, and use information, including personal information, and allow information to be entered once and used across and between many different agency systems. The term “integrated justice system” may describe different levels of justice information sharing, depending upon the context in which it is used. In 1999, the National Criminal Justice Association and the Search Group, Inc. developed a definition of integrated justice systems that has been adopted by OJP and its counterparts. As it is used in this document, the term “integrated justice systems” encompasses interagency, interdisciplinary, and intergovernmental information systems that access, collect, use, and dissem
