Noon to 1:25 p.m. ARMS Part II: In follow up to the presentation by Lt. Roberts, DPS on the DPS Alaska Records Management System (ARMS) earlier this year Ted Bachman, ARMS Project Manager provided additional technical information on the system, the status of interfaces, demonstrated its capabilities and answered questions. ARMS is a statewide system so all agencies using ARMS have the ability to research all information input by all agencies and benefit from the associative value as more agencies enter their reports into it. Each agency has its own domain so agencies have the ability to control access to their own information. UCR functionality is going to be added to the system. Ted demonstrated the system, including the multiple ways to search information. The system contains a detailed offense table which includes many but not all crimes defined by regulation, such as the fish and game criminal offenses. The system audits user activity recording time, user information, what changes are made and by – whom. Once reports have been entered and verified by supervisors, they are locked and cannot be changed even by the author. Reports can be generated in the system without connectivity and then are sent to the database once connectivity is established. Voice functionality would make it easier for officers to enter reports, and this is currently being tested. Ted demonstrated custom and saved searches for investigations. These are also useful for management Shawn Stendevad reported that ARMS has already been statistical reporting. DOR’s very helpful in several investigations. Fields can be sorted by date, case, date of birth, etc. The capabilities for e discovery are being assessed (sending reports electronically). Ted system’s explained how the property tagging and chain of custody work in ARMS. He also reminded agencies that the system was available at low cost to all law enforcement agencies in Alaska. All new AST officers are being trained in ARMS at the Academy. Approximately 800 people have been transitioned from paper-based reporting to ARMS since it went live in 2012. Training videos and documents are also available as well as extensive in person training. 1: 25 to 1:30 p.m. provided a brief update on the Helen MOA to ACS Electronic Criminal Charging Document Project approved at the Criminal Justice Information Advisory September 25 meeting as Board’s the project to demonstrate the Global Reference Architecture (GRA). An initial planning meeting is scheduled for October 30, 2013. A work session will be held at the Snowden Building Training
Noon to 1:25 p.m. ARMS Part II: In follow up to the presentation by Lt. Roberts, DPS on the DPS Alaska Records Management System (ARMS) earlier this year Ted Bachman, ARMS Project Manager provided additional technical information on the system, the status of interfaces, demonstrated its capabilities and answered questions. ARMS is a statewide system so all agencies using ARMS have the ability to research all information input by all agencies and benefit from the associative value as more agencies enter their reports into it. Each agency has its own domain so agencies have the ability to control access to their own information. UCR functionality is going to be added to the system. Ted demonstrated the system, including the multiple ways to search information. The system contains a detailed offense table which includes many but not all crimes defined by regulation, such as the fish and game criminal offenses. The system audits user activity – recording time, user information, what changes are made and by whom. Once reports have been entered and verified by supervisors, they are locked and cannot be changed even by the author. Reports can be generated in the system without connectivity and then are sent to the database once connectivity is established. Voice functionality would make it easier for officers to enter reports, and this is currently being tested. Ted demonstrated custom and saved searches for investigations. These are also useful for management statistical reporting. DOR’s Shawn Stendevad reported that ARMS has already been very helpful in several investigations. Fields can be sorted by date, case, date of birth, etc. The system’s capabilities for e discovery are being assessed (sending reports electronically). Ted explained how the property tagging and chain of custody work in ARMS. He also reminded agencies that the system was available at low cost to all law enforcement agencies in Alaska. All new AST officers are being trained in ARMS at the Academy. Approximately 800 people have been transitioned from paper-based reporting to ARMS since it went live in 2012. Training videos and documents are also available as well as extensive in person training. 1: 25 to 1:30 p.m. Helen provided a brief update on the MOA to ACS Electronic Criminal Charging Document Project approved at the Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board’s September 25 meeting as the project to demonstrate the Global Reference Architecture (GRA). An initial planning meeting is scheduled for October 30, 2013. A work session will be held at the Snowden Building Training