Active Warrant Alert Calendar
Sexual Offenders Walking Free
Several high-profile cases have recently served as horrific reminders that violent criminals and sex offenders must be monitored and tracked to ensure the safety of our communities. Unfortunately it is difficult to ensure that high-risk criminals remain in jail for several reasons:
- Judges must make bail and warrant decisions based on incomplete information
- Information is held in multiple systems across jurisdictions, making the collection of all the pertinent information very difficult
- High growth areas are challenged to administer justice without a growth in resources to correspond
- Active Warrant Alert hearing can occur before the court has all the facts on each person booked
Automated Criminal and Civil History Search at Time of Booking
Metatomix Active Warrant Alert Calendar (AWAC) provides complete and accurate information to law enforcement booking agents regarding the criminal and civil history of sexual offenders / predators at the time of booking. Further, First Appearance automatically pushes this information to a Dashboard that acts as a judge’s First Appearance Calendaring System, ensuring judges receive crucial and timely notification of a suspect’s sexual offender/predator status and history.
Enabling Judges to Make the Right Booking and Bail Decisions
Key AWAC features include:
- Real-Time Events. Perform automatic, comprehensive background checks on all arrestees in a timely manner, triggered by their booking
- Alerting when a potential threat is identified. Quickly notify the booking officials and the courts of a high-risk individual before their first appearance, keeping them in custody and off the street
- Integrated View via First Appearance Calendaring Dashboard. Through the First Appearance Calendaring Dashboard, court officials can view all relevant information on the individual before them, from all available sources
- Communication Security. Transport all data in a secure manner, using digital certificates and industry standard HTTPS protocol
- NIEM/GJXDM Compliant. Provides NIEM and GJXML-based data exchanges and interoperability, enabling future expansion and integration based on federally defined and mandated standards
- Data is accessed in place (no data warehouse required). Agencies maintain full control over their database content
- Connectivity is non-invasive. No software updates or modifications to existing systems are required
- Implementation time is quick. Faster time to benefit for all parties
- Additional data sources can be added cost-effectively. Sources such as Dept. of Corrections, Sex Offender Registry, case management systems, etc. can be added in a matter of days
Keeping Dangerous Criminals Behind Bars
By accessing all of the information you need at the critical moment you need it, you are empowered to make the informed decisions that keep violent criminals off the streets.
Benefits include:
- Supports the Jessica Lunsford Act and similar sex offender legislation requiring instant notification to the courts on registered sex offenders
- Identifies high-risk offenders based on business rules and flexible policies
- Enables more effective subject risk evaluation and alerting
- Overcomes historical data-sharing issues by allowing agencies to retain data ownership
"It has been a valuable tool by being able to pull all the necessary resources through one site as opposed to having to go to all of the different sites. It has saved a great amount of time for an analyst."
