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Commission advances KCER next‑gen application, approves $50,000 contract extension
Summary
The commission reported progress developing the KCER successor to SGS Web, demonstrated sentencing‑generation screens, and approved a $50,000 contract extension for the application developer.
The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing reported milestones on the KCER application—its replacement for SGS Web—and approved a three‑month, not‑to‑exceed $50,000 contract extension for an external developer working on the project.
Christy Rubin, Applications and IT unit manager, told commissioners the team completed screens and functionality that generate sentencing guidelines within the new Caser (KCER) application and is wrapping testing for guideline generation. She showed screenshots of the offense gravity score and prior record score screens, the sentence recommendation screen and a redesigned guideline form aimed at making judge-facing information easier to find.
Contract approval: The commission moved and voted to approve a service purchase contract with Carbon Creek to extend developer services through June for up to $50,000. Judge Thomas McDermott made the motion; Judge Michael McLaughlin seconded. The commission recorded an affirmative vote and the contract was approved without objection.
Why the project matters: The KCER application is intended to replace the legacy SGS Web system and to incorporate the eighth edition guidelines, the statutory sentencing risk assessment and improved reporting. Rubin said the team is keeping SGS Web operational in parallel while development continues and deployed maintenance updates on Feb. 27 to correct a risk‑assessment scoring issue and to implement statutory changes from Act 144 of 2022 and Act 16 of 2024.
Rollout timeline: Rubin displayed the project roadmap and said the team remains on track with a development and testing timeline through fall 2026 and state rollout concluding in 2027. She said the in‑house team and the contracted developer have reached key milestones: offense creation fixes, prior record score functionality, sentence risk assessment implementation and the new guideline report.
Operational numbers: Rubin reported that, as of Jan. 31, SGS Web contained over 116,000 sentences with 2024 sentencing dates and about 5,000 with 2025 sentencing dates. The commission said it will invite judge members to review the new guideline form and incorporate feedback before broader deployment.
Next steps: Staff will continue testing sentencing‑generation functionality, begin work on sentence submission functionality in KCER, and carry forward parallel maintenance and statutory updates to SGS Web.
