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San Juan police present plan to shift from paper to electronic citations
Summary
The police department heard a vendor demonstration of an electronic citation system that would let officers issue QR-code tickets from phones, streamline court reporting and payments, and reduce data-entry time; the presentation raised questions about costs, privacy, and potential revenue incentives.
The San Juan Police Department presented an electronic citation proposal during the Oct. 8 Commission meeting, describing how officers would issue QR-code citations from cellphones and transmit ticket data directly to the municipal court.
The presentation, given by a representative of Trusted Driver and the police chief, explained the vendor’s web-based system: officers scan a driver license with a mobile device, the software auto-populates driver and vehicle fields and issues a citation number and a QR code the motorist can scan to view or pay the citation online. The vendor said the system integrates with the court management system (CMS), supports analytics (tickets by precinct or officer), and can automate state racial-profiling reporting that currently is entered manually.
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