Shane McCracken, director of Norris — the Northwest Ohio Regional Information System operated under the CJCC umbrella — told the committee Norris supports criminal-justice data exchange across courts, police and jails.

McCracken said Norris serves 88 member agencies with about 2,800 users at any given time and processes roughly 12–14 million transactions per month, including criminal-history queries, warrants, case-management and jail records. He described integrations that move data from policing (Scribe reporting) into court case-management systems and inmate records to reduce duplicate manual entry.

"Our goal is to make everyone's job in the criminal justice arena easier, efficient, at a low cost," McCracken said, adding that Norris provides local network infrastructure and application development under a flat budget despite rising IT costs.

Why it matters: Committee members were told Norris’s integrations allow courts, police and jail staff to look up warrants and case status across local, state and federal systems, improving officers’ access to information and supporting case processing efficiency.

Next steps and risks: Norris leaders said infrastructure costs are rising; they pointed to the need for continued investment to sustain system reliability and integrations. There was no committee vote on IT funding during the meeting.