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Commissioners press vendors on ticketing software and video problems as IT pay and jail backlogs surface
Summary
Dimmit County commissioners pushed for vendor meetings after JPs reported Southern Software has not linked to the sheriff's system (Intech), forcing manual citation entry; commissioners also discussed unreadable traffic videos, jail staffing changes, and a grand jury delay that has prevented indictments since July.
County officials spent substantial time on Oct. 27 addressing persistent problems with the county’s citation and evidence systems and on justice-system capacity.
Sonia Guerrero Perez, justice of the peace for Precinct 1, told the court her office is still manually entering traffic citations because Southern Software—recently contracted to handle citation intake—has not been bridged to the sheriff’s Intech system. Commissioners described repeated attempts to get Southern Software and Intech to…
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