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Supervisors press for governance, timeline and funding to finish Justice data-sharing hub
Summary
After a multi-agency hearing, supervisors urged strengthened governance, a consolidated budget and a timeline to complete Justice's hub-and-spoke data integration; agencies described phased progress, interface limits with the legacy mainframe and the need for more resources for analytics and a permanent program.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee devoted the bulk of its Nov. 15 meeting to the Justice Information Tracking System ("Justice"), a two-decade effort to replace the city's legacy court-mainframe and integrate criminal-justice case data across agencies.
Supervisor Norman Yee framed the hearing, saying Justice began in the late 1990s after the murder of Claire Joyce Timbongo highlighted coordination failures. "It seemed ridiculous to me that data was not streamlined in the first place to help expedite cases," Yee said, urging renewed Board attention.
Rob Castellia, Justice project manager in the Office of the City Administrator, described the Justice Hub as an integration tool designed to connect each agency's case-management systems so they can share critical data. He told the committee some feeds to Justice are near real time (for example, the sheriff's…
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