Cook County task force proposes interagency data center to speed enforcement of protective orders

Katie Dunn, presenter for the Cook County Violence Against Women Task Force, proposed creating a public–private interagency data center to improve coordination on “high priority” court orders — protective orders, warrants and firearm-restraining orders — and to recommend that model to the Cook County Board and the city council this July. “The Cook County Violence Against Women Task Force is recommending a public private partnership to create a national model for an interagency data center focused on high priority court orders,” Dunn said during the task force meeting.

The recommendation would bring together court case information (Odyssey), Chicago and Cook County 9-1-1 systems, the Illinois State Police, FOID and concealed-carry reporting, the Secretary of State, the Cook County Clerk and the attorney general’s VINES victim-notification system. Dunn said the…