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Council hears briefing on Employee Access rollout, authentication hurdles for jail and courts

Okaloosa County Information Technology Council · April 21, 2026
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Summary

IT staff presented plans to move county employees to Tyler’s Employee Access portal and described authentication options (Tyler identity federation or vendor-provided Okta flow); staff warned turning on Tyler identity for time clocks would require countywide changes and no formal action was taken.

At the April 20 meeting the Okaloosa County Information Technology Council heard a briefing from Mr. Lacey on plans to migrate from Employee Self‑Service to Tyler’s Employee Access portal and the authentication implications for employees who use non‑county domains, such as jail or state (OSEN) accounts.

Lacey said Employee Access is live but the county has not migrated users because of difficulties authenticating non‑Okaloosa accounts. He described two options: create local Okaloosa County accounts for those users or use Tyler identity (TID) to…

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