AmCad

Addressing the complexity of the criminal justice process

Starting with identifying a suspect and continuing through rehabilitation of an offender, the lifecycle of the justice process includes law enforcement, legal agencies, courts, jails, prisons, probation and numerous support organizations.

Much has been done, yet much remains to be accomplished

Through information sharing governance, technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and standards including the National Information Exchange Model, significant progress has been made to address the incongruence across the justice process.  However, information sharing between criminal justice agencies is still in its early stages of development. 

How we can to make it better

Due to sheer number of agencies involved each bringing process variations, high workload volumes and differences in data, more complexity has been introduced into sharing information across the justice community.  It is our goal to address this complexity at the lowest level, integrate the criminal justice functions for the agencies and departments that process the charges, adjudicate the case, incarcerate the criminal and rehabilitate the offender – especially given these departments have very tightly coupled business processes. The justice process involves different agencies performing their mandated function that ultimately converges to a single person.

Introducing AmCad’s Justice Platform

Imagine a justice solution that is person-centric and extends from one end of the criminal justice spectrum to the other while maintaining the integrity of the data and information about each person throughout the system in a seamless manner. The AmCad Justice Platform is designed to do just that.  

 AmCad has its justice solution roots in the court case management space – which over the years has now expanded to address many prosecution and pretrial services, and sentencing and sanctions.

From the moment a person leaves the hands of law enforcement and enters the criminal justice system, everything about that person – warrants, cases, sentences, sanctions and probation is already known to us. Our Court solution simply had to interface and integrate with several other systems (Magistrate, Jail Management to name a few) to obtain this information.  Our Justice Platform provides these agencies and users with a common integrated and seamless platform, significantly reducing and often eliminating the need for integration. While some integration is still required with law enforcement and state and federal departments, integration at the local level is significantly reduced with our Justice Platform. AmCad believes in justice information exchange and is a strong proponent and user of the National Information Exchange Model. We also believe in uniformity within the criminal justice system and a fully integrated, scalable, configurable, adaptable and flexible single vendor solution.  Spanning the sequence of the justice process goes a long way towards addressing the complexity inherent to the criminal justice system.

Who can the Justice Platform Serve

 Built on a single codebase, sharing the same libraries, developed by the same team, the Justice Platform is modular and can serve the criminal justice community for large and small jurisdictions. The Justice Platform brings end-user friendly case management functionality while easing a jurisdiction’s Information Technology demands by reducing the number of systems and their maintenance.

The Justice Platform is built to serve the criminal justice community with:

1.    Magistrate Case Management & Warrants – From when a person leaves the hands of law enforcement and is charged with a crime, our solution is tailored for magistrates to assess probable cause, initiate cases and issue warrants.

2.    Pre-Trial Services – Providing victim based services, supporting the adjudication process with pre-sentence investigation reports and managing court programs and compliance are important and involved tasks.  

3.    District Attorney System – Supporting investigation of both charged and un-charged cases, grand jury process, maintaining confidentiality of case information and electronic filing to the court on charged cases.

4.    Public Defender System – Recording case load management, attorney’s notes, schedule management, and court proceedings are critical functions tightly integrated with the prosecution and adjudication process.

5.    Court Case Management – Our flagship offering supports criminal, civil, probate, domestic relations, traffic and juvenile courts. It supports flexible scheduling and calendaring functions and a fully GAAP compliant financial module that is in turn used across our Justice Platform.

6.    Jail Management System – From when charges and filed to when sentences are issued, the integrated Jail Management system supports intake using biometric identification and over 30 modules managing the business processes of jails through the release of an inmate.

7.    Probation – Managing drug and alcohol programs including testing, compliance with community control sanctions, victim restitution, and accounting of probation fees are supported capabilities.

The criminal justice community now has the benefit of partnering to implement a single solution from a single vendor with a common look and feel that significantly reduces complexity and overhead. One company, one phone call for all your criminal justice solution needs!