Napa County Criminal Justice Facilities*

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The County develop and implement a standardized program to track recidivism for juvenile offenders. Original Response, Chief Probation Officer: The recommendation requires further analysis. As mentioned in the response to Finding No. 1, the Juvenile Information Management System (JIMS) has recidivism data, the challenge is developing a way to extract and report data. The JIMS system is in need of replacement and the Chief Probation Officer is working with Information Technology Services (ITS) Department on a timeline to replace the system. It is unclear at this time whether recidivism data can easily be extracted and reported from the current system. The current focus in the criminal justice system has been the replacement of the much larger Adult Criminal Justice Information Management System (CJIMS). While the county agrees that reporting juvenile recidivism is important, the Chief Probation Officer will continue to work with ITS to determine whether this project can be completely concurrently with the CJIMS upgrade or will need to wait until the CJIMS project is complete and the JIMS system is replaced. The Chief Probation Officer expects the analysis to be complete by December 2010. Update: The analysis is now complete and it has been determined that the systems cannot be replaced concurrently. The CJIMS project is moving forward. The JIMS replacement will not occur until the CJIMS project is complete. Juvenile Probation will continue to collect the recidivism data that is currently required for state funding projects but other data has been too difficult to extract from the current system.