NCJ Number
181637
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 62 Issue: 1 Dated: February 2000 Pages: 52-55
Date Published
February 2000
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This article describes Oregon’s Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS).
Abstract
The vision of JJIS is to promote public safety, youth and juvenile justice accountability, and opportunities for youth rehabilitation through the development of a statewide information system. Using the JJIS, Oregon’s county juvenile departments and the Oregon Youth Authority share electronic records with real-time access to a common database. County and state juvenile parole officers use JJIS to manage their cases. Local detention staff and State institutional staff use JJIS to manage and track populations. State and county administrators rely on JJIS as a management tool. Oregon’s legislators and its governor expect JJIS to help them with difficult policy decisions--ranging from institutional funding to funding for intervention programs that have demonstrated success--when they convene for Oregon’s next biennial legislative session in 2001. The JJIS steering committee must decide who should, and legally can, have access; how to provide ongoing training; appropriate interfaces with other criminal justice databases; and what this new system will reveal about the quality and effectiveness of Oregon’s juvenile justice system as a whole.