276 - Parking Tickets issued in SECTOR - Interim resolution

 
Request Status Summary
Request Status In Progress
Status Comment 10/12/2020 Project underway.
Request Detail
Requestor Name:
   Autry, Angie on behalf of WSP's Lt Dave Putnam
Origination Date:
   08/27/2019
    
Recommended Endorser:
   AOC (endorses for other communities)
Request Type: Change or Enhancement
Which Systems are affected? Judicial Information System (JIS)
Business Area: Parking
Communities Impacted: CLJ Judges
CLJ Managers
Impact if not Resolved: Medium
Impact Description:

AOC would need to prepare a report that combines the Parking Type law data needed from the local Law Table entries and the local courts' table entris from the PRKVIO table, which would show what laws and amounts to add into SECTOR, for which jurisdictions, for that individual court.

Determine how to replicate that process for each new court that is willing to accept tickets issued in SECTOR.

Determine how to set up a scheduled update of the same information to send to SECTOR Support for each court that comes online. [This cannot be done statewide or all officers would be able to begin doing so without approval of their local court.]

Determine the amount of testing needed to validate that the tickets being generated from SECTOR will be able to be filed in the newly on-boarded court (would receive test paper tickets to add to JIS DVOL to test, not sent electronically).

Determine the amount of time it will take the designated person assigned to shepherd each new court/lea grouping onto the process (similar to VRV process).

What is the Business Problem or Opportunity

Washington State Patrol (WSP) and other Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) officers want to be able to use the program SECTOR to generate eTickets for parking tickets the way they do for tickets against an individual. The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) has stated we cannot support doing the level of work it would take to make that happen while using the Judicial Information System (JIS) and have them received electronically but the process will be easier once a new Courts of Limited Jurisdiction Case Management System (CLJ-CMS) is implemented. In the meantime, the requestors are willing to use the SECTOR application to create the tickets and manually file the tickets with the courts that are willing to accept them that way and are willing to use the statewide Uniform Infraction Citation Committee (UICC) approved eTicket infraction, rather than their individualized local parking ticket forms. Additionally the officers agreed to manually sign the tickets to resolve any signature questions related to them not going through electronically end-to-end as identified currently in GR 30.

The tickets must be issued only using the locally added parking laws for each jurisdiction within a court; WSP cannot simply add statewide RCWs or local ordinance numbers to use for citing. This means AOC must create a new local parking law and parking violation code table combined report that would need generated and sent to WSP SECTOR Support for loading into SECTOR, so only the violations that each jurisdiction allows filed, within a particular court, will be able to be cited within SECTOR, based on the court and jurisdiction selected in SECTOR.

They are requesting to do a small pilot initially, for example the City of Lacey, to load the local parking laws and jurisdiction combinations to use for testing. A larger court that does multiple jurisdictions would need to be tested afterwards, to validate that SECTOR does actually limit the available parking laws based on jurisdiction and court. Once validated the LEAs around the state would slowly begin requesting to be added, similar to onboarding a new eTicket or Vehicle Related Violation (VRV) jurisdiction - each LEA/Court must agree to go forward before it can begin and that court's laws and violation codes would be added to the upload to SECTOR Support.

Additionally a new regularly scheduled upload would need to be done for all involved courts so changes in parking laws and violation codes are sent to SECTOR, similar to the current Law Table Updates that are done. This would need to remain separate from the Law Table Updates as only those courts that agree to accept parking tickets this way would have their laws made available in SECTOR.

Expected Benefit:

Safety for the officers - less time on the roads to issue manually written parking tickets.

Allow officers to have one program for all work.

Clarity of tickets - hand writing issues can cause confusion or difficulty in entering tickets at the court.

Working towards standardization of forms and processes across the state in both the LEAs and the courts.

Additionally, many officers are no longer trained on writing manual tickets the way they once were as it is mostly used for back-up purposes at this point, except for parking tickets. Many don't carry ticket books as the cost of updating the ticket books each time the laws change is costly and cannot be done in small batches.

Any Additional Information:

This has been a long outstanding change request in eTrip. After meeting with Lt. Putnam and Officer Johansen from Lacey PD, they confirmed that while the requesting agency has since paid for an electronic parking program, the request is still valid. They confirmed this is the most common item asked for when speaking at LEA conferences. It is not clear to the officers in the field why they cannot issue parking tickets in the same program as it isn't a limitation of SECTOR but is a limitation of JIS.

Endorsement Detail
Endorsing Committee
   AOC (endorses for other communities)
Endorser Name:
   Diseth, Veronica
Origination Date:
   09/19/2019
Endorsing Action: Endorsed
AOC Analysis Detail
Analysis Date: 06/09/2020
Request Rationale
Aligns with JIS Business Priorities, IT Strategies & Plans: No
Aligns with applicable policies and with ISD Standards: Yes
Breadth of Solution Benefit: Narrow
Cost Estimates
Cost to Implement? $29,222
Projected Maintenance cost? TBD
Feasibility Study needed? No
Court Level User Group
Non-JIS
Approving Authority Administrator
Request Summary:

This request is to provide an interim solution to allow parking citations to be entered through SECTOR, which will be manually filed at the courts for entry into the JIS Parking Sub-system. The CLJ-CMS project team will then work with WSP to automate the submission of the parking infractions, in addition to the infraction and criminal citations, allowing all tickets to be electronically submitted for entry into the new CLJ-CMS implemented program.

Business Impacts:

This change will allow officers to have one program for all work and will provide clarity on tickets as hand writing issues can cause confusion or difficulty in entering tickets at the court. Additionally implementation of this change assists AOC and its eTrip partners in their work towards standardization of forms and processes across the state in both the LEAs and the courts.

The courts will need to be willing to accept the manually filed parking tickets that use the same ticket format as the eTickets issued for infraction and criminal citations. AOC and WSP staff will work together to confirm both the LEA and the court are in agreement to begin doing the SECTOR parking tickets and an internal process will need to be set up to add the court's parking laws to the report that is regularly sent to WSP.

Summary of Proposed Solution

The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) proposes to add parking violations data to the data warehouse and develop a BIT report that provides the parking violations codes and descriptions along with effective dates that can be sent to WSP, similar to the law updates sent for statewide and local criminal and infraction laws.

Proposed Solution

AOC would now need to develop a BIT report which includes the parking violation codes and Jurisdictions that the codes can be cited into, for each court, as well as their effective dates and bail amounts, that can be sent to WSP for uploading into SECTOR. The report will need to be set up to send to WSP on a regular basis, similar to, but separate from, the current statewide and local law table updates for criminal and infraction violations. This report would ONLY include courts that have agreed to accept these parking tickets manually from the LEAs. Courts will need to be added to the report, for inclusion in the regular updates to WSP, as they agree to accept these manually issued parking infractions.

AOC will also need to set up an internal process and a process working with WSP, to confirm that a court is willing to accept the parking tickets issued from SECTOR, filed manually, and get that court added to the regular report, which will allow the officers to begin using the application for parking ticket issuance.

Once the report is sent to WSP and the changes have been made to the SECTOR application for issuing parking tickets, AOC will need to test that the changes work; not only that they don't send these tickets through to ETP but also that only the appropriate laws can be cited within a court's jurisdiction and that the tickets have the appropriate information on them for the courts to be able to enter into the JIS Parking Sub-system. The estimated hours in the analysis include the testing hours for this testing as they will be critical to the success of this change.

Additional Systems Affected
Judicial Information System (JIS)
Communities Impacted
CLJ Judges
CLJ Managers
Confirmation of Endorsing Action Detail
Endorsing Committee
   AOC (endorses for other communities)
Endorser Name:
   Vonnie Diseth
Origination Date:
   06/09/2020
Endorsing Action: Endorsed
Court Level User Group Decision Detail
CLUG Non-JIS
Chair of Group Vonnie Diseth
Date of Decision 06/09/2020
Decision
Decision to Recommend for Approval Unamimously recommended to the approving authority
Priority Processing Status Not Prioritized
Scoring Detail
In making their decision, detailed score values were not provided by Non-JIS.
Implementation Detail  – Superseded
Analysis Date:
Implementation Stage Authorized
Prioritization Option: Non-Prioritized
Comments:

06/11/2020 Authorized by AOC Director.

Implementation Detail
Analysis Date:
Implementation Stage In Progress
Prioritization Option: Non-Prioritized
Comments:

10/12/2020 Project underway.

 

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