A system that improves tracking and monitoring of criminals is going statewide.
In 2009, state leaders began testing the Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services (CJLEADS), a system that merges records from different agencies into a single database and includes court, warrant, probation and parole information.
At the time, the system was implemented through a pilot program in Wake County. Since then, officials say the database has proven to be a valuable crime-fighting tool. The CJLEADS system also contains an alert system that can track individual offenders.
NC State Controller David McCoy announced Monday that the state would begin expanding the database across the state, beginning with Durham, Orange, Alamance and Chatham Counties.
“The tragic murders of Eve Carson and Abhijit Mahato highlighted the need to have ready access to as much information about offenders as possible in one place so criminal justice professionals can better protect the public,” said State Controller David McCoy in a press release. “A positive outcome to these tragic events is that this new state-of-the-art database called CJLEADS will make sure offenders won’t fall through the cracks so easily and may one day help prevent similar senseless murders. It is only fitting and proper that we begin the statewide expansion of CJLEADS in the counties Eve Carson and Abhijit Mahato called home for a while.”
State Officials say they plan to continue rolling out the database over the next 18 months. Training for the new system begins in January, 2011. CJLEADS will not be made available to the public.
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