Optical Imaging, Inc. in conjunction with BCB Voice Systems, Inc. hasdeveloped an innovative approach to juvenile drug court case management.We have developed a Drug Court Case Management System (DCCMS) that runsover the Internet. We have incorporated digital voice recording that allowsjudge's comments and rulings to be digitally recorded as part of the electroniccase files.

DCCMS is a system for integrating first time offenders back intosociety instead of sending them to jail and further clogging up processingand prison systems. The juvenile signs a contract stipulating that if theyfollow the treatment outlined by the judge at their court hearing, theircharges will be dropped. The treatment of the first time offender ofteninvolves the services of agencies such as a parole board, Salvation Army,and outside treatment providers. After the judge prescribes a treatmentand the offender is assigned to a provider, the provider can dial intoa SQL Server via the Internet and listen to the judge's directions. Theproviders will be able to maintain case information as if they were sittingon the court's local area network. In most cases, this means these agencieswill not have to wait several weeks until they get the official transcriptionfrom the judge. They can begin working the case minutes after the hearingor before they see the offender.
 

Outside agencies will not have to incur additional costs, purchase expensivecommunication equipment or high-speed communication lines. They can usetheir existing Internet provider connection.

A Provider simply logs on to the Internet and accesses the electronicjuvenile case management system. They can begin working their new casesbefore interviewing the offender. The provider will be able to hear thejudge's comments and decisions, review the electronic case file right overthe Internet.

With the combination of a truly web enabled drug court application withvoice recording and playback, DCCMS becomes one of the first applicationsof the millennium to use the Internet as a client-server wide area network.

With one eye on the future and the other on stabletechnology, DCCMS becomes one of the first of the next generation web basedapplications that allows end users to maintain an SQL Server over the internetwithout the use of web pages, HTML script, or sockets. The end user doesnot have to maintain a continuous connection with the server. They canwork off-line or on-line. If a user is working online and the connectionis broken, DCCMS will save your work locally. It will attempt to reestablishyour connection to the server and notify you when the connection is complete.It will then move your work from your local computer to the server andcontinue as if the connection was never broken.

DCCMS uses a browser-based interface for the clientside of the application.  The end user logs on to the Internet andsimply runs the client side of DCCMS.  This will connect them to thedrug court server.

DCCMS is designed to function in an environmentwhere connectivity to the Internet is not always stable. The client sideof DCCMS stabilizes the working environment so that the user experiencesa minimum amount of interruption.  The database engine is designedto manage millions of offenders while the search engine will support thousandsof users.

DCCMS has a clearinghouse option where you canlink multiple counties together to function as one. For instance, the stateof Florida can install DCCMS into every county and link all the databasestogether to form one statewide database.  A county can do a statewidesearch on an offender and determine if he or she has ever been througha drug court program within the state. In addition, DCCMS can link clearinghousesfrom state to state to form a national juvenile drug court database.

DCCMS additionally supports document imaging overthe Internet with high bandwidth connections.  You will be ableto scan and store documents on the server and retrieve them over the Internet.

DCCMS uses a browser-based interface for the client side of the application.  The end user logs on to the Internet and simply runs the client side of DCCMS.  This will connect them to the drug court server.

DCCMS is designed to function in an environment where connectivity to the Internet is not always stable.  The client side of DCCMS stabilizes the working environment so that the user experiences a minimum amount of interruption.  The database engine is designed to manage millions of offenders while the search engine will support thousands of users.

DCCMS has a clearinghouse option where you can link multiple counties together to function as one.   For instance, the state of Florida can install DCCMS into every county and link all the databases together to form one statewide database.  A county can do a statewide search on an offender and determine if he or she has ever been through a drug court program within the state.  In addition, DCCMS can link clearinghouses from state to state to form a national juvenile drug court database.

DCCMS additionally supports document imaging over the Internet with high bandwidth connections.  You will be able to scan and store documents on the server and retrieve them over the Internet.