The State Controller
is North Carolina’s
chief fiscal officer. The
Office of the State
Controller ensures the
financial integrity of
the State by providing
accounting disbursing,
payroll, internal
control and financial
reporting systems that
serve state agencies,
employees and the
public and maximizing
financial return
through its statewide
cash management
plan. The OSC issues
numerous financial
reports including:
Financial Highlights,
General Fund Monthly
Financial Report, IT
Expenditures Report,
Statewide Accounts
Receivable Report, the
State’s Comprehensive
Annual Financial
Report ( CAFR) as well
as the short, easy-to-
read version of the
CAFR known as the
"popular” report.
David McCoy, State Controller
Spring 2009
Criminal Justice Data Integration Pilot Kicks Off
The criminal justice data integration pilot
project began the internal testing phase
May 1.
The pilot is integrating data found within the
state’s various criminal justice applications
and will provide up-to-date criminal
information in a centralized location via a
secure connection for use by state and local
government criminal justice professionals.
The pilot, referred to as CJLEADS
(Criminal Justice Law Enforcement
Automated Data Services), will establish the
framework for the statewide integration of
criminal justice data.
“CJLEADS will be another tool for
criminal justice professionals to use
in making quicker and more effective
decisions,” said State Controller David McCoy.
“Information about an offender’s involvement in
the criminal justice system is now maintained in
a number of databases located in many different
agencies. To get a comprehensive view of an
offender, criminal justice professionals currently
must check multiple sources. CJLEADS, when
fully implemented, will allow law enforcement,
magistrates, prosecutors, judges and other
criminal justice professionals to make better
infonned decisions more quickly since the
information will be in one place.”
CJLEADS has two primary objectives. First, it
will provide a comprehensive criminal history
of an offender through a single application
in an easy to use format. This will help law
enforcement officers, magistrates, prosecutors,
judges and other criminal justice professionals
who rely on the information in making decisions
that impact public safety. Second, CJLEADS will
provide an “offender watch” capability to alert
criminal justice professionals when an offender
has a change in status within the criminal justice
system so that they may take appropriate action.
Initially, CJLEADS will provide integrated
court, warrant, incarceration and probation
information. During the next few months,
OSC and its partners will conduct a series of
Interagency Leadership Council members and other
guests gather for a demonstration of the Wake
County Criminal Justice Data Integration pilot project.
tests on CJLEADS to include: validation of
the integration of data, system and role-based
security, application objectives, business rules,
and ease of use. When CJLEADS has met the
acceptance test criteria defined by the internal
state project team, the pilot will be made
available to a select set of Wake County users for
testing in normal work situations.
While CJLEADS is being tested, additional data
such as juvenile court, sex offender, concealed
handgun permits, local jail booking, wildlife,
DMV, federal and other states’ information
will continue to be designed and developed for
incorporation into the pilot.
Session Law 2(X)8- 107, H.B. 2436 recognized
the need for state-of-the-art integrated criminal
justice information and directed the Office of
the State Controller, among others, to develop
and implement a statewide criminal justice data
integration pilot program for Wake County.
Project team members from numerous agencies
have been engaged for months in project
development activities with SAS Institute,
Inc., the vendor selected to design, build and
implement the pilot.
For more information about CJLEADS, to
include FAQs and system screenshots, visit
www.osc.nc.gov/cjleads/cjleads.html.
