But except for DLN, that information is already routinely available to the general public- from Judici!  So, with the AO's blessing, we will now have to ensure that all four items are routinely not available to the general public. 

That said, we know that these data items are critical to subscribing users such as Probation and background check agencies.  And we also know that the Illinois Supreme Court's rules have never required that this data be hidden.  So with the possible exception of addresses in OP, D, and F cases (which we'll leave up to the Clerk), these items will be "subscriber-only"- automatically available to all subscribers.

The next Exhibit D you see will make this clear, and give you the choice on addresses in OP, D and F cases.

2. PC JIMS PROBATION EXTENDED ACCESS INTEGRATION

As you probably know, your annual Judici payment includes free subscriptions to the "multi-court" side of Judici (https://www.judici.com/service/pricing.jsp?service_id=1), for organizations such as Probation and law enforcement.  Subscriptions are valuable because they let users search all Judici courts simultaneously.  But subscriptions originally showed only public information.  So we wound up with courts asking if the subscription user IDs acquired by their P.O.s and judges could be given access to specific non-public information.  To do this, we launched our optional Extended Access service. 

If the Clerk chooses to purchase Extended Access to address this need, they have to do some setup work:

- on their Exhibit D, the Clerk has to define "security groups" (e.g. "Juvenile judges") and decide exactly what non-public data restrictions to override for that group

- then they have to enter the user IDs of all of subscribers belonging to the security group

Whether due to the setup effort required of the Clerk, or the their unwillingness to pay for yet another service benefitting other offices, Extended Access has not been widely adopted.

Meanwhile, with or without Extended Access, P.O.s found their free use of the Judici.com website to be less than ideal- they sometimes have to "cut and paste" data from the website into their probation software.  So the option of "wiring" our existing Extended Access service into PC JIMS Probation arose-  using PCJIMS Probation do the same multi-court, "public and non-public data" searches as Extended Access. 

But the process would be different in three key ways, all desireable from the Clerk's perspective:

- to eliminate the need for Clerks to set up Security Groups, the non-public court information available from PC JIMS Probation will be a simple, fixed set of data which most (if not all) Clerks already allow Probation users to see from JIMS menus - juvenile case info and open warrants.

- each copy of PC JIMS Probation will automatically have Extended Access.  Since we know that the user is a legitimate Probation user, the Clerk doesn't have to put them in a security group. 

- since the PC JIMS Probation access is built on top of our Extended Access service, it is perfectly reasonable for us to bill Probation for this service, although other staff (e.g. judges) could benefit as well- as long as the Clerk signs the necessary paperwork and does the aforementioned setup for their judges.

So the Clerk can get Probation a limited set of non-public data without doing any setup, and someone else gets the bill.  Sounds great, right?  But there is one open issue- we were hoping that this automatic access would be granted to all users of PC JIMS Probation, whether they are in your county or not.  Kayte raised this issue at our JIMS User Group Meeting at the recent IACC conference, and many Clerks said essentially, "Sounds great, but the 'cross-county' approach makes this a decision for my judge, not me". 

So we ask that sometime in the next couple of weeks,  you get your judge to fill out the following very short survey:

We will then factor this answer into the way we design this service.

Your input and support is always appreciated.  Judici would not be in 47 counties without it.