The Senate Judiciary committee heard HB 1299 sponsored by Sen. Glick concerning an electronic criminal case management system. This bill provides that the Office of Judicial Administration shall develop and implement a standard protocol to electronically send or receive at least one time each week criminal case information between the administrator’s court case management system and an electronic repository to determine if the individual is a veteran in the U.S. Department of Defense database of individuals with prior active military service and in the national guard registries for use by county prosecutors, a veterans’ court, and other entities to address the needs of veterans in the court system.
The bill was amended by consent to provide an information sharing agreement between the Office of Judicial Administration and the office of United States Veterans Affairs. Testifying in support was Amy Levander on behalf of the Indiana Supreme Court; the Reserve Officers Association; the Indiana Public Defender Council, and the Veterans Coalition of Indiana. The amended bill passed 9-0.
Read the bill at: http://www.iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/house/1299.