Ohio FY24 NCHIPSF

Under this award, the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) and The Ohio Supreme Court requests funds to ensure that accurate records are available for use by law enforcement, prosecutors, courts and to protect public safety and national security. In 2023, BCI and Attorney General’s staff analyzed 441,524 electronic disposition submissions from 194 Ohio courts. BCI found an unacceptably high fatal error rate in the electronic submission of disposition information from courts. Several of the categories of errors are being addressed through changes made by Ohio’s CCH vendor. However, the vast majority of the errors require local action to fix. Fortunately, almost all of the fatal errors not involving the lack of associated fingerprints with an arrest are technical fixes. BCI is requesting funds to provide sub-grants to at least 10 court systems that would fund technical improvements to, or subsidize the replacement of, local case management systems that are resulting in high volumes of rejected dispositions. BCI will provide at least five of those sub-grants to local court systems who have the highest rejection rates of electronic submissions and up to five of those sub-grants to local court systems who have the highest overall rejection rates.