The state’s Justice Information Sharing Council has a new lead agency, the New Mexico Sentencing Commission, which will distribute the JISC’s state appropriation this fiscal year. The JISC maintains an integrated system to support the efficient sharing and use of critical justice information at the municipal, county and state levels to help ensure public safety.
The JISC consolidated “offender look-up” enables justice personnel to obtain court, prison, domestic violence, DWI and probation status from one screen. This system makes New Mexico a national leader in single Web portal access to multiple criminal justice databases.
The JISC has members from the New Mexico Sentencing Commission – established in early 2003 at the University of New Mexico Institute for Social Research – Administrative Office of the Courts, Administrative Office of District Attorneys, Department of Public Safety, Corrections Department and Public Defender Departments. Advisory agencies are the Children, Youth & Families Department, and American Indian Development Associates, representing the views of several tribes in New Mexico.
For more information, visit http://www.nmjustice.net.
Contact: Laurie Mellas Ramirez, (505) 277-5915