By C1 Staff
INDIANAPOLIS — A Purdue University professor is being brought on-board by the Marion County Sheriff’s Department in order to improve a system that keeps causing the inadvertent release of inmates.
JC Online reports that Jon Padfield, a professor in the university’s College of Technology, will meet with information technology experts and criminal justice professionals Tuesday to begin discussing improvements needed to the county’s court-processing system.
Marion County Sheriff John Layton has been under fire for erroneous release of a spate of inmates this year.
Padfield said that he along with other experts and representatives from the sheriff’s office and Marion county courts, will look at each individual case of the erroneous release of inmates to determine where in the inmate-processing procedure mistakes have occurred.
“We’ll look at how [the process] works today, and when it doesn’t work, and where it the problem is coming from,” he said.
In June of 2014, Marion County replaced JUSTIS, its 26-year-old court case management system, with the state-mandated Odyssey system.
Officials said Odyssey does not communicate directly with other systems used by law enforcement agencies. The Information Services Agency, an IT consultant, designed a system known as DEXTER to fill the communications gap between the courts and law enforcement agencies.