By Jonah Owen Lamb : sfstandard – excerpt
Inmates languishing in their cells, cases not being reviewed or charged, warrants gone missing.
These are just some of the problems caused by the bungled replacement of a decades-old software San Francisco’s criminal justice system uses to communicate, according to documents obtained by The Standard and sources familiar with the situation.
The new network was supposed to bring a system that relied on an antiquated Atari-era program into the 21st century. Instead, it has caused chaos and could lead to the violation of constitutional rights—and potentially endanger police officers, according to people with knowledge of the issue.
“This new system is a mess,” San Francisco prosecutor Ryan Khojasteh said. “It’s a complete upending [of] how we do our job.”
The biggest issue, he said, is getting timely access to information prosecutors need to handle cases and manage their workload…(more)
How is it that San Francisco cannot find a competent computer system that functions in Silicon Valley. Perhaps we should look at a city that has a functioning system and hire that contractor. There must be an existing system somewhere they works.