Introduction
The Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services (CJLEADS) is a secure portal that provides up-to-date information about offenders in a centralized location via a secure connection for use by state and local government criminal justice professionals.
The service was created to replace the manual and labor-intensive process of looking up historical criminal data from multiple systems and places, thus reducing the risk of overlooking critical data and improving access to information law enforcement agencies need.
Background
Session Law 2008-107, House Bill 2436 recognized the urgent need for state-of-the-art integrated criminal justice information and mandated the development and implementation of a framework for sharing of critical information.
The Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, the Department of Justice, the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Department of Correction, the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, and local law enforcement agencies shall fully cooperate with the Department of Information Technology and the State Chief Information Officer, to identify the informational needs, develop a plan of action, provide access to data, and implement secure integrated applications for information sharing of crimi nal justice and corrections data.
The CJLEADS project is a joint effort, managed by the Department of Information Technology, with participation from more than 100 state and 20 SAS Institute, Inc. project team members. The project team has partnered with local subject matter experts to understand industry best practices in criminal justice information sharing and to further the efforts of the project.
Purpose of CJLEADS
CJLEADS is an offender-based application developed to meet two objectives.
- First, the system provides a comprehensive view of an offender's North Carolina criminal information in a single web-based application.
- Second, the system allows users to develop a watch list of persons of interest and will notify the users when that person of interest has a change in status such as an arrest, pending court date, or release from custody.
CJLEADS has users in all 100 counties across the state and training is available for criminal justice and law enforcement officials who operate in North Carolina.
How to Request Access to CJLEADS
Our Partners
- Criminal Justice Advisory Committee
- Criminal Justice Information Network
- Duke University
- Governor’s Crime Commission
- NC Administrative Office of the Courts
- NC Department of Information Technology
- NC Department of Justice
- NC Department of Public Safety
- NC Department of Transportation - Division of Motor Vehicles
- NC State Bureau of Investigation
- NC Wildlife Resources Commission
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- SAS Institute, Inc.
- Wake County Courts
- Wake County Sheriff’s Office
Feedback
We want to know how CJLEADS has helped you do your job and find out if there are ways we can improve CJLEADS to better assist you in the future. Please provide your success stories and/or suggestions.