Given Sheriff Woody's commitment to leveraging technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Richmond City
Sheriff's Office (RCSO), the Information Technology office is actively seeking new ways to enhance technological functions, while
finding alternative funding sources to make this possible.
Recent Department of Criminal Justice Services grants have allowed the Richmond City Jail's Inmate systems to be integrated with the Richmond Police Department and other surrounding public safety partners.
"After 9/11 we saw how vital it is to have interoperability for communications and technology systems. Now, a key component in
Richmond's public safety equation is in place and we can be more prepared if and when the need arises."
Sheriff Woody continued,
"We commit over 20,000 people into the Richmond City Jail, and we collect data from thousands more with whom we come into contact
each year. Now, this vast amount of information will be available to partnering public safety agencies, as theirs will be to us."
Agency Integration
Once fully implemented, the new software system will allow seamless data sharing and records access among the following groups:
- Richmond City Sheriff's Office
- Richmond Police Department
- Commonwealth Attorney's Office
- State Probation and Parole Office - VA Department of Corrections
System Functions
The $200,000 grant for the Criminal Justice System Records Improvement Program will enable the Richmond City Jail to collect and
maintain data on both jail residents and those coming into contact with the Sheriff's Office. This new system will not only improve
record keeping, it will also improve the safety of jail staff, jail residents and the public.
- Bar-coding jail resident information
- Tracking jail resident mass movement
- Identifying trends and patterns among the jail resident population
- Allowing immediate access to medical history information and data
- Instant notification of an jail resident's location
