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Annual Audit Report for 1984-1985: Illinois' Computerized Criminal History System

NCJ Number
110439
Date Published
1985
Length
64 pages
Annotation
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Autority's 1984 audit addresses several aspects of the Computerized Criminal History (CCH) system data base, including the impact of partially automated records, correspondence of CCH-complete records with those of other information systems, and data security.
Abstract
A major finding was the pervasive lack of documentation of policies and procedures. CCH-incomplete records continued to represent more than 50 percent of the entire CCH data base. In addition, production of manual transcripts represented a small, but consistent percentage of responses to requests for information. Missing court dispositions continued to be a problem. While no serious breach of security has occurred, the audit revealed shortcomings in access control and building security.