Over the years the Jefferson County Management Information Systems (MIS) department has developed an extensive network of systems and programs that extend across virtually all facets of County Government. Major application areas include County Jail Operations, Warrant Division Bookkeeping, Criminal District Courts, Civil District Courts, County Courts, the District Clerk's Office, the County Clerk's Office, Environmental Control, and the District Attorney's Office. As well, Juvenile and Adult Probation Services have extensive information systems as do the Child Support Office, Family Courts, and the Domestic Relations Office. The Justice of the Peace system covers virtually every aspect of those offices. Additional applications include Voter Registration, Absentee Voters, the Jury Wheel, the Crime Laboratory, and the Constables system.

In addition to the ongoing maintenance of existing applications in the previously mentioned areas, MIS staff supports several outside packages (County Clerk's Land Indexing and Document Imaging system, District Clerk Document Imaging system, Sheriff's Office Prisoner Imaging & Tracking system, District Court E-Filing, H.T.E. Payroll and Budget Accounts, Child Support Dial-Up, Attorney General's Office Ledger Transmissions) and is responsible for day to day functioning of over 1,000 system, network, and stand alone terminals, PCs, printers, modems, controllers, routers, switches, etc.

The MIS department is also responsible for the actual printing of Jury Checks, Payroll Checks, Accounts Payable Checks, Jury Summonses, and weekly accounting reports for Commissioner's Court, the County Clerk and the County Treasurer. Current and planned major areas of new or upgraded applications consist of Constable Bookkeeping, Airport Management & Inventory system, increased interfacing with the E-Filing system.

The MIS department supports inter-agency applications such as State of Texas Live-Scan, the DPS Failure to Appear program, and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission's Caseworker 4 system and a data base for the Attorney General's Office pertaining to Child Support payments and disbursements. Another of our interagency efforts is the real time data sharing provided for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies through broad band data connections and a variety of web interfaces.

At this time, our major programming project is the creation of a realtime document imaging system. Upon completion this system will encompass the District Attorney's Office; the District Clerks Office; all Criminal, Civil, and Family District Courts; and the Juvenile Probation Department. As well, aspects of the County Clerk and County Court at Law Offices will also be included in the project.

Another significant project is the installation of the counties new VoIP phone system that is currently being coordinated through the MIS department. The day to day operation and maintenance needs of this system will then be assumed by the MIS department.

Jefferson County MIS is responsible for the design, authorship and administration of the County’s Web Site. Features include real time updates for most District and County Court docketing. The county's web page includes the daily update and presentation of online Property Tax information with payment options. Online payment payment options also extend to Justice of the Peace Court Costs and Fines.

Last Update: 5/14/2008