Pursuant to Sec. 77.031 (e) of the Government Code, JCIT has adopted Technology Standards [pdf] for use in Texas courts. The standards committee of JCIT meets regularly to discuss additions, modifications and deletions from the adopted Technology Standards.
Current Version: Technology Standards v1.1 [pdf] (Adopted July 25, 2012)
Texas Path to NIEM
The Texas Path to NIEM project has been coordinated through the Texas Integrated Justice Information Systems (TIJIS) Steering Committee, a statewide advisory group structured to assist in the coordination of statewide IJIS programs for information sharing. In collaboration with TIJIS, the Department of Public Safety, and the Department of Criminal Justice, the JCIT and the Texas Judicial Council adopted the following statement of policy in the Texas Administrative Code:
1 TAC §177.2 NIEM Conformance
(a) Justice information data exchanges between courts or between a court and OCA shall conform with the IEPDs developed by Texas Path to NIEM.
(b) Justice agencies are encouraged to develop justice information systems whose data exchanges conform with the IEPDs developed by Texas Path to NIEM, and justice information data exchanges between justice agencies or between a court and a justice agency with such capabilities shall conform with those IEPDs.
(c) These standards apply to justice information data exchanges between systems whose development is initiated on or after September 1, 2009.
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Updated: 06-Feb-2013
