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CriMNet: A timeline
December 27, 2006
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(Source: Minnesota Department of Public Safety)
| Mid-1990s |
Work begins on improving criminal justice information collection and sharing.
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| 2000 |
Katie's Law enacted after Katie Poirier, 19, a Moose Lake gas station attendant, was abducted and killed this same year. The law provided additional resources for law enforcement to access sex offender registrations electronically, and enhance ability to capture fingerprints and photographs electronically.
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| 2000 |
Department of Corrections designs and rolls out Statewide Supervision System, providing access to probation, detention, and supervision data from agencies statewide.
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| 2000 |
Began rollout of electronic fingerprint capture devices (called Livescans). Equipment provided to all counties by 2004.
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| 2001 |
Began rollout of Minnesota Repository of Arrest Photographs (MRAP) and related hardware and equipment (rollout continued into 2002).
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| 2001 | Finalized deployment of an upgraded, Internet Protocol-based Criminal Justice Datacommunications Network. |
| 2001 |
Rollout of the Predatory Offender Registration Web application to law enforcement.
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| 2002 |
Designed and developed technology to connect statewide databases to allow criminal justice agencies to search for information.
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| 2003 |
Rolled out search application to pilot agencies, including Carver County. (Minnesota Court Information System was also tested in Carver County.)
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| 2003 |
Criminal and Juvenile Justice Information Policy Group completed comprehensive strategic plan for CriMNet. CriMNet restructured as branch of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and shifts focus from technology to how information is managed.
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| 2003 |
Judicial branch rolls out new court information system (MNCIS) to first county. Final implementation has been delayed several times and is now scheduled for the end of 2007.
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| 2004 |
CriMNet Program takes over maintenance of the state's criminal justice statute table, providing resources to update new statutes after each legislative session.
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| 2004 |
Legislative auditor releases study of CriMNet, recommending that certain formal project management disciplines be initiated. Project management and other permanent staff were hired throughout 2004, which led to more detailed project status reporting, financial reporting, and a formalized communications plan.
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| 2004 |
Policy Group approves second round of implementation grants for local government agencies -- $2.2 million (federal funds).
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| 2004 |
Integrated Search Services application rolled out formally to all criminal justice agencies statewide, providing access to statewide court data, Minnesota Repository of Arrest Photos, Predatory Offender Registration, and Statewide Supervision System (including prison data).
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| 2005 |
Targeted misdemeanor data, back to 2002, added to criminal history files, but remains incomplete.
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| 2005 |
CriMNet completes technology capability assessment of law enforcement agencies and their systems.
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| 2005 |
Minnesota Criminal Justice Statute Service, a dynamic database version of the statute table, rolled out for use statewide.
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| 2005 |
Warrants, wanted persons and vehicles, orders for protection, Minnesota criminal history, driver's license information and driver's record information are all made available through the Integrated Search Services. To date, there are more than 3,400 registered users.
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| 2005 |
By year's end, nearly all (98 percent) of fingerprints submitted by criminal justice agencies come in to the BCA electronically, due in large part to bringing Hennepin and St. Louis counties online.
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| 2005 |
New version of Statewide Supervision System rolled out to agencies statewide.
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| 2005 |
CriMNet conducts extensive security inventory and assessment.
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| 2006 |
System developed to define business and technical standards for criminal justice system.
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| 2006 |
Federal grant funds of $493,000 approved for connecting agencies to the Comprehensive Incident-Based Reporting System (CIBRS), made available by the BCA to law enforcement in 2006. Only one police department is connected at this point.
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| 2006 |
Background Check and Expungement Delivery Team of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Information Task Force provides comprehensive look at the issues and some recommendations for standardizing the system. Further study will be conducted in 2007.
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| 2006 |
Contract executed and work begun on the Name-Event Index Service (NEIS), which will serve as a "card catalog" of criminal justice records.
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| 2006 |
Work begins defining requirements for an electronic charging (e-Charging) application, to move reports and information electronically from police to prosecutors to the courts in a secure environment.
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