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Criminal Justice IT programme seeks suppliers
News The UK government's £1.2bn criminal justice IT programme is looking for suppliers to deliver software and data hosting services for its main infrastructure. The Criminal Justice Exchange will allow information sharing between the police, Crown...
[July 12, 2004, 15:15]
Criminal justice IT contracts up for grabs
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs is set to replace its main IT contracts covering key projects in the modernisation of the criminal justice system, it has emerged. Under the new programme, these suppliers could be replaced in order to...
[January 19, 2005, 15:50]
Experts question plans to ban hate email
News The government wants to change the Criminal Justice and Police Bill to ban hate emails and hate text messages. The Criminal Justice and Police Bill is currently going through Parliament and Thursday's changes are part of a package of regulations...
[February 23, 2001, 9:12]
Progress Software Case Study: Tarrant County
White Papers For Tarrant County, Texas, real-time availability of information is crucial to expediting and improving its criminal justice system. Tarrant County, Texas, needed to provide critical criminal justice information to law enforcement and justice...
[December 25, 2008, 0:00]
UK police upgrade network
News Criminal justice agencies and 250,000 users across the UK's police forces are to receive an updated national network for the secure exchange of data across organisational boundaries, it was announced on Thursday.
[November 4, 2004, 14:53]
Police, courts to save millions via streamlining tech
News UK courts and police forces could save tens of millions of pounds thanks to technology to aimed at streamlining the criminal justice system. The CJ Know-How system should help deliver "real savings" to the billions of pounds it costs to administer...
[July 18, 2008, 10:49]
Lords backs amendment to data-loss law
News Peers supported an amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill, which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it would consider its position on making data loss a...
[April 29, 2008, 8:10]
Home Office to block Lib Dem MP's entrapment proposal
News The Home Office has said it will block entrapment proposals tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill that would grant police new powers to crack down on Internet paedophiles. Laws allowing police officers to "entrap" Net...
[February 20, 2001, 6:10]
UK court hearings to be tracked by Web, text
News A new IT network linking 101 Crown Courts and criminal justice agencies is to be introduced nationally allowing information from trial hearings to be accessible online, the Department for Constitutional Affairs announced on Wednesday.
[December 16, 2004, 13:40]
Government to ban 'hate emails'
News The government will table an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Police Bill on Thursday that will, if successful, ban hate emails and hate text messages. The Criminal Justice and Police Bill is currently going through parliament and Thursday's...
[February 22, 2001, 7:10]
Tony Blair promises IT upgrade for justice system
News In a wide-ranging speech on Tuesday, which promised to modernise many aspects of criminal justice, he twice referred to IT initiatives within the courts and police force. The time has come to drag the criminal justice system from the nineteenth...
[June 18, 2002, 16:46]
Global Justice XML: Prosecutor Exchange Committee & Global Justice XML Data Model
White Papers These two agencies are making the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) more accessible to criminal justice agencies. This white paper will introduce the Prosecutor Exchange Committee and explain what GJXDM is and what it can do to help the...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Government urged to be bold with IT projects
News Industry experts have warned that the government needs to take more risks with technology if it is to succeed in major modernisation projects such as the NHS and criminal justice. But we are seeing changes in the public sector with people like...
[October 29, 2003, 16:35]
Microsoft has new UK head of government
News Microsoft has merged two parts of its business focused on the public sector and appointed a director of government to oversee the company's focus on areas such as criminal justice and defence. Harrop will also have responsibility for the criminal...
[March 12, 2007, 12:13]
DoJ may regret battling Google over porn probe
News But the Justice Department's defence of the Child Online Protection Act in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union is a civil dispute, not a criminal investigation. This case is unusual because it was brought by the Justice...
[February 22, 2006, 12:30]
Kumar indicted as CA gets charges deferred
News The 10-count indictments against Kumar and Richards were unsealed on Wednesday as part of the Justice Department's criminal case against the individuals at CA. Computer Associates International's former chief executive was indicted on Wednesday on...
[September 23, 2004, 12:55]
Music pirate faces prison term
News The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that it had accepted a guilty plea in a criminal copyright case involving the former leader of a Net music piracy group called the Apocalypse Crew. Shumaker's case, part of the long-running Operation...
[August 22, 2003, 10:45]
Blair promises broadband for every school
News Speaking at the e-Summit in London on Tuesday, the prime minister explained that the initiative is part of a major project to bring high-speed Internet access to the UK's public sector, across the education, health and criminal justice sectors.
[November 19, 2002, 13:56]
Should We Object to the Recent Tide of Data Legislation?
Blog This comes on the back of proposals late last month making it a criminal offence to carelessly lose or release personal data, an amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill. Clearly society needs the ability to properly investigate...
[May 22, 2008, 9:12]
Media lobbying 'watered down' data-misuse laws
News Thomas was referring to lobbying from major newspaper groups over clause 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which he persuaded the government to include with a view to strengthening penalties for those who gain illegal access to data...
[April 23, 2008, 10:30]
