Cuyahoga Regional Information Systems
1255 Euclid Avenue, Suite 310
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Mission Statement: To provide accurate information to the law enforcement and criminal justice communities of Northeast Ohio via a computer network in a timely and efficient manner and to field personnel, aiding them in the decision making process. To provide agency management with information that will assist them in determining how well criminal justice operations are meeting public and organizational goals.
In 1973, The Cuyahoga County Police Chief’s Association, long hampered by the lack of adequate communications throughout the sixty (60) separate departments went to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council looking for a solution. It was decide that if each department was willing to forego each of their smaller LEAA grants for that year and combine their resources and issue a much larger grant then a link between the County’s sixty departments could be made. With this larger grant CRIS was born. The Cuyahoga Regional Information System is a computer-based Criminal Justice Information System designed for use by Criminal Justice Agencies in and surrounding Cuyahoga County. The CRIS computer system contains a communications network and central repository of criminal justice information. It provides access to statewide (LEADS) and national (NCIC) criminal justice information on driver’s licenses, motor vehicles, stolen/recovered property, wanted and missing persons, and criminal records. By linking criminal justice data throughout Northeast Ohio, the CRIS provides a readily accessible source of standardized information on agency activity, custodial status, and the judicial process that provides timely information to field personnel to aid them in making decisions, and streamlines record keeping.
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