Officials reveal the consequences of an outage that released 100 inmates

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Harris County Universal Services is responsible for controlling the system that malfunctioned and has not been able to explain why the malfunction occurred.

The"JWEB" system is used by the district attorney's office, sheriff's office, district clerk, and magistrates. It was shut down in March after a maintenance failure because of an old switch. Harris County Universal Services is responsible for controlling the system and has not been able to explain why the malfunction occurred.

Mark Antill, the IT Director for the Harris County Sheriff's Office, spoke on the aftermath and consequences resulting from the system's failure. All intakes at the Harris County Joint Processing Center were paused, and the sheriff's office was unable to charge inmates because the district attorney's intake system was down.

According to Ogg, the DA's office files 250 to 300 cases per dag. The system failure immediately stopped the intake of those criminal cases. "We can't be responsible or what Universal Services is not accountable for," Ogg said."JWEB governance needs to return to justice system experts, those of us who operate the system, those of us who are lawfully responsible for the data that's integral to that system."

 

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