Information Sharing Governance Committee
The Information Sharing Governance Committee assists in the work of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
Overview
Vision
Build and sustain collaborative technology and process governance framework for sharing criminal justice and public health data and information.
Mission
Design a collaborative criminal justice and public health governance framework to accomplish data and information sharing in a secure, effective, efficient, simple and practical manner to support the administration of justice, public and officer safety, and public policy decisions across key decision points with local, state, and national agencies.
Committee Members
- Richard Sykora (Committee Chair) (CJCC Council Member)
Managing Attorney, Associate City Counselor, Municipal Prosecutor - Sherri Schaefer (Vice-Chair)
Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit – Court Systems Development Manager - Col. Eric Larson
City’s Police Division - Officer - Col. Renee Kriesmann
City's Police Division - Jerry Baumgartner
City’s Police Division’s IT Department - Newton McCoy (CJCC Council Member)
Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court – Administrative Judge of the Municipal Division - Diarra Cross-Davis (CJCC Council Member)
Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court – Clerk of the Municipal Division - Lt. Michael Gamache (CJCC Council Member)
Sheriff’s Office – Deputy - Thomas Kloeppinger
Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court Administrator – Clerk of Court - Tammy Ross
City Corrections – Data Center Manager - OPEN
City Corrections – Deputy Commissioner of Corrections - David Edwards
State of Missouri Department of Corrections – Director of Research and Planning - Steve Capazzi
Circuit Attorney’s Office – Chief Warrant Officer - OPEN
Circuit Attorney’s Office IT Section - Amanda Sodomka
Court Administrator
Meeting Materials
Upcoming Events
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Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025
Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Meeting
Office of the Mayor |
Meeting |
2:00 PM
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025
CJCC Information Sharing Governance Committee Meeting
Office of the Mayor |
Meeting |
2:00 PM
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025
CJCC Alternatives to Incarceration Committee Meeting
Office of the Mayor |
Meeting |
2:00 PM
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2025
Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Meeting
Office of the Mayor |
Meeting |
2:00 PM
Current Objectives
- Conduct a criminal justice data/information sharing assessment.
- Create a City of St. Louis centric high-level criminal justice business process diagram.
- Develop an information sharing strategic plan including metrics to measure outcomes.
- Participate in the development of the Intergovernmental Information Sharing Agreement.
- Ensure the accuracy and completeness of state warrants to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP).
- Begin reporting municipal warrants to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP).
- Evaluate and implement the most effective way receive to Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) traffic citations.
- Improve how nolle prosequi are managed across the different criminal justice agencies.
- Evaluate and find solutions to improve electronic sharing of criminal history information across the different criminal justice agencies.
Anticipated Benefits
- More collaborative, data-driven, evidence-based decision-making and practices in the local criminal justice system.
- Improved decision-making by availability of accurate justice information when it is needed.
- Increase accuracy of defendant/offender identification.
- Reduction of manual data entry and related errors in redundant data by decreasing or eliminating paper-based processing.
- Elimination of barriers of time and space – “24/7” access.
- Greater efficiency in business processes.
- Enhanced public safety and reduced victimization by making timely, accurate, and complete justice information available to all agencies and decision-makers in the system.
- Enhanced public safety leads to enhanced economic and cultural quality of life.
- Improved transparency and public access to appropriate data.
- Increased public trust and confidence in the justice system and agencies.
- Increased Return on Investment and reinvest savings back to justice programs.
Values and Guiding Principles
- Be responsive to the needs of participating agencies, business partners and the community.
- Encourage the spirit of teamwork: “everyone needs to contribute and have a willingness to share and work together.”
- Collaborate to solve problems; maintain openness and flexibility.
- Respect the independence and interrelationships among participants.
- Maximize tax payer dollars: show results and return on investment or gain efficiencies and save money in the overall system of justice.
Goals
- To improve the effectiveness of the local criminal justice system through data and information sharing.
- Ensure immediate availability of complete, accurate and timely data and information to form solid decision-making, reporting, analysis and research.
- To achieve measurable outcomes in all our endeavors.
- Enable the effective flow of data and information among participating agencies and external stakeholders for their immediate benefit and use.
- Reduce duplicate data entry.
- Safeguard sensitive information, i.e., Personal Identifiable Information and Criminal Justice Information.
- Leverage and enhance the existing criminal justice information systems to facilitate data and information sharing.
- Promote the practice and adoption of national justice information sharing standards and industry best practices.