The Marshall County Community Corrections Department is hoping to get with the times and change their case management service provider.
The state of Indiana is moving to a system called “Odyssey” that will allow information sharing across the state’s courts. That largely renders Marshall County’s current provider CSI obsolete. Community Corrections Executive Director Ward Byers says the new software will likely prove easier to use.
“They do have plans to make this a web-based system over the course of the next year so hopefully they’ll get that done and we’ll be able to move everything out from upstairs and it’ll just be web-based and that’ll make things easier for all of us,” says Byers.
Marshall County’s contract with CSI is scheduled to come to an end on December 31st, allowing the county to begin using the Odyssey system at the start of the New Year.
By signing a purchase agreement for the new software this year, it will allow the Community Corrections department an opportunity to import their cases to the new system before putting it into operation.
The new provider, Paperless Business Solutions otherwise referred to as Corrisoft, has offices in Rochester and intends to charge the county $13-thousand for the initial purchase along with $250 per month in maintenance fees.
Byers says there are 82 counties utilizing the new software provider.
“We have a great deal of weekly, quarterly, and annual reporting that we must do to the Department of Corrections,” says Byers. “PBS keeps up with that with software updates and such.”
Marshall County requested additional funds from the state to help with the transition through an available DOC grant. The department has also been working closely with its IT professionals to ensure no additional hardware is needed. Byers says they should be ready to operate following installation.
A master agreement was approved Monday by the County Commissioners, unanimously.
