The Texas Path to NIEM project has been coordinated through the Texas Integrated Justice Information Systems (TIJIS) Steering Committee, a statewide advisory group structured to assist in the coordination of statewide IJIS programs for information sharing. In collaboration with TIJIS, the Department of Public Safety, and the Department of Criminal Justice, the JCIT and the Texas Judicial Council adopted the following statement of policy in the Texas Administrative Code:
1 TAC ยง177.2 NIEM Conformance
(a) Justice information data exchanges between courts or between a court and OCA shall conform with the IEPDs developed by Texas Path to NIEM.
(b) Justice agencies are encouraged to develop justice information systems whose data exchanges conform with the IEPDs developed by Texas Path to NIEM, and justice information data exchanges between justice agencies or between a court and a justice agency with such capabilities shall conform with those IEPDs.
(c) These standards apply to justice information data exchanges between systems whose development is initiated on or after September 1, 2009.
JCIT also collaborated with the Judicial Council in development of proposed changes to the official data collection reports used to summarize court activity in the state, as well as proposed cover sheets to be completed with each filed petition, for example in a civil case in district court.
Updated: 25-Jun-2009
