Arms Policy Board Regular Meeting
Regular MeetingUrbana, IL · August 18, 2016
Minutes
Area-wide Records Management System
ARMS Policy Board Meeting Minutes
DATE: August 18, 2016
3:30 PM
nd
PLACE: City of Urbana – 2 Floor Conference Room
400 South Vine Street, Urbana, IL
MEMBERS PRESENT: Chief Jeff Christensen, UIPD
Chief Anthony Cobb, CPD
Lt. Jeff Wooten, RPD
Chief Pat Connolly, UPD
Sheriff Dan Walsh, CCSO
MEMBERS ABSENT: None
STAFF PRESENT: Sanford Hess, Urbana IT
Dave Wakefield, Urbana IT
OTHERS PRESENT: None
1. Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 3:33 p.m.
2. Additions to the Agenda
There were none.
3. Approval of Minutes
Motion to approve the agenda by Chief Cobb and seconded by Chief Christensen.
The minutes passed unanimously.
4. Public Input
There was none.
5. Staff Report
eCitations
o Sanford gave an update that the deadline for the eCitations RFQ was moved
back a week to August 26.
o Sanford reported that NTAs and Crash Reporting were re-affirmed as key
requirements.
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Development Update
o Dave completed out three smaller enhancements.
o The SAO inquiry was delivered so that SAO can see which Field Reports (and
Supplementals) exist for an incident.
o Field Reporting Permissions is in programming now.
Chief Christensen asked about the Use of Force entry. If a UIPD officer
recorded the Use of Force on a report in a different jurisdiction, then how
will it show up?
Sanford said it will show up in the officer’s “home” Jurisdiction, due
to the Badge Number’s Jurisdiction.
Chief Connolly asked about having the “Assist other Agency” report
associated with the Person.
Dave described that the entry of the “Assist other Agency” could be
associated with the person, but it would require a second step.
The current process shows you only your own Jurisdiction’s
contacts.
Documentation update:
o The Documentation writer is rejoining the ARMS team.
o Her first task will be to update the Field Reporting User Help.
6. Reports of committees and officers.
There were no committee reports.
7. Unfinished business.
Proposed ARMS Security Policy
o Sanford walked through the draft version that was sent in the meeting packet.
o Decisions were made:
The ARMS team will be the primary contact for creating user IDs.
Password resets will not be decentralized to the Government Agencies.
o Chief Cobb asked about tracking “who looked at what records” in ARMS.
Sanford said that it would be added to the “To Do” list.
Sanford announced that the CJIS text will soon pop-up when people sign on to ARMS.
o Later, a setting could be put in place to not display the CJIS warning if
jurisdictions already have that as part of their network sign on.
Other agencies coming on to ARMS.
o Sanford said that this will probably occur more as eCitations are rolled out.
8. New Business
A discussion occurred regarding capturing critical information related to people, e.g.
medical conditions.
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o ARMS updates were discussed. This information would be entered as “F10”
Special Alerts.
o Separately, there’s a need to communicate this information to HR for employees.
That is outside of ARMS.
o There was a discussion about identifying common “Names” records based on a
match of name and DOB, and identifying Special Alerts across all of them.
Sanford suggested that the ARMS User Group should have more seats, and have them
assigned by role in addition to jurisdictions.
o Sanford proposed 2 seats per jurisdiction.
o Sanford proposed 5 Seats reserved by role: records, patrol officer, patrol
sergeant, detective, and a read-only agency representative.
9. Adjournment.
Chief Cobb made a motion to adjourn, seconded by Lieutenant Wooten and approved
unanimously.
The meeting adjourned at 4:42 PM.
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Agenda
AREA-WIDE RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ARMS)
POLICY BOARD
NOTICE OF MEETING
DATE: August 18, 2016
TIME: 3:30 PM
LOCATION: 400 S. Vine St.
Executive Conference Room
Those wishing to attend should dial 128 on the phone located next
to the 2nd floor security door.
A G E N D A
1. Call to Order and Roll Call
2. Additions to the Agenda
3. Approval of Minutes of Previous Meeting: May 19, 2016.
4. Public Input
5. Staff Report
• eCitations
o Update on Procurement.
• Development update
o Top 3 requests were programmed (414, 324, and 415)
o Request by SAO for additional access to Field Report lists.
o Field Reporting Permissions in progress (cross-jurisdiction
reports)
• Documentation writer
6. Reports of committees and officers.
7. Unfinished business.
• ARMS Security Policy
o CJIS text on sign-on
• Tabled discussion – reaching out to smaller police agencies.
8. New business.
• Revising the makeup of the ARMS User Group.
9. Adjournment.
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