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| County solves computer glitch, clears jail backlog |
| By Dallas Morning News |
| Published: 02/14/2005 |
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Dallas County (Texas) officials said last Monday that they have finally eliminated a huge backlog of arrestees who had been waiting to get booked into the county's jail and had been delayed by a series of major problems with a new computer system. Although the jail backlog has been cleared up, officials were still working last Monday to get vital reports to the county courts that the new system had a problem producing. And efforts were also under way to help the district attorney's office start putting its data into the new system, said J. Allen Clemson, administrator of the county Commissioners Court. When the computer system went live two weeks ago, a series of problems forced jail workers to book inmates with pen and paper for a while, and a huge backlog developed. Once booked in, the inmates also waited unusually long to get scheduled before a magistrate. Many who were able to post bail or who were supposed to leave jail were stuck there for days because the new system was not able to show their location in the jail. Jail employees worked a double shift Feb. 4 into the next day to clear the backlog - and were accompanied until 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, by Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Sgt. Don Peritz, the Sheriff's Department spokesman, said workers were finally able to get the jail population down from a peak of 7,900 at one point two weeks ago to a more normal number of about 7,000 by last Monday. Sheriff Valdez sent a memo to staff members last Monday praising them for working through the problems. Sgt. Peritz also praised another unlikely group for assistance during the nightmare - the inmates waiting to get booked in. "There were some complainers, but for the most part, they were really cooperative," he said. |
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