Dallas Jail Computer Problems
County database gets post-mortem
Dallas: Report finds system for jail, courts lacked blueprint
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, October 13, 2005
By JAMES M. O'NEILL / The Dallas Morning News
Dallas County and the company that built its new computer system made serious blunders when conceiving, designing and implementing the system, whose launch caused chaos in county courts and left dozens of people in jail too long, a new study concluded.
The 300-page report, produced by Microsoft, points out major problems with the system and suggests some key repairs.
Microsoft said the county's most egregious mistake was failing to develop a clear and specified blueprint for what kind of computer system it wanted and how it would function
Dallas: Report finds system for jail, courts lacked blueprint
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, October 13, 2005
By JAMES M. O'NEILL / The Dallas Morning News
Dallas County and the company that built its new computer system made serious blunders when conceiving, designing and implementing the system, whose launch caused chaos in county courts and left dozens of people in jail too long, a new study concluded.
The 300-page report, produced by Microsoft, points out major problems with the system and suggests some key repairs.
Microsoft said the county's most egregious mistake was failing to develop a clear and specified blueprint for what kind of computer system it wanted and how it would function