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Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia

The Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia was a DC government research unit whose Director, Joan E. Jacoby, co-led the 1969 team that commissioned and designed the PROMIS software under a $60,000 LEAA grant, and later administered the National Center for Prosecution Management.

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The Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia was a small governmental research and analysis unit operating within the DC government. It had no federal counterpart and appears to have operated primarily to support criminal justice planning and prosecution management for the District.

Role in PROMIS Development

In 1969, the office administered the $60,000 LEAA grant (70-DF-047) to Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co that funded the design of the original Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS) for the DC U.S. Attorney's Office. Joan E. Jacoby, then Director of the office, co-directed the design team alongside Charles R. Work (Deputy Chief of the Superior Court Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office), with Bill Hamilton of Peat Marwick serving as project manager. The resulting system was deployed January 1, 1971.1

Jacoby remained Director of the office at least through 1972, overseeing early PROMIS operations and accompanying research. She subsequently became the first Executive Director of the National Center for Prosecution Management, a nonprofit established by the Department of Justice with LEAA funding to provide technical assistance to prosecutors nationwide.2

Sources

  1. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report. House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992. ↩
  2. Office of Justice Programs, National Criminal Justice Reference Service. "The Prosecutor's Charging Decision: A Policy Perspective." OJP Publication No. 35832. ojp.gov. ↩

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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia was the original client for the PROMIS case management software, commissioning the system in 1969 under U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Flannery and deploying it January 1, 1971; the EOUSA later signed the March 1982 implementation contract with INSLAW that became the central dispute in the PROMIS Software Scandal.
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viaCharles R. Work · Thomas A. Flannery · Joan E. Jacoby · Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co · U.S. Attorney's office

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