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E-1 Introduction This appendix presents the script for the voiceover supporting the Toolkit for Improving Citation and Adjudication Tracking: Interactive Challenges, Strategies & Solutions, illustrated in Appendix D Citation and Adjudication Tracking Overview One of the core traffic safety challenges faced by state highway safety offices and jurisdictions is how to effectively track citations and adjudications from issuance through disposition.
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E-2 Strategies to Improve State Traffic Citation and Adjudication Outcomes in-depth data validation, improvements in process efficiency, and a move toward electronic systems where possible even if this is not end-to-end. On a more structural level, lack of unification can lead to inconsistent citation definitions and codes, data access issues, and other structural issues when court systems and agencies operate under different rules and with different processes.
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Toolkit for Improving Citation and Adjudication Tracking: Voiceover Script E-3 funds. This can also include state-level funding for agencies; in some cases states have purchased driver's license readers for law enforcement, and in others state-level funding has supported an updated court record management system.
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E-4 Strategies to Improve State Traffic Citation and Adjudication Outcomes Identify Stakeholders and Liaisons Related to the previous suggestion of demonstrating benefits to all users, it is important to engage stakeholders and liaisons early in the process of implementing new systems and procedures. Getting buy-in from across the range of involved agencies and personnel will help ease transitions, and liaisons to particular departments can help communicate benefits, provide feedback from those departments on ways to improve procedures, and facilitate training development by focusing on specific needs and opportunities.
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Toolkit for Improving Citation and Adjudication Tracking: Voiceover Script E-5 While there's no simple answer to this challenge, some states reported success in developing a central database in which the back end is designed to support as many interfaces as possible, and working with jurisdictions to connect their data systems via this interface. This will require considerable planning and development work, as well as communication and team-building with local jurisdictions.
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E-6 Strategies to Improve State Traffic Citation and Adjudication Outcomes Further complicating matters, there may also be different vendors and data systems across jurisdictions, particularly if digitization was initially conducted at a jurisdictional level as opposed to a state level. In some cases translating across data systems currently involves digital-paperdigital translation that can introduce further error.
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Toolkit for Improving Citation and Adjudication Tracking: Voiceover Script E-7 epidemiologists who can analyze high-level trends, liaisons who can communicate all aspects of data usage clearly, and local agencies who should be involved in data sharing and communication of findings. The more that individual agencies can see clear benefits from the proper collection and analysis of data, the more willing they may be to support it going forward.
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