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Joe
Uecker
State
Representative
09/14/05
Ohio
Incident Based Reporting System (OIBRS)
Summer
is over as evidenced by the kids returning to school. In
like fashion, so is the Legislature returning this week,
just without the yellow buses. We have a large number of
bills to get working on that I suspect will take the rest
of the next two years to get through. I doubt we will get
through them all… and that is probably a good thing.
With
this week and the painful reminders of National Security,
I thought I would mention one bill, House Bill 4, that we
passed that seeks to remedy some of the problems with the
various law enforcement agencies and their information
sharing.
The
breakthroughs in technology over the past 50 years have
changed the way we do business, live our lives and spend
time with our families. With the advent of the computer,
Internet, wireless and satellite technology, we have far
exceeded the dreams of our parent's generation.
As
private industry has embraced the use of high-tech
equipment to improve products, so does government strive
to increase efficiency and effectiveness through the use
of new and better equipment. House Bill 4, aims to
accomplish that goal. The measure, which passed the House
and Senate overwhelmingly, creates the Ohio Incident Based
Reporting System (OIBRS) to act as a clearinghouse for law
enforcement data collection and analysis of criminal
activities across Ohio and the nation.
The
bill creates a process by which local law enforcement
agencies will be able to share and receive information
with the FBI and other local law enforcement agencies
across Ohio. The data collected by OIBRS will be used to
analyze and map criminal patterns and trends to assist
local law enforcement officials in their efforts to fight
crime.
The
measure had been named priority legislation in the Ohio
House because it aimed to increase the amount of criminal
justice dollars that Ohio will receive in future years.
Currently, receipt of Federal Criminal Justice Funds is
based equally upon population and crime reporting
statistics. As a result of under-reporting, Ohio has not
received its maximum potential in federal dollars. This
measure aims to change that trend.
House
members also focused their efforts to ensure the new
system did not create additional reporting for law
enforcement officers. The legislation conforms current
reporting requirements of the Ohio Local Law Enforcement
Information Sharing Network to the OIBRS so that officers
do not spend extra time on paperwork and reporting.
House
Bill 4 was signed by the governor on June 14, 2005 and
will go into effect on September 12, 2005.
Joe
Uecker
State
Representative
Ohio’s
66 District
Representing
Batavia, Goshen, Miami and Union Townships as well as the
Cities of Loveland and Milford and the Villages of Batavia
and Amelia.(614)
466-8134
District
Office (513)-248-2565
Website:
www.JoeUecker.com
Email:
Joe@JoeUecker.com |
