In the Fall of 2024 the UFAD form will be versioned up.

Noted fields/segments were requested to be added to the UFAD form by law enforcement agencies via the TraCS Forms Advisory Committee (TraCS FAC).  None of the below fields will be required on the UFAD form and none of the data indicated in them is collected by the DOJ.

These new fields have been added by law enforcement request to allow for agencies to better utilize the UFAD form as an in-house use-of-force tracking tool, for those agencies that utilize the form to track all use-of-force incidents within their agency, not just reportable incidents.

• Electronic Control Device (ECD) Reporting Group

• Location of Force Used Diagram

• Was the Subject Suicidal?

• Subject's Treatment (used to indicate if the subject accepted/declined/etc. medical treatment after the incident)

• Empty Hand Techniques Used on Subject

• Was Subject Arrested or Transported to Jail?

You can always check the "Field Help" in the upper-left of TraCS when highlighting a field in the UFAD form to check if it is optional. If it is, you will see this:
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Open

Remember, since any non-reportable UFAD incident you file is not sent to the state, in any month that your agency has no  reportable incidents, a zero report must be transmitted to the state instead

ALL CHANGES ARE TENATIVE UNTIL THE RELEASE

3 fields will be updated with pending added as an option.

New Pending Options

Previously, some DOJ-required fields within the TraCS UFAD form did not have an explicit "Pending" option to utilize when a field was unable to be completed due to its information being unavailable due to a pending investigation. The proper way to handle this was to leave the field blank to indicate pending.

With the Fall TraCS Pack, many new explicit "Pending" options will be added to fields where they were not previously available, making it easier to indicate when information for a certain field is pending further investigation.

As a reminder, all fields with "Pending Further Investigation" are treated as placeholders, and are expected to be updated as soon as the surrounding investigation(s) conclude.

Also remember that forms with Pending values will not pass final validation, as a form cannot be finalized with temporary placeholder values such as "Pending".

4 fields will be updated with pending added as an option.

New Pending Options

Previously, some DOJ-required fields within the TraCS UFAD form did not have an explicit "Pending" option to utilize when a field was unable to be completed due to its information being unavailable due to a pending investigation. The proper way to handle this was to leave the field blank to indicate pending.

With the Fall TraCS Pack, many new explicit "Pending" options will be added to fields where they were not previously available, making it easier to indicate when information for a certain field is pending further investigation.

As a reminder, all fields with "Pending Further Investigation" are treated as placeholders, and are expected to be updated as soon as the surrounding investigation(s) conclude.

Also remember that forms with Pending values will not pass final validation, as a form cannot be finalized with temporary placeholder values such as "Pending".

Electronic Control Device (ECD) Reporting Group Coming in Fall 2024

TraCS will be adding an ECD segment to the UFAD form that will appear any time that the Force Type or Force Type Lesser fields in the Officer segment indicate "ECD/Taser".

This optional segment will allow agencies to track more details on ECD usage/deployment by their officers if desired:

NOTE the following fields are being added in Fall 2024.

Updates requested by law enforcement/not collected by DOJ:

NOTE: The following fields/segments were requested to be added to the UFAD form by law enforcement agencies via the TraCS Forms Advisory Committee (TraCS FAC).  None of the below fields will be required on the UFAD form and none of the data indicated in them is collected by the DOJ.

These new fields have been added by law enforcement request to allow for agencies to better utilize the UFAD form as an in-house use-of-force tracking tool, for those agencies that utilize the form to track all use-of-force incidents within their agency, not just reportable incidents.

You can always check the "Field Help" in the upper-left of TraCS when highlighting a field in the UFAD form to check if it is optional. If it is, you will see this:
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Open

Remember, since any non-reportable UFAD incident you file is not sent to the state, in any month that your agency has no  reportable incidents, a zero report must be transmitted to the state instead.

Subject’s Treatment – only turned on if subject had injuries

• NONE NEEDED

• SUBJECT REFUSED TREATMENT

• TREATED AT SCENE

• TREATED AT HOSPITAL

• ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL

• DECEASED

When did Injury Occur – only turned on if subject had injuries with ECD

• PRIOR TO DEPLOYMENT OF CEW

• AFTER DEPLOYMENT OF CEW

Empty Hand Techniques – Multi List

• COME ALONG

• HUG YOURSELF

• HYPOGLOSSAL

• LOWER YOUR CENTER

• MANDIBULAR ANGLE

• OTHER/DYNAMIC APPLICATION

• PULL IN-PUSH DOWN

• REACTION FRONT KICK

• REACTION HAND FOREARM STRIKE

• REACTION HAND STRIKE

• REACTION KNEE STRIKE

• SECURE THE HEAD

• STRONG ANGLE KICK

• STRONG ANGLE KNEE STRIKE

• STRONG HAND FOREARM STRIKE

• STRONG HAND STRIKE

• VERTICAL STUNS

Location of Force Used – Drawing tool with suggestions for codes.

• P-Pain Compliance Point

• B-Bean Bag Round

• G-Gunshot Location

• D-Drive Stun

• S-OC Spray Area

• K-K9 Bite Area

• E-ECD Probe

• I-Impact Weapon Point

• O-Other(Bite/Stab/Etc.)

Suicidal?

• Yes or no flag

Arrested Flag or Transported to Jail?

• Yes or no flag

NOTE the following fields are getting the pending value added to the choices.

New Pending Options

Previously, some DOJ-required fields within the TraCS UFAD form did not have an explicit "Pending" option to utilize when a field was unable to be completed due to its information being unavailable due to a pending investigation. The proper way to handle this was to leave the field blank to indicate pending.

With the Fall TraCS Pack, many new explicit "Pending" options will be added to fields where they were not previously available, making it easier to indicate when information for a certain field is pending further investigation.

As a reminder, all fields with "Pending Further Investigation" are treated as placeholders, and are expected to be updated as soon as the surrounding investigation(s) conclude.

Also remember that forms with Pending values will not pass final validation, as a form cannot be finalized with temporary placeholder values such as "Pending".

• Armed?

• Known Impairment?

• Did the Subject resist the officer(s) or attempt to use a weapon against the officer(s)?

NOTE: New Field--Were charges Filed Against the Subject by a Prosecutor? Fall 2023

NOTE: the ORI Number field is being added in the Fall of 2024, this is a request of the DOJ so it will be included with transmission.

The new ORI number field will appear in the "Other Involved Agencies" segment any time that an agency has a reportable incident where they indicate that there were other involved agencies that also had officers that utilized reportable force:
This new field will auto-populate an ORI for the agency selected under the "Agency Name" field, allowing for our database to identify which Other Involved Agency is being indicated even when potential naming updates/changes occur within TraCS.

There is no procedural change your agency needs to make to utilize this new field properly, as it should work automatically.