New TraCS Features Overview: Fall 2019

In addition to our regular updates to further streamline Badger TraCS to be as user-friendly, efficient, and intuitive as possible, we’ve made some significant improvements for the Fall 2019 Pack Update. We’ve highlighted some of the biggest changes below:

• Amending Citations after Issuance

  • Supervisor Override after issuance to be replaced with Amended Citation

    • New access right

    • Switch to turn on for agency

  • See Citation Amend Access Level FAQ for more information

• Parking Tickets Phase 2:

  • First Notice Report

  • Final Notice Report

  • 2 new analysis reports

  • Prepped for integration with DMV suspend registration system.

  • See FAQ for more information

• New Citation Ribbon:

  • Void and Court Disposition Status moved from Home to Menu Ribbon.

  • Parking ticket buttons placed on this menu ribbon

• Crash Form Fixes: Several modifications and updates to the DT4000 Crash Form were made. Some of these changes include:

  • Diagram size increased to 2 MB.

  • New Databars for Manner of Collision, Point of Contact, Vehicle Damage and Seat Position

  • New role created for runaway vehicles: Pedestrian Non-Occupant

  • Updated rules for On Emergency crashes

• Use of Force and Arrest Related Death (UFAD):

  • The FBI fully launched their new national use-of-force data collection effort as part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program in January 2019. The national program is focused on identifying incidents that result in death or serious bodily injury of a person, or when an officer discharges their firearm at or in the direction of a person. In order to comply with this new collection effort, the Wisconsin Department of Justice created a workgroup of Wisconsin law enforcement agencies, led by the BJIA, to develop a Wisconsin use-of-force data collection program that would fulfill federal requirements and make recommendations to collect other data valuable in understanding use-of-force incidents in Wisconsin. In addition, this workgroup was tasked with defining what will qualify as use-of-force in Wisconsin, determining the data elements and types of force that will be collected, and establishing a process for the reporting of the data.

  • The Wisconsin workgroup finalized recommendations regarding the Wisconsin approach to this data collection effort in early 2019. The BJIA then took these recommendations, in a partnership with the State Patrol and their Traffic and Criminal Software (TraCS) program, to develop a data reporting form that satisfied reporting requirements for the FBI’s Use-of-Force program. The Wisconsin program also addressed federal reporting requirements under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, which requires collection on arrest-related deaths, as well as deaths occurring in jails and prisons. The development of the TraCS form occurred throughout 2019 and will be rolled out statewide in the fourth quarter of 2019. The state will also develop an additional data collection mechanism, including a process for electronic database submission, for agencies unable to utilize the TraCS program or for agencies that would prefer to submit the data electronically from their existing Records Management System (RMS) or other systems for use-of-force data collection. The Wisconsin DOJ will then submit use-of-force data collected through the state program on behalf of law enforcement agencies to meet federal reporting expectations.

  • The data collected through this effort are critical to supporting law enforcement training needs in Wisconsin and to promote transparency in sharing this data with stakeholders, researchers, policy makers, the media and the community by providing a more complete picture of the nature and context of use-of-force incidents.

• Updated Current Reports:

  • 3 Citation Letters:

    • Parent

    • Cover

    • Court Date Correction

  • Alcohol

    • Administrative Review/Notice of Intent to Suspend

    • OWI Affidavit

    • OWI Warrant

    • Informing the Accused

    • Notice of Intent to Revoke

    • Removed all redacted reports: Redacting them doesn’t make sense as they would be mostly blank reports.

  • Citizen Contact

  • Contact Summary

  • Driver Condition

  • Equipment

  • NTC Citations: Added Vin to all reports.

  • Redacted Warning Report

• Analysis Reports

  • New reports:

    • Parking Ticket Status Listing

    • Transmission Log Listing

  • Modified:

    • Overdue Parking Ticket Listing

Improved Search Filtering: To filter data easier there are many different filter equations such as Equal, Contains, Is Like, Begin and ends with, Greater or Less than, ……….

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• Transmission: This will be the last year mandatory transmission instructions will be added. The TraCS vendor modified the transmission files to be tiered so all state level instructions will be in the state file and RMS instructions will be in the agency file. Only Optional RMS transmission instructions will be required.

• Export Form Log: When viewing the Form Log, a new button will be visible to export log to excel.

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