New Badger TraCS Features Overview: Fall 2023

In addition to our regular updates to further streamline Badger TraCS to be as user-friendly, efficient, and intuitive as possible, Badger TraCS has implemented several significant improvements for the Fall 2023 Pack Update. We have highlighted some of the changes below:

New Status: Hold

An additional secondary status of ‘Hold’ is available in the Forms Manager. This ‘Hold’ status is used to ensure forms are not transmitted before a certain action is performed. There is an additional table that is required to be populated first, so your agency has more control over this new feature. This is what you will see in the grid with the Hold Options specific to your agency.

Open

• For More information on the Hold status see: Form Hold

• System Admin Documentation: Table: Hold Reasons

Upgrade of User Attributes:

2 new user attributes are being added. All agency groups on all forms will be modified to include these attributes. We also fixed a bug with the agency group that would fill in blank attributes with secondary users that modified the form. Agency Group

• Officer Phone Number: 2 reports

  • Ambulance Inspection

  • Fatal Notification

• Officer Fax Number:

  • Ambulance Inspection

New Fields on Current Forms

• Alcohol Form: Alcohol

  • Fields Added: Signature and Date Signed fields for the Informing the Accused Reports

• Contact Summary form: Contact Summary

  • Versioned up the form removing the Unit and Individual from Common information and cleaned up the issue caused by them.

• Fatal Supplement form: Fatal Supplement

  • Field Added: Underride/Override field

• UFAD form: UFAD

  • Field Added: “Were charges filed against the subject by a prosecutor?”

New Reports Added

• Fatal Notification:

  • How to Send an Fatal Notification Email

  • Crash Report: Fatal Notification Report

Updated Parking Ticket Fee Feature

• The parking ticket fee function was upgraded to change how agencies manage the overdue fees associated with Parking Tickets. Overdue Fees can be calculated in multiple ways so that agencies can do more than just add.

  • Addition

    • Can make multiple adds to the current Parking fee, defaults to what is in the distribution but can be overridden. Agencies can set the default in a distribution.

  • Multiplication

    • Only multiplies the deposit/bail amount. Defaults to 2 but can be changed.

  • Manual Entry

    • If the parking fee is completely messed up, then can make a modification. Will not allow lower than the Deposit/Bail amount.

• For more information see Parking Citations | Managing Overdue Fees