Badger TraCS Guides
FAC Meeting Notes 2021
Charter
Monday, December 9, 2019
4:05 PM
<<FAC_Charter.pdf>>
February Agenda
Monday, January 4, 2021
8:15 AM
Forms Advisory Committee Agenda
TEAMS Virtual Meeting
February 24, 2021
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
9:00 AM | Welcome |
| Housekeeping |
| Introductions
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9:10 AM | Charter Review
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9:20 AM | TraCS Survey Results
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9:35 AM | User Conference
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10: 00 AM | Race Field |
Race Field:
Change the Dropdown text descriptions - race codes would stay the same as well as the data going to state agencies and RMS's
Current Race Text in TraCS | Current Race Code in TraCS | ACLU Requested Text Change | DMV's Current Description of Race Attributes |
Asian | A | Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander | Asian or Pacific Islanders (A) – Persons identifying with the peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent or the Pacific Islands. For example, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands and Samoa. |
Black | B | Black/African American | Black (not of Hispanic origin) (B) – Persons descended from any of the black racial groups of Africa. |
Hispanic | H | Hispanic | Hispanic (H) – Persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin. |
Indian | I | American Indian or Alaskan Native | Indian (I) – American Indian or Alaskan Native-Persons with origins of the original peoples of North America or who maintain cultural identification through tribal association or community recognition. |
White | W | White | White (not of Hispanic origin) (W). |
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| Unknown |
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Questions: Would the ACLU accept DMV's definitions for the attributes?
Unknown - is this needed? DMV doesn't require this field, Milwaukee could have any blanks changed to Unknown in their database.
Should we update the F2 Helps for all the Race fields in all forms?
Here are a couple examples of TraCS F2 Help for Race:
‘ The Race of the person involved in the crash’
‘Select the defendant’s race’.
Review how it would look on forms
Review how it would look on printed forms - Office/Public
10:30 AM | Break
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10:45 AM | Update on Incident / Evidence Forms
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12:00 PM | Lunch
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12:45 PM | Misdemeanor Citation Form |
1:00 PM | Referrals
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2:45 PM | Select future meeting dates (May, Aug, Nov)
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3:00 PM | Adjourn |
February Notes
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
8:41 AM
Name | Agency | Attended |
Brent Knutson | Cashton Police Department | y |
Daniel Kawcznski | Marquette University Police Department | y |
Cody Gulbrand | Algoma Police Department | n |
Chad Repinski | Waupaca County Sheriff's Office | y |
Paul Houx | Clear Lake Police Department | y |
Kevin Bauer | LaCrosse County Sheriff's Office | y |
Jeff Vavera | Milwaukee Police Department | y |
Daniel Heimann | Ho-chunk Nation PD | n |
Mark Fetzer | Wisconsin State Patrol | y |
Travis Lauer | Wisconsin State Patrol | y |
Kevin Barman | Natural Resources | N |
Darlene Schwartz | Department of Transportation/DSP | y |
Brian Neil | Department of Transportation/DSP | y |
Geri Polster | Department of Transportation/DSP | y |
Sharon Olson | Department of Transportation/DMV | Y |
Michael Satteson | Department of Transportation/DSP | y |
Derek Veitenheimer | Department of Justice | y |
Matt Drought |
| Y |
Tejal Thakker |
| Y |
Brenda Ray |
| Y |
Tyler Renk |
| Y |
Roll call taken.
Introductions made.
Brian reviewed the FAC Charter
Survey Results
175 Agencies responded
Survey is used for planning the direction of TraCS
About half of the responding agencies are still using Access
Plans
Questions or comments?
2021 User Conference
Still unknown what the guidelines will be for gathering.
We will be virtual again this year.
We will be contacting the hotel about moving the date to 2022.
Will setup like a in person conference
All sessions would be recorded
Will start to use the Breakout Room feature
Have a general session then go to breakout rooms
Sessions
Hosted Environment
Web services
Overview of NIBRS Incident form
Refresher: Using the Citation form
Advanced Features
Basic Adhoc Reporting and other types of Searches
Training
All sessions would be recorded
Move to second day
Office Management
TraCS Administrator
Moving form Access to SQL
Advanced Adhoc Reporting
How to complete the NIBRS Incident form
Possible session ideas
Crash form
UFAD
Evidence Form
General refresher: setting up batch transmissions, parking tickets, other Features that makes TraCS more user friendly
Comments and Questions
Derek: overall it looks great. UFAD overview and training would be beneficial. Have added 260 agencies since the last time we presented.
Paul: in person would be better if the climate changes as networking with others would be possible in person.
Is it better to have the conference a whole day verses spread out over 3 days.
Derek: Like the idea of having it spread out over a few days.
Mike: if any presentation have a "water cooler" feature to allow side conversions. Another idea would be to have presenters available for general questions a day later.
Do we need to have a Q & A session?
Would be for any questions not just conference presentations
Support Hour?
Hosted Environment Update
TEG is working on TraCS for Web
Login available on any device
This will be a few years down the road.
Baseline will be available in July 2021
We will not be releasing this baseline in the fall as there is not enough time to do thorough testing.
Migration takes a lot of time to handle.
Help desk staff is doing this on top of other duties.
We are doing about 3 agencies a week.
We will not get everyone over by the end of the year.
Issue
Download of tables and RMS was not working.
Currently testing and hope to release later today
Crash form Area of Damage
Currently testing and hope to release soon
Pack release
Next pack may be in July
Then the Fall pack
Working on single file release with the update server
Internship
We will be hiring an intern this year to help with the migrations
Race
Milwaukee and ACLU compromise
Jeff:
Under a pseudo consent decree
ACLU definitions for races
Not sure where they found these
Review of Race table
Most TraCS forms have the race field.
Printed form
What text should be printed?
F2 Help
Should we add the DMV description to the help files?
Unknown
Jeff: Unknown is not necessary for TraCS, but just for their no contact form.
We will not be creating a U for unknown. Agencies would have to add something on the back end.
Discussion
Brenda: Change to description is not an issue, as the Code is what gets passed to state agencies.
Mike: The ACLU description for A is more restrictive
Chad: I don't have any initial concerns to descriptions and I like the F2 idea of adding description to assist officers. It would assist the officers on patrol.
Mike: Are the codes taken from the DL?
Up until a few years ago race was mandated. It is no longer a required field. Race can be left blank, as it is self reported.
Jeff: Could go back to ACLU about changing the Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
Mike: There is a push to have race included
Paul: Would rather have just a letter code
Kevin Bauer: So if you are transmitting your wis license info from your external search does it change the race or do you manually have to change the code since dmv doesn't use the same codes?
The codes that come in from search would be applied.
Kevin Bauer: As long as we don't change the code, everything should be fine
Dar: Mike do you want to have the text printed?
Mike: I would prefer to have the text printed on the crash form.
Dar: Showed the email for UCR values for Race that has A - Asian, B - Black, I - American Indian / Alaskan Native, P - Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, U - Unknown, W - White
Travis: in a perfect world MACH and eTime would bring over the codes that we need. Is there a way to add what the Incident form has an make a conversion? We should start to prepare and look at this?
Dar: DMV has indicated that they will never change any race codes unless forced by Feds.
Travis: may need to add additional fields on forms, what external search returns and the UCR race. Then convert back to the standard code for transmission.
Dar: Any volunteers to write up definitions and send around for comments.
Mike S.
Check for ALCU / Feds for their definitions. Derek will check.
Form review
ELCI: forms shows the text, reports show codes only
Crash: form shows code, printed shows the text
Warning: Form shows text, printed shows the code
Decisions
Add DMV Descriptions to F2 help files.
Change the dropdown descriptions to ACLU
Chad - Yes
Brente - Yes
Paul - I guess OK
Brenda _ Yes
Kevin Bauer - Yes
Travis - Yes
Jeff - Obviously, yes for us. And I can check in and get back to you as to whether the ACLU has any objection to adding Asian along with the Native Hawaiian and PI
Daniel - yes, maybe look into what will be the definition for Asian
Mike - I'm good with a change and support unified definitions and F2 help across tracs
Break - 11:04
Update on Incident / Evidence forms
History
Started in June 2019 with the creation of a workgroup
Worked with DOJ and DAIT to create a field listing.
Viewed forms that Iowa had created in TraCS
Created the validation rules
Still a work in progress
Form design was done by the FAC members
Phase I release in Fall 2020
DA Transmission
Need to contact DAIT before being allowed to transmit
Added attachments
Basic property form
Have received positive feed back from those that are using it.
Phase 11 - Fall 2021
Add NIBRS complies
Transmission to DOJ
Updating Property form
Will contain evidence as well
Supplemental form
Contains additional attachments and / or narratives
Demo
Making minor changes to become NIBRS compliant
No Report for month
New field for Total Property Loss
New field Cargo Theft
Removed the citation number field
Property Evidence form
Summary group review
Found in Vehicle field
If Yes, then a vehicle group opens
Still working on a field of the dropdown list tables.
Individual group
Chain of Custody
Working on getting a popup box to make changes instead of making the change on the form
Disposition
Used when property is disposed of.
We don't believe that all the work will be completed by this fall. Some will be pushed off until Phase III in the Fall of 2022
Blood Draw Search Warrant (3333)
Issue with Aurora
Need name of hospital on the warrant.
Add drop box to add hospital name
Issue with refusal
Under section 3 of warrant.
OWI Warrant - Approved
Jeremy Krusemark - Burlington PD - He discussed his concerns and suggested changes.
This verbiage is the same as what Milwaukee county uses
Option 1: Have dropdown fields that select the different versions
Option 2: Have two versions of the OWI Warrant
Old and new
Decision: OPTION 2 was selected
Issues
3608 accepted
3614 declined training issue
3616 accepted
3626 accepted
3880 accepted supervisor or system admin might not work depending upon environment
3 is already there
Next Meeting Dates
May 19 - Wednesday
Aug 18 - Wednesday
Nov 3 - Wednesday
May Agenda
Monday, April 26, 2021
9:03 AM
Forms Advisory Committee Agenda
TEAMS Virtual Meeting
May 19, 2021
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
9:00 AM | Welcome |
| Housekeeping |
9:05 AM | Follow up from February meeting |
9:10 AM | TraCS Staffing level update |
9:20 AM | 'Add New' verses Replicate |
9:35 AM | TLT Zoom |
9:55 AM | Crash topics |
10:30 AM | Break |
10:45 AM | F2 Help Project |
11:00 AM | User Conference |
11:30 AM | Pack update and schedule |
11:45 AM | Testing volunteers |
Noon | Referrals |
12:15 PM | Other Topics advanced by the group |
| Adjourn |
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May Notes
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
2:23 PM
Name | Agency | Attended |
Brent Knutson | Cashton Police Department | No |
Daniel Kawcznski | Marquette University Police Department | Yes |
Cody Gulbrand | Algoma Police Department | Y |
Chad Repinski | Waupaca County Sheriff's Office | Y |
Paul Houx | Clear Lake Police Department | No |
Kevin Bauer | LaCrosse County Sheriff's Office | Y |
Jeff Vavera | Milwaukee Police Department | No |
Daniel Heimann | Ho-chunk Nation PD | No |
Mark Fetzer | Wisconsin State Patrol | Y |
Travis Lauer | Wisconsin State Patrol | No |
Kevin Barman | Natural Resources | Y |
Darlene Schwartz | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y |
Brian Neil | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y |
Geri Polster | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y |
Sharon Olson | Department of Transportation/DMV | No |
Michael Satteson | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y |
Derek Veitenheimer | Department of Justice | No |
Matt Drought | Milwaukee Police Department | No |
Tejal Thakker | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y |
Brenda Ray | DA-IT | Y |
Tyler Renk | Department of Transportation/DMV | No |
Alex Herrera | Natural Resources | Yes |
Follow up Feb
Race fields updated go in May Pack
F2 Help also updated
Reports updated
Gave Demo
Blood draw warrant
Start working on soon
Staffing Level (Dar)
BHTE 200 agencies want to migrate
Pilot complete
Started running into issues after the pilot.
Packs has various concerning bugs
Backlog of calls
Multiple calls causing larger backlog.
Last month cut back on migration
Alex left in the middle of this.
DSP hiring freeze though fiscal year until July 1st.
Waiting
We did get a summer intern.
Working on some of the manual work for BTHE migration
Dennis and Dave can handle the more complex calls
Starts next week.
Dar taking calls schedule time to call back.
Eliminate 2 or 3 calls per person
Intern also take calls and set up appointments.
Next month or 2
'Add New' verses Replicate
Shows document
Replicate Citation
All fields except statutes
Asks to copy plaintiff
Add New Citation
Location
Violation
Asks to copy Plaintiff
Agency space
DSP is not using Add New as it brings over all citations that may or may not be given to another person
i.e. speeding and seatbelt
Would like to have the option to bring over different groups just like the plaintiff section.
Kevin Bauer: I haven't noticed but we don't use add new other than house parties
Cody Gulbrand: I think the only time I've used add new is adding an ELCI to a Crash. I don't think a lot of the agencies in Kew Co use add new off the top of my head
Chad Repinski: i'v used add new for the house party i.e. 20 underage alcohol consumption and i've used add new for add an elci to a crash like Cody mentioned. I have tried on a stop such as state patrol and had to issue a passenger a citation from scratch.
Decision:
TraCS will investigate this and will be discussed at the next FAC meeting.
It would be good to not have all the violations come over.
We may be sending out a survey to FAC.
Could have the option of multiple add new types.
TLT
Starts at level 15
Need level 17 to locate
Cannot agency assign
Would like to open at level 17 so they can just click locate (Mark) and
Chad agrees with Mark
Cody agrees with Mark
Tejal likes the current level 17 location is accurate.
Mike --Intent was the zoom level get the complexity of the location.
Would like hand on officer testing.
Could we do differences between forms
Replicating from one to the other.
[9:52 AM] Cody Gulbrand (Guest)
I agree with Mark's idea of just having it zoom in, I believe everyone in this area is GPS'd. I'm all for making it easier for guys on the road.
[10:04 AM] Kevin Bauer
I agree with open at 17
[10:04 AM] Cody Gulbrand (Guest)
I agree with Mark, its coming down to a training issue with officers knowing how to correctly locate their forms moreso than anything
Decision: Open at level 17 and locate at level 17
Crash topics (Mike)
Crash records in similar to TraCS and are low on Staff.
Getting 2020 data to the Feds
No new feature requests to discuss
Kevin
Do not deal with bike or pedestrian crashes.
Got a call. Reviewing to
Pulling out of parking lot bike gets hit when on a sidewalk. Is it private property?
Mike -- right of way of a roadway includes driveway not a private property crash.
Review documentation for training
Do they provide adequate guidance for these types of crashes.?
F2 Help Project (Dar and Mike)
We got questions on Do you have a blue book? We just stated that in the F2 Help
They don't like having to open up crash form to see the F2 Help
Attorneys
Analysists
Asked for federal funding to do this
Dave Harvey officers have lite duty because they cannot get out on the road.
Try to create a pdf https://masscrashreportmanual.com/
Adding F2 Help on a form by form basis.
Do not have all the pieces.
Also not high priority.
Help identify missing F2 Helps
Next meeting
FAC is the forms advisor of some forms
Warning
Case summary
User Conference(Dar)
This year's conference will be one day, in person.
October 27th, Wednesday.
Aiming for 250 participants
3 sessions this year
BadgerTraCS Hosted Environment
Crash Form - Best Practices
Tech Talk - Updating the Fall Pack
Overview of WIBRS Incident Form
Using the Search Feature and Basic Adhoc Reporting - May change to Refresher on TraCS Features
Web Services - What can it do for you?
Refresher: Using the Citation Forms
Advanced Features
Lunch topic - Racine PD cyberattack
Questions:
If changed to Refresher on TraCS Features, how would that be differentiated from the Advanced Features session?
May have to list out what is included in each.
Set them up for users/office (Refresher) and IT (Advanced features)
[11:03 AM] Cody Gulbrand (Guest)
I like that idea
Should Racine PD be contacted for lunch topic.
[11:05 AM] Alex Herrera (Guest)
Yes I think the Racine session during lunch would be hugely useful; a lot of agencies liked hearing about a major issue from another agency.
[11:05 AM] Cody Gulbrand (Guest)
I think reaching out to Racine would be good if they could talk about it. I think those kind of cyber attacks are gaining popularity so might be good to kind of learn what happens or how to prevent one
FAC members registration is paid for as well as hotel rooms.
Would like to have some help from committee members during the conference
Would help in the presentations, but not have to give the entire presentation.
Draft session schedule will be sent to FAC next week.
If you are interested in helping out during one or more sessions, please let us know.
Pack update and schedule (Brian)
Last week of testing May Pack
Next week or the week after
Major items
Alcohol form not printing all information
Alcohol form not transmitting correctly
False Failures
Table Changes
DNR not transmitting correctly
Not returning errors
False failures
Race
UFAD form
No structure chosen requiring.
DNR Statutes
Canadian zip code for Contact Summary
Area of Damage on Crash form
After start developing the fall pack
Volunteer Agencies for testing (Geri, Dar)
Set up in our testing environment
We will be sending out a spreadsheet of information we would need to have.
We would install workstations as clients
This would allow agencies to be involved in testing new packs.
Updates takes a small amount of time
Agencies would get a message that updates are available do you want to install?
Important to have real life situations tested.
Referrals (Brian)
None for this meeting
Tejal
Green Bay PD
Graying out fields for a non-reportable crash.
Cannot be done in TraCS as it is a state wide form Agency specific fields cannot be grayed out.
Training issue
Brian will get back to her in writing.
Fall Package (Brian)
Map release between may and fall pack.
New shape files are being created.
Fall Release shooting for October
Incident form Phase 2 NIBRS Compliance
Transmission to DOJ
Evidence Form
Supplement Form
Transmission to DAIT
ELCI Issues
Bundling citations
Duplicate citations
Add citations number the math gets a negative number (priority)
Replicate and add new do not have on forms
UFAD
Transmission of Out of Service Report (Alcohol form)
Updated Analysis reports
Locating issues
Form Mechanicals
Structure number
Inspection form also
Other Topics advanced by the group
Questions:
Chad: Does any agencies have forms they used for bail jumping or armed OWI for blood draws?
Many counties use their own based on their DA requirements.
[11:47 AM] Cody Gulbrand (Guest)
We have our own OWI warrant form for Kew Co
Please send copies and we can look at them as possible future project.
Are any agencies planning on using the Incident form?
[11:50 AM] Kevin Bauer
we are not
[11:50 AM] Cody Gulbrand (Guest)
I do not believe anyone in Kew Co would
[11:50 AM] Chad Repinski
Waupaca county has not discussed plans to use it.
DNR will be using this in the future.
Will help streamline our procedures.
DNR has their own test environment.
Would it be beneficial to use it instead of BTHE
We can discuss further.
Next Meeting Dates
Aug 18 - Wednesday
Nov 3 - Wednesday
August Agenda
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
7:45 AM
Forms Advisory Committee Agenda
DeForest Post - In person
TEAMS Virtual Meeting
August 18, 2021
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
9:00 AM | Welcome |
| Housekeeping |
9:05 AM | Follow up from May meeting |
9:10 AM | User Conference |
9:55 AM | 'Add New' verses Replicate |
10:30 AM | Break |
10:45 AM | Crash topics |
11:00 AM | Fall Pack update and schedule |
11:15 AM | Testing the Fall Pack - Volunteers |
11:45 AM | Lunch |
12:30 PM | Incident Demo |
1:00 PM | Referrals |
1:15 PM | Other Topics advanced by the group |
1:30 PM | Adjourn |
August Notes
Monday, August 9, 2021
8:06 AM
Name | Agency | Attended | Method |
Brent Knutson | Cashton Police Department | N |
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Daniel Kawcznski | Marquette University Police Department | Y | I |
Cody Gulbrand | Algoma Police Department | Y | V |
Chad Repinski | Waupaca County Sheriff's Office | Y | I |
Tim Strohbusch | Clear Lake Police Department | N |
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Kevin Bauer | LaCrosse County Sheriff's Office | Y | I |
Jeff Vavera | Milwaukee Police Department | Y | I |
Al Myren | Ho-Chunk Nation PD | Y | I |
CaraLee Murphy | Ho-Chunk Nation PD (alternate) | Y | I |
Mark Fetzer | Wisconsin State Patrol | Y | I |
Travis Lauer | Wisconsin State Patrol | Y | I |
Alex Herrera | Natural Resources | Y | I |
Darlene Schwartz | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y | I |
Brian Neil | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y | V |
Geri Polster | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y | I |
Sharon Olson | Department of Transportation/DMV | Y | V |
Michael Satteson | Department of Transportation/DSP | N |
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Derek Veitenheimer | Department of Justice | N |
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Matt Drought | Milwaukee Police Department | N |
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Tejal Thakker | Department of Transportation/DSP | N |
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Brenda Ray | DA-IT | Y | V |
Tyler Renk | Department of Transportation/DMV | N |
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Kevin Barman | Natural Resources (alternate) | N |
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User Conference
In person this year
Will only be a one day conference
Review of Agenda
FAC members need to register, but do not pay the registration fee.
Overnight accommodations will be provided for those needing them.
Volunteers
Would be part of the presentation team
At most you would be talking up to 15 minutes.
After power points are completed a virtual meeting will be set up to review and assign topics.
Could use a few people to help with registration.
The following have volunteered
Chad would volunteer if available. He is currently signed up for another LE Training in Appleton
CaraLee - registration
Al would be willing to help with Registration
Alex - Advanced Features
Have about 135 people registered to attend.
Add New vs Replicate
Brian went through the documents he sent out on Add New vs Replicate. He then went through the different scenarios and options.
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
What citations would these be for?
Just the ELCI and not the DNR or Muni?
Correct - Just ELCI to ELCI
Travis question
This is specific to the ELCI
Why wouldn't you move the vehicle over all the time instead of having it as an option.
Other options is to not have popups, but to have multiple Add New buttons
Replicate means same subject and same vehicle
Only difference is
Decisions:
Add New on the ELCI to ELCI Only
Individual Popups
Vehicle
Violation
Plaintiff
Add New for other citations (Muni & DNR) No change
Replicate for any form - No change
Next Meeting Topic - research if the Agency Space is copied over to any citation using Add New or Replicate
Fall Pack Update and Schedule
New Supplement form
Incident Form
Versioning up to #2
Adding WIBRS form
Transmission:
Currently only eReferrals will go to DAIT
This fall WIBRS transmission to DOJ
Evidence Form
Modifying all agency tables
All versioning up
We are taking agency tables out of Support Table
Modifying Analysis Reports
Pull info in and then analyze
In the future, will first filter and then run query
Also, add a location specific
DNR Transmission issue
Day of Week isn't populating correctly
Having issues transmitting to WIJIS - schema error
TLT - Zoom in will be changed back - Will be able to 'locate' after it is opened up
TLT - Location fixed - On 151 At 151 has been fixed.
Days to Correct
2 digit to 3 digit
Demos
Supplemental Form
Bug - Lead Agency field doesn't have a dropdown list
Incident Form
Went through changes from the current Incident Form
The race field will be the field that will be replicated to other forms, not the WIBRS race field.
Tables - briefly discussed
Analysis Reports - briefly discussed
Fall Pack is planned to be released the first week of November
Testing the Fall Pack
Need a machine that does not have TraCS installed.
Looking for volunteers
Does not have to be FAC members, but any agency staff.
Referrals
3936 - Need to reach out to West Allis and see if it is a DL or a plate. Brenda (DAIT) states the issue is when they receive a State without the expiration date. As a preference, it causes a issues because CCAP can't accept '0000' either.
Create a warning if DL or plate number but no expiration date
Accepted
New issue - When the go to validate a citation, sometimes State gets put in but there isn't an expiration date
Add the rule for the plate the same as the DL.
Do this for all citations
Accepted
3960 - Sound like they should use the Incident form instead of trying to turn the contact Summary form. Both DSP and Milwaukee doesn't want these changes.
Declined
3961 - Mainly for BTHE
Accepted
3989 -
This would be for all forms
It will put it back to the status it was in prior to the failed transmission.
Accepted
3990 -
DSP and Milwaukee PD - they don't want this.
Declined
Incident / Evidence Form Demo
How many people will be using the Incident form?
State Patrol
DNR
Evidence form subcommittee created to design and create an evidence form for law enforcement.
Brought in evidence techs
Property form will be versioned up.
Evidence form access will be limited by access rights
Evidence reporter
For staff that collect evidence and completes forms
Evidence supervisor
Will handle chain of custody
Reports
Storage label creation
Two ways to open the Evidence form
If using the Incident form, then replicate to evidence form
Open the evidence form.
There are 5 types of evidence
Firearms
Currency
Drugs
Replication of form
Pulled the location, individual, vehicle, chain of custody.
Printing out barcodes and receipts
Barcodes can be printed at any time
Receipts are a combination report.
Pulls data from multiple forms to create a single receipt.
There is an optional signature line.
Sending evidence to the lab
Another combination report is generated
Chain of custody can be done on multiple forms at once.
Will add another chain of custody groups to each highlighted forms.
Disposal of Evidence
Can choose type of disposal
Comments
Looks great.
Officer on road will collect and put in evidence locker. Supervisor will handle from there.
There are a some fields that are not locking down, but Geri is working on them.
Other topics advanced by the group:
How did the meeting go ?
Remoting worked well for Sharon.
Hard to hear some of the speakers
Is this something we should continue to offer?
Yes, helps if you have to attend to other things and not miss the entire meeting.
Attend the conference?
Cody - no
Chad - no
Dar will be sending out email about helping out and room needs for the conference sometime next week.
Next Meeting Dates
Nov 3 - Wednesday
November Agenda
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
9:05 AM
Tentative Forms Advisory Committee Agenda
DeForest Post - In person
TEAMS Virtual Meeting
November 3, 2021
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
9:00 AM | Welcome |
| Housekeeping |
| Follow up from previous meeting |
9:05 AM | Fall Pack Update |
9:50 AM | 2022 Plan |
10:00 AM | F2 Help Project |
11:00 AM | Break |
11:15 AM | User Conference |
11:35 AM | Law Enforcement Survey |
11:50 AM | Auto search at Log on |
11:55 AM | Future meetings |
12:00 PM | Schedule first 2022 meeting |
12:15 PM | Other topics as needed |
1:00 PM | Adjourn |
November Notes
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
8:57 AM
Tentative Forms Advisory Committee Agenda
DeForest Post - In person
TEAMS Virtual Meeting
November 3, 2021
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Attendees:
Name | Agency | Attended | Method |
Brente Knutson | Cashton Police Department | N |
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Daniel Kawcznski | Marquette University Police Department | Y | I |
Cody Gulbrand | Algoma Police Department | N |
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Chad Repinski | Waupaca County Sheriff's Office | N |
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Tim Strohbusch | Clear Lake Police Department | N |
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Kevin Bauer | LaCrosse County Sheriff's Office | Y | I |
Jeff Vavera | Milwaukee Police Department | Y | i |
Al Myren | Ho-Chunk Nation PD | Y | v |
CaraLee Murphy | Ho-Chunk Nation PD (alternate) | N |
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Mark Fetzer | Wisconsin State Patrol | N |
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Travis Lauer | Wisconsin State Patrol | Y | I |
Alex Herrera | Natural Resources | N |
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Darlene Schwartz | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y | I |
Brian Neil | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y | I |
Geri Polster | Department of Transportation/DSP | N |
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Sharon Olson | Department of Transportation/DMV | Y | V |
Michael Satteson | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y | V |
Derek Veitenheimer | Department of Justice | N |
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Matt Drought | Milwaukee Police Department | N |
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Tejal Thakkar | Department of Transportation/DSP | Y | I |
Brenda Ray | DA-IT | N |
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Tyler Renk | Department of Transportation/DMV | N |
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Kevin Barman | Natural Resources (alternate) | N |
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9:00 AM | Welcome |
| Housekeeping |
| Follow up from previous meeting |
9:05 AM | Fall Pack Update |
9:50 AM | 2022 Plan |
10:00 AM | F2 Help Project |
11:00 AM | Break |
11:15 AM | User Conference |
11:35 AM | Law Enforcement Survey |
11:50 AM | Auto search at Log on |
11:55 AM | Future meetings |
12:00 PM | Schedule first 2022 meeting |
12:15 PM | Other topics as needed |
1:00 PM | Adjourn |
Follow-up from Previous Meeting
Is the agency space copied over to other agencies using replicate or Add New for the ELCI? Yes, it also does for the NTC.
Fall Pack Update
Plan for the fall pack release
Release in January
We'd like to have more agencies test
Testing process
Brian went through and showed the Issue Tracker we use along with the Testing Spreadsheet and the Failed Spreadsheet
Testing Spreadsheet - From the 'Fall2021' tab, copy all of the "All" categories to all of the tabs. Also, copy all of the specific forms to each of those forms
Have a list of rules so they can see if they can break it.
Moving forward - if we are going to have other LE agencies help with testing, we need to improve our 'Testing Notes' as well as looking at the process.
Big changes in the Fall Pack
Table changes - new custom
Analysis Report updates
New Evidence form
New Supplement
Updated Incident
2022 Plan
Release fall pack in Jan / Feb
Hope to have Incident ready to release at the same time
Pack releases will be limited - table updates only or critical or very important bug fixes
Main objective - migrate agencies
F2 Help Project
Troopers on light duty have worked on this project
Trying to find a replacement for the 'blue book' for crash form
Having info. on the F2 Helps - how to fill out the forms is missing, and we want some device to share with supervisors, attorneys, media, etc.
Clean up F2 Helps
How does the local F2 Help work? If an agency,
When the F2 Help Field is pulled up, the title of the F2 Help is the same as the Field name.
When running an Adhoc Report, the field names are similar or the same as the Field Name, not the Data Bar Name
Create a standard for completing F2 Helps
Punctuation, abbreviations (St or Street, Hwy or Highway)
Have a standard layout of the F2 Help
Questions / Discussion
Look at Data bar Field Name vs Field Name
Should these fields be the same or very close to the same?
Yes, as long as they don't touch the underlying table field name
Are there limitations for the two field names?
TraCS Staff would need to look into this
Identify what should be changed and what it should be changed to
Create new F2 Helps for 'blank' F2 fields
For those that are FAC forms
Send fields to the Form Sponsors to complete
Verify that there aren't F2 helps there, but TraCS is not pulling the correct file.
Modify F2 Helps
Identify 'Standard' fields that are on all forms
Should we have standard F2 Helps for identical field types on all forms? IE, Agency Group - all the fields in that group.
Yes, for those fields that are the same on all forms.
What forms do we start with?
Do we prioritize the forms?
For the F2 Help Title, which field name should appear, the Data bar Field or the Form field name?
??? I had stepped out. I think it should be form field name
How should we handle punctuation in the Data Bar Field name or the form Field Name ?
Should we have a format/layout for the F2 Help?
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How to handle Capitalization in the field names?
Have punctuation if needed. Per the sponsor.
Should all the F2 Help field have a Revision Date field?
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Should we add a dedicated email in the F2 Helps? IE, general crash email
Crash would be interested to add to each F2 Help
We could add it to the Agency Number Field and it can list all the email addresses for all the forms
Add a link in each file to link back to one file with all the contact info. for all the forms.
Mike Satteson shared - In footer of the F2 Help - As an experiment I found that it is possible to create a link in the F2 help that initiates an email that provides the form and field name in the subject line.
Could we create a table to enter all the F2 Helps in, Field Name, Revision Date, Original Date, Description, Email, other links, etc.? Instead of using the HTML files.
How can it be set up so an agency can add their own comments? - Same table or different table (Custom?)
Just need to have TraCS point to the correct table.
What is the User Guide or User Manual they are talking about? (Travis and Tejal were talking about this)
TraCS User Conference
Quick review of how the conference went
320 attendees
Breakout rooms were set up with a lot of space between people
Theatre setup and not classroom
Received questions - felt it was more interactive without the tables
General session - tight quarters - only had 9 people instead of 10 per table so need more tables. Only had room for 2 screens, but they them on the short end and those in the back could not see very well. (In 2019, the screens were on the long side of the room and everyone could see with only 2 screens.)
Lunch was a miss and the lunch presentation - TEAMS virtual setup went in and out so it was hard to hear the presentation.
Other than that, things went well.
Law Enforcement Survey
Do we ask if agency's officers/users use the F2 Help?
Are you on MS Access?
What is your plan?
Set up your own SQL
BTHE
Work with neighboring agency
Are you completing the following forms? UFAD -
Would you use a non-reportable Use of Force form that collects lesser uses of force? This would focus on agency related fields.
Auto search at Log on
Some officers have a lot of forms and for those on the webservices it may bog things down
FAC wants to leave it as is
Future Meetings - Charter
Due to the pandemic and changes in the last couple of years, there were a couple of suggested changes to be made to the Charter.
Add a statement stating that the meetings well be hybrid where people can come in person or virtual
Modify a statement regarding how long the meets are. Change from 6 hours to 3-4 hours.
We'll make the changes and review and approve the changes in the next meeting.
Schedule first 2022 meetings
Brian will send out an email to see what dates would be best (February 8, 9, 10 or 15, 16 or 17)
Other Questions/Topics
Tejal - Can we have multiple officers working on same case, but different forms? We believe that this should work.
Calumet County - Alcohol Form question?
Tejal - Can they drag and drop info. ? Yes, individual, vehicle, ?
Sharon O. - Someone wants the following statute added - Sharon can't find in CCAP - where will it go?
SPS 320.22
Contact CCAP and see if they are able to add it.
Referrals
4007 - Yes, as long as it is legal - have that printed as a courtesy copy
4011 - Yes, as long as there is room to add
4012 - No, they should be issuing a new citation with the correction letter
Brian's November notes
Thursday, October 28, 2021
3:33 PM
Research if the Agency Space is copied over to any citation using Add New or Replicate
Should the Auto Search at Login be the default?
User Conference follow up
MS Access pushed back to 2022
Fall Pack Update
Show the Box testing spreadsheet
Show the failed items spreadsheet
Release moved to Jan
Still looking for testing agencies
What does it take to install
Incident form - may or may not go out in Fall pack
Law enforcement survey
Questions:
Sql?
64 bit operating system available
Future meetings
Start to schedule them for 4 hours.
Virtual hybrid meeting
Review of Charter
Suggestions for updates
Bring forth at first meeting next year.
F2 Help
Start with forms that FAC sponsored forms.
Dar to find Dave's email with the trooper research
Invite Dave Harvey to meeting - Brian
QR Codes
Is this something that would be a good thing.
What are the different options that could be used.
Alcohol Influence
Can this be allowed to be reopened after transmission?
Needed to be used again for the BAC or second step.
Audio/Video Setup
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
8:15 AM
For FAC Hybrid meetings at De Forest Post.
Connect laptop to smart board.
Turn off the speakers and microphone on your laptop.
Dial in on the phone to the meeting phone number
Enter the conference ID.
The phone does not need to be in the center of the room.
email badgertracs@dot.wi.gov or call 608-267-2096