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Minnesota eCharging ELECTRONIC SEARCH WARRANTS
Minnesota eCharging
ELECTRONIC SEARCH WARRANTS
PRESENTER
Kent Therkelsen
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Product Manager651-793-2446
ECHARGING IS
• Secure, electronic document exchange
• Electronic Workflow
• Electronic signatures
• Workflow Management & Monitoring
• Criminal Justice Data Integration
ECHARGING GOALS
• Reduce time and costs required to produce, approve, and exchange charging documents, incident reports , DWI forms and search warrants
• Reduce duplicate data entry
• Increase data security, accuracy and consistency
• Enable workflow management and visibility to charging documents and DWI forms
E-CHARGING PRODUCTS
Criminal
Complaints
D.W.I.
Processing
Incident
Referrals to
Prosecution
eCitations
Search
Warrants
Criminal
Vehicular
Operation Secure Data
Network
E-CHARGING USERS
Role
Law Enforcement Officer 10,341
Law Enforcement Records 1,419
Prosecutor 1,125
Paralegal 794
Judge 377
Court Administration 750
Driver & Vehicle Services 24
Jail Administrator 52
BCA Admin/Support 57
Total Users: 14,939
ELECTRONIC SEARCH WARRANT
PROJECT HISTORY• Early request from Judges and Law Enforcement after
eComplaints implemented
• Demand increased with legal challenges to warrantless blood draws
– Project kick-off: February 2016
– Pilot Test: October-December 2016
– Statewide Deployment: January to April 2017
• No mandate for use – approved option
PROJECT PARTNERS
• Office of Traffic Safety-MN Department of Public Safety
• Minnesota State Court Administration
• Minnesota State Patrol and Hennepin County District Courts
• Minnesota County Attorneys Association
• Multiple LE agencies and Court staff
ENABLING LEGISLATION
AND COURT RULES• Electronic signatures for law enforcement officers,
prosecutors and judges
• Penalty-of-Perjury signatures accepted for search warrant application (eliminates notary or oath)
• Refusal to provide sample for search warrant is now a crime. Sample may be taken with force for serious injury or death crashes
• Refusal to provide sample or failed test result reported to DVS for license revocation
SEARCH WARRANT WORKFLOW
1. LEO creates, signs and submits
warrant application to
eCharging for routing to Judge.
3. Judge Reviews Application, consults as
needed with LEO. Rejects with
comments or approves by signing.
2. eCharging routes to Judge
based upon business rules.
4. Judge action triggers document return to LEO.
5. Court filing through system integration.
(Future phase)
SEARCH WARRANT CREATION
Two warrant
types:
• General
• DWI• Injuries
• No
Injuries
SEARCH WARRANT WITH REFUSAL
POST-ARREST ACTIONS
(ECHARGING INTEGRATIONS)
• Publish to Driver and Vehicle Services (Refusal or
test failure)
• Submit incident report to prosecutor
• Vehicle forfeiture forms created by eCharging and
emailed to designated LE agency forfeiture
coordinator:– Notice to registered owner
– Notice to Lien holder(s)
– Notice to DVS to flag title
WARRANT SUBMISSIONS
10/1/16 TO 3/31/18
10/1/16 to
9/30/17
10/1/17 to
3/31/18
Project Total
General Search
Warrants1,950 4,847 6,797
D.W.I. Search
Warrants2,525 2,382 4,907
Total 4,475 7,230 11,704
Daily Average 12.26 39.73 21.40
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Pilot Begins
Statewide Roll
Out Begins
Statewide Roll-
out Complete
E-DWI WARRANTS BY MONTH
New DWI and
Search Warrant
Legislation
USER FEEDBACK
• Feedback overwhelmingly favorable– Judges
– Law Enforcement Officers
• Challenges:– Officers must file executed warrants through court’s
process. (eCharging integration planned as future
enhancement)
– Mobile Wireless connectivity and printing capability not
available to all officers statewide
– Change management issues
LESSONS LEARNED - POSITIVES
– Built on Established Platform• User acceptance
• Simplified training
– Court/BCA Partnership
• Statewide court administration
• Judge training
• Network access 24 x 7
– Use of Judges and LE Officers for design input
– Court and Legislative alignment with system goals
and design
LESSONS LEARNED - CAUTIONS
– Local Practice Issues• Assignment/on-call Judge• Local custom
– Roll-Out Communications• Statewide challenge
–Generic Change Management Challenges• Affinity with past processes
CONTACT
Kent Therkelsen
MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
eCharging Product Manager651-793-2446
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