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Exhibit B <br />Probable Cause Declaration Interface <br />STATEMENT OF WORK <br />1. Background <br />Currently as part of processing a prisoner for booking into a jail, a police officer must fill <br />out a Probable Cause Declaration (PC Dec) by hand and fax the completed form to the <br />Superior Court where the form is reviewed by a Judicial Hearing Officer (JHO). Based <br />on the content of the form, the JHO will determine whether or not there is sufficient <br />probable cause that the arrestee has committed a crime and should be kept in custody. <br />This system has a number of problems. First, due to the form being filled out by hand <br />and then being faxed, it is often partially or entirely illegible when it reaches the JHO. <br />Adding to this problem is that when changes or additions are required, part of the form's <br />contents may be scratched out or additional information may be written in the very <br />limited space available on the paper form, thereby making the document even more <br />difficult to read. Secondly, it requires a duplication of effort on the part of the arresting <br />officer as much of the information required for the PC Dec is also needed for other <br />booking documents. Third, using a paper-based system makes it difficult to share the <br />information as the arrestee is transferred between agencies and facilities. Fourth, <br />notification of the outcome of the review has been inconsistent. Agencies are usually not <br />notified at all if a PC Dec is approved. If it is rejected, then the submitting agency must <br />be notified that the detainment has been rejected and that they must either resubmit the <br />PC Dec with additional information or release the arrestee. As mentioned previously, <br />resubmitting the form with additional information written on it can make it difficult to <br />read. <br />To address these issues, Integrated Law and Justice Agency for Orange County <br />(ILJAOC) has contracted with a firm to create a secure portal by which agencies can <br />submit their PC Dec's electronically. There are two methods for making a submission. <br />The first is to log onto the website and fill out the form on the screen. The second is by <br />sending the data directly from an agency's JMS. The Santa Ana Police Department was <br />selected to be the pilot agency for the latter method. <br />25B-30