FNTI recognized as best company for California Corrections Strategic Offender Management System

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»» SAN JOSE, California — California Department of Corrections - Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS)

The California Corrections Strategic Offender Management System project (SOMS) will consolidate more than 40 aging electronic database systems, existing records and manual paper processes which are becoming increasingly difficult and costly to maintain. As part of this project, there are adult, juvenile and parole physical records which consist of some 350,000 files with approximately 175,000,000 paper and 17,500,000 microfiche frames to be converted to a digital format.

"SOMS will revolutionize the process for sharing and utilizing offender data, and will significantly improve offender management processes," said Matthew Cate, CDCR Secretary. "Even in these challenging financial times, the benefits to the state are immense. For the first time in our agency’s history, we will have a unified, automated system for tracking offenders.

FNTI was recognized as the best company by EDS, an HP Company, to convert these records on site at some 50 locations. All paper will be prepped, scanned and indexed with document classification using secured practices and a high level of quality assurance. Staging of the project has begun along with testing to determine the best practices. Production is scheduled to begin the first quarter of 2010.