Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan Jr.
Scott Newman, Public Safety Director, City of Indianapolis
Law Enforcement Officers piloting new hand-held electronic citation system

Indiana’s Judicial and Executive branches received state and federal grants to launch a statewide electronic ticket system called eCWS (electronic Citation and Warning System). The new mobile system allows officers to create tickets electronically and send them to a central repository for law enforcement, prosecutors and courts without additional data entry or the need to decipher handwriting. The information can then be assigned a case number and tracked by Odyssey, the Indiana Supreme Court’s case management system, providing an end-to-end system where data is inputted once and shared with appropriate users.

The eCWS MOBILE program is funded in part through an Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) for the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance and administered by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.  JAG funding allows states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own local needs and conditions. Grant funding was also provided by the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.