Meigs County in southeastern Ohio’s Appalachian region is leading the way among counties in the state to make law enforcement easier, if not safer, for officers and citizens.
Gov. Mike DeWine, law enforcement officials, and Meigs County court officials announced on July 6 that the county was going active with the state’s new eWarrant System.
The goal and mission of the program are for faster input and access to arrest warrant information, including on protection orders, state and federal background checks, and Tier I crime offenders (sexual-related crimes), through the a database that can be accessed state-wide.
Meigs County, which has a population of slightly more than 22,000, is the first of Ohio’s 88 counties to sign on to the $4.7 million state-funded eWarrant project that was awarded to Dayton, Ohio-based Lexis Nexis, which provides data analytic services and databases. InnovateOhio, which coordinates and shares data and resources across the state, coordinated the development of the new eWarrants database between the Ohio Department of Public Safety and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services….