The WIJIS (Wisconsin Justice Information Sharing) Program supports OJA’s mission of Building Safer Communities by helping to deliver to law enforcement officers, prosecutors and other criminal justice professionals the information they need to make timely, accurate and fair decisions. Specifically, WIJIS exists to improve the flow of information across community and organizational boundaries and between computerized systems. WIJIS does so by building partnerships among stakeholders in the criminal justice system and harnessing technology to improve justice system processes.

All of these activities are aimed at arming all criminal justice system decision-makers with more information, better information, and information that is timely and directly focused on the decision at hand.

In the end, it's all about decision making.

WIJIS seeks to improve decision-making in three key ways:
1. Improving the effectiveness of decisions. Good decision-making is informed by reliable, timely information. When decision makers share information across boundaries, they all have a better sense of the big picture and make fairer, more effective decisions. The WIJIS Justice Gateway and other agencies’ information-sharing initiatives focus on informing decision-makers.

2. Improving the efficiency of decision-making. The criminal justice process is often characterized by the flow of paper between justice agencies (arrest reports, charging documents, sentencing orders, warrants, conditions of probation and parole, to name only a few). Wisconsin’s criminal justice community has made significant strides in computerizing this workflow, eliminating expensive and time-consuming re-keying of data. Click here for a summary of projects that WIJIS and other agencies are leading.