By Rob Ginter - Staff Writer
CNHI
March 18, 2010 — The Rowan County Detention Center has received a spotless bill of health when it comes to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR), according to Kentucky State Police officials.
“Every time that I’ve checked it during a UCR audit or Mr. (Jailer Don) Hall has called me and wants to know how his staff’s doing, I’ve had a 100 percent since he took office,” said Dan Boyd, Criminal Justice Information System Compliance Specialist III with the Kentucky State Police.
“(A UCR is) the fingerprints, the officers citations, the officers reports, we make sure that the officers charge the people with the right thing,” Boyd said. “We make officers follow up with a disposition. The criminal history is generated from the fingerprints and the charges. We do all the checks and balances and make sure everything is 100 percent accurate.
“I think they should be commended because it went from a 50 percent fingerprint submission to a 100 percent.” Boyd said. “It’s a random check, we randomly pick 10 or some from different months unless it’s requested by the jailers.
“Our reports go to the state police and they turn them over to the Department of Corrections because there is funding tied with this,” Boyd said. “If the detentions centers aren’t finger printing which we do have problems with, the Department of Corrections deals with that. There are set protocols and law dealing with that.”
“Well, anytime that you get a good audit or positive report you know your staff is doing the job that you’re asking them to do,” said Rowan County Jailer Don Hall. “It tells me they understand the importance of the finger prints and scanning the records for the KSP in the FBI records.”
“The audits are periodically and random,” Hall said. “They pull random numbers of citations and make sure that the finger printing is completed.”
