i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/business/11unboxed.html

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/nyregion/connecticut/09crimect.html

This article describes the emergence of a need to interconnect various criminal databases so that a judge, or any other decisionmaker involved in the judiciary process, can have a complete view of the defandant criminal history.