The Department of Administration is tentatively planning a 30-minute outage to the SFTP system on 2/15, starting at 8:00 am, for the purpose of upgrading the server. All Gateway operator agencies (those running Gateway integration software) should refrain from attempting SFTP pointer transactions during this outage unless an agency has fail-over/retry capabilities.

User Administrators should call WIJIS for new, initial, default password taking effect February 11.

The DA IT database of DA PROTECT information for the WIJIS Justice Gateway will be unavailable today February 11, 2009. The expectation is that it will be ready with current information once again tomorrow morning. There is no indication that this affects any systems other than the Justice Gateway.

Any service interruption this week that users may have experienced in retrieving DA PROTECT information through the Justice Gateway has concluded. If users ever encounter service interruption, they are first advised to check this news site. Upon finding no news item concerning an ongoing outage, they are advised to notify help desk, the phone number for which is on the Gateway page under the menu item Info/Help/HelpDesk.

Over the past few months, the WIJIS Gateway has continued to expand by adding new data sources. Since the beginning of the year the following local law enforcement agencies have started submitting data to the WIJIS Gateway: Fitchburg PD, Sun Prairie PD, Middleton PD, Hudson PD, North Hudson PD, River Falls PD, Roberts PD, Woodville PD, Baldwin PD, and St. Croix County Sheriff's Department. The addition of these agencies means there are currently 89 local law enforcement agencies submitting data to the WIJIS Gateway. Additionally, there are a number of other local law enforcement agencies currently working with WIJIS staff to begin submitting data to the Gateway. We fully anticipate the number of agencies submitting data to the Gateway to continue to grow throughout 2009.

Secondly, Milwaukee County District Attorney's office recently started contributing data to the DA PROTECT system. Data from the DA PROTECT system has been available on the WIJIS Gateway since the summer of 2008.

Finally, the WIJIS Gateway struck another milestone earlier this week. At this time over 150 local law enforcement agencies are signed up to search the Gateway for valuable criminal justice data. As a result, over 50% of the population of the State of Wisconsin lives in a jurisdiction that is either submitting data or search for data on the WIJIS Gateway.