What is an e warrant?

When looking for an easy-to-use, streamlined system for receiving, filing and serving warrants, Kentucky turned to Open Portal Solution's NE Warrants program. Like all states, they had faced years of time-intensive process prone to redundancies and inaccuracies.

Known as E-Warrants in Kentucky, the program is a robust electronic forms application for the judicial system. Requests for warrants, summons can be submitted electronically. Because E-Warrants is a web based program, judges can use it to review and approve requests on their laptops or PDAs at their convenience. Once a request has been approved, E-Warrants sends out notification to all law enforcement agencies in the state. (The information is also linked to the NCIC.) All warrants are available to agencies instantaneously.

Kentucky public safety officials have been very pleased with this system because it has greatly increased the number of warrants that are actually served, instead of sitting in files. In addition to keeping up with current-day warrants, they have been able to serve 30% of their back filed warrants.

In Kentucky, more than 82% of the Criminal Complaints that become Warrants of Arrest are being served-and the offender is arrested-using the the OPS E-Warrants application. Prior to E-Warrants, it was estimated that less than 6% of the warrants were served.