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Ray County changes warrant entry system
Ray County has changed the way it electronically enters warrants for arrests, searches and other lawrelated business.
Starting Tuesday, the Ray County Courthouse began entering the data, rather than 911 dispatchers. Ray County E-911 Director Kim Davis announced the change was coming June 23, when the board convened in the 911 building in downtown Richmond.
The change will save dispatchers time, Davis suggested.
“Dispatchers are probably doing three, four times the amount of work that they would normally have to do. … They’re having to document far more than what they normally would,” she told the board.
Moreover, under the previous system, warrants were getting “lost” in the computer system and weren’t always pulled on time, Davis said. A search through some county warrants that were on file electronically revealed there were 15 warrants “that should have been removed that were still in the system,” she said.
Some warrants that need to be removed have stayed in the system 12, even 18…