Larry Arrington

Larry Arrington Chief Systems Architect, Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center In December 2001, Larry Arrington began working with the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts. This was fresh on the heels of 9/11 when everyone was re-examining the disparity of criminal justice data and systems both within and across agency boundaries. It was during his tenure with AOC that Mr. Arrington developed the first Master Name Index system for the state of Alabama’s criminal justice community. This system represented the first time that Alabama’s case-based mainframe court data could be viewed from the unified perspective of a “Person”. In 2002 Mr. Arrington was selected to represent AOC on the GJXDM project with Georgia Tech University, where he participated in several working group sessions during the early years of the data model. It was during this time that Mr. Arrington gained a unique perspective on the challenges of data integration across agency boundaries. In 2005 Mr. Arrington was hired as the Chief Systems Architect on the Alabama Dept. of Corrections Inmate Management System project, which was a complete re-engineering of all inmate-related software systems. During the course of the IMS project, Mr. Arrington engineered multiple cross-agency integrations with AOC, Pardons and Paroles, Community Corrections, the Dept. of Public Safety, the Social-Security Administration, and the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, or ACJIC. Since January of 2009, Mr. Arrington has been working with ACJIC on multiple projects, one of which was the state of Alabama’s Victim Notifications System, funded by SAVIN. In the spring of 2014, ACJIC was awarded the SAVIN VN SSP grant project with the goal of creating a NIEM-compliant county jail data exchange. With the assistance provided by IJIS and their partners, Alabama became the first state in the US to implement an exchange of this type.