Success Stories

Texas Youth Commission

Problem
Texas Youth Commission (TYC), a large state agency responsible for youth in the criminal justice system, had a manual process for tracking the transportation of youth between their facilities. But the manual process of planning these movements was too time consuming, reduced staff’s ability to quickly respond to inquiries, increased the amount of time required for reporting, and provided no room for future expansion.

Solution
Cobb Information Systems, Inc. created a web-based intranet solution to allow users around the state to enter requests for transfers, operators to plan trip stops to move youth to the different facilities, van drivers to check off the completion of trips, and upper management to run live reports.

Technology Used
Internet Information Server, Active Server Pages, HTML, VBScript, Outlook, SQL Server

Results
This application has brought organization to the otherwise chaotic and time-consuming manual process of moving 150-200 youth across the state each week and has cut the time used for tracking these movements by 75%. The system has also sped up the time to create upper management reports from weeks to seconds.