New Mexico Municipal Courts

DWI DataOverview and Processes

June 2008

Municipal Court Automation ProgramNew Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts

Judicial Information Division

Required by statute

• §35-14-12 (1994) requires each municipal court to be capable of providing on a timely basis electronic records of convictions for DWI and domestic violence.

• Related legislation provides for reimbursement of automation expenses.

Data Sharing

• Law enforcement

• Courts

• District and city attorneys

• Public

Why Report DWI?

The DWI disposition report is generated by your court software and combined into a zip file of the form

mmddyy.crtu.zip

• mmddyy is the month, day, and year

• crtu is your court’s assigned abbreviation, i.e., alau

• “u” is for municipal

DWI Disposition Report

The zip file is sent to Municipal Court Automation by one of the following processes.

• QFTP or any other FTP client you prefer

• Windows Explorer with Internet Explorer

• If all else fails, email

Provide DWI status on a monthly basis. Court’s reporting history is taken into consideration by the Automation Committee for reimbursement approvals.

Zip File Process

  Zip file checked for completeness and data integrity

  Zip file uploaded to an intermediate server

  Text files extracted from the zip file

  Data uploaded to muni court database on JID server

  Numbers of cases uploaded recorded for each court

  Court contacted if errors occurred 

  Data copied to additional servers for publication

DWI Data Process

DWI Data Flow

Cases from the municipal court database are transferred by a trigger-driven process to the state’s Central Repository, where they become available for official use and public lookup. It may take a few days to synchronize the databases. Cases available for public lookup exclude sealed and restricted information.

• www.nmcourts.gov  - publicly available lookup tool

• www.nmjustice.net - for official use only

• www.nmmunicourts.org - for municipal courts

DWI Data Lookup

DWI Data Flow