Sheriff’s office moves toward digital record-keeping

The arrest from college that has become a well-known story among your friends hasn’t been forgotten by the county, either.

In fact, the records including your name, address, photographs and fingerprints will be kept on file forever, even if you are never arrested again.

For the Johnson County jail, that means storing thousands of paper records until the county can afford to scan each document so it can be stored digitally.

The jail soon will be able to stop adding documents to the pile, because the Johnson County Board of Commissioners has given the sheriff’s office approval to buy equipment to scan the documents.

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