Would the following be considered a service impact to county employees or citizens of Montgomery County? DTS mainframe is the reason that was used to RIF nine employees last March by the former DTS Director Steve Emanuel, however most employees in DTS believe it was retaliation for filing several grievances against there supervisor. The story is that all the servers went down on Sunday night, March 11th because the temperature in the computer room hit 130 degrees. It would have taken several hours for the air conditioning units to be down to reach that temperature. These are the type of problems that will continue to happen when you don’t provide the appropriate coverage needed for a computer room providing support to a county as prominent as Montgomery County. DTS management said that there would be no service impacts when they… let go nine ” Essential ” personnel. I’ll let you judge if they were honest and forthcoming.

No service impact. Tell that to the children of this woman who was murdered. The judge couldn’t access CJIS, which is a mainframe application, that was down for several hours, Sunday night into Monday afternoon. The same mainframe that DTS used as an excuse to RIF several employees. The outage Sunday night could have been held to a minimal if DTS hadn’t of excused these ” ESSENTIAL ” personnel. Very likely with minimal downtime the CJIS system would have been available Monday morning. It was not until these servers went down that the automated emails started going out to the proper personnel. The only problem is, that the several hours between the air conditioners going down and the servers going down was critical this time.

Also incidentally, DTS has been trying to convert CJIS to IJIS since 2004. A project DTS originally said would take 18 months.

DTS Management can’t blame this all on the former Director, because acting Director Dieter Klinger was 100% supportive of the decision to RIF the nine employees.

RIP Heather …miss you tons