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Crash Task Force | Forms Advisory Committee | National Model Steering Committee | Wisconsin TraCS Steering Committee

Forms Advisory Committee

The Forms Advisory Committee was created in the fall of 2006. Volunteers for the team were solicited at the 2006 Badger TraCS User Meeting. The purpose of this committee is to consult, collaborate and recommend enhancements to the Badger TraCS suite of forms. This committee will provide recommendations for future TraCS development and new forms prioritization to the Wisconsin TraCS Steering Committee. Final approval on development priorities will come from the Wisconsin TraCS Steering Committee.

Twenty agencies expressed interest in being on the committee. Team members include Badger TraCS developers, form sponsors and representatives from each law enforcement discipline, e.g. local, county, state, throughout the state. The team meets quarterly and has committed to serve a 2-year term. 

Law Enforcement Agencies may contact any Forms Advisory Committee member or Badger TraCS to suggest new forms or enhancements.

The Forms Advisory Committee members include:

• Burnett County Sheriffs Department
• Dane County Sheriffs Department
• Menasha Police Department
• Milwaukee Police Department
• Monroe Police Department
• River Falls Police Department
• Rome Police Department
• Washington County Sheriffs Department
• Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles
• Wisconsin State Patrol

Wisconsin TraCS Steering Committee

In November 2002, the Wisconsin TraCS Steering Committee, with representatives from all agencies interested in development of TraCS forms was formed. Membership includes representatives from WisDOT’s Division of Motor Vehicles; Division of State Patrol, Bureau of Transportation Safety; Division of Business Management, Bureau of Information Technology Services; Office of Justice Assistance and Department of Administration.

The committee meets semi-annually to discuss funding availability, project timing, outreach, training, support issues and new form development.

The mission of the Wisconsin TraCS Steering Committee is to facilitate implementation of TraCS across state and local agencies in Wisconsin by coordinating the development of TraCS forms. To ensure this, an Information Technology (IT) Coordination Team was formed and a policies and procedures document developed.

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National Model Steering Committee

The National Model Steering Committee is comprised of representatives from all states licensed to use TraCS. Other interested states are invited to participate as well. Federal agencies such as National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) are also represented. Meetings are held semi-annually to provide state updates, share successes and failures, discuss funding and maintenance issues, enhancements, new versions, releases and progress of TraCS 10 rewrite. Each licensed state is typically represented by a program manager and a technical manager.

The state of Iowa owns the source code for TraCS and provides royalty-free licensing to each state licensed to use TraCS. Iowa provides the state license holder with a list of serial numbers that are used to install TraCS and to build forms.  In Wisconsin, WisDOT's TAS in the Bureau of Driver Services, Division of Motor Vehicles, is the license holder.

TraCS Crash Task Force

The TraCS Crash Task Force was created in October 2003 to consult, collaborate and create an electronic crash data collection tool for law enforcement use. Letters of interest were sent to 620 law enforcement agencies in the state. Applications were received from 39 agencies. From these 39 agencies, 10 were chosen based on agency size, agency type (police, sheriff, state, other), geographic distribution and equipment or lack of equipment availability.

The Task Force met monthly to design the data collection tools that are available to any law enforcement agency in the state.  Forms that were developed include: MV4000, Abbreviated Car/Deer Report and the Driver Information Exchange report.

The automated MV4000 and associated forms were field tested by four Task Force agencies* during the fall of 2004 and were pilot tested in spring 2005. Rollout of Badger TraCS suite of forms began June 2005.

Task Force members include representatives from the following agencies:

• *Calumet County Sheriffs Department
• *Dane County Sheriffs Department
• *Fond du Lac Police Department
• Green Bay Police Department
• La Crosse Police Department
• Ladysmith Police Department
• Marinette County Sheriffs Department
• Milwaukee Police Department
• Sun Prairie Police Department
• *Wisconsin State Patrol - Southwest Region

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Last modified: February 2, 2008