New Ohio eWarrants System Announced

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced the official launch of Ohio’s new eWarrants system, a statewide criminal justice database that will improve the accuracy of state and federal background checks and streamline the process to file warrants and protection orders in Ohio.

The new eWarrants interface is a shared information technology system free for use by courts and law enforcement that simplifies the process of uploading warrant and protection order information into Ohio’s Law Enforcement Automated Data System and the National Crime Information Center.

Those are the background-check systems used to prevent inadvertent gun sales to wanted criminals and to aid law enforcement in identifying those with outstanding warrants and open protection orders.

Meigs County Common Pleas Court was the first agency to bring the eWarrant system online.

It has reduced its bench warrant filing time to as little as 12 minutes, as opposed to the previous days-long process.