In 2026, roughly 85% of justice and public safety agencies will become customers of a centralized IT agency, and most of those IT plans include a move to the cloud. This JPS TRUST focus area helps you decide which systems are ready to migrate, move them securely, and keep annual cloud spend under control once they’re there.
Centralized IT’s five-year plan may set the direction, but it rarely spells out how a sheriff’s office running 20 or 30 subsystems should get there. Agencies are left to work out the order, the security requirements, and the budget on their own.
CJIS requirements and chain-of-custody concerns rule out a generic migration, and agencies want their evidence and records fully in their own control.
Body-worn cameras, fixed cameras, and interview rooms generate storage demands that on-premises systems were never built to handle.
Once workloads move, spend creeps up through oversized resources and forgotten services, and the annual total lands above what anyone budgeted.
Each SaaS tool brings its own licenses, users, and permissions for IT to manage, and the overhead grows with every purchase.
Strategic Communications brings more than 30 years of IT and cloud experience to every engagement, with certified engineers on staff and an AWS Government Services Competency behind our work with public sector agencies. Whether your agency is new to SaaS and cloud or already a seasoned buyer, we can handle installation, setup, and configuration of every new system on your roadmap
Cloud-Ready Assessment. An AWS Cloud-Ready Assessment reviews your applications, infrastructure, and data to identify which workloads can move now, which need work first, and which should stay where they are. It feeds directly into the Migrate and Maintain/Tolerate decisions in your roadmap..
Migration, Setup, and Configuration. Our cloud engineers plan and carry out the move, then set up and configure each system so it’s ready for the people who depend on it. The sequence follows your roadmap, so mission-critical systems move on a schedule your operations can absorb.
AWS GovCloud for Justice Data. Video, evidence, and records storage and retrieval in AWS GovCloud, with all data fully in agency control. Storage scales with your camera program instead of forcing another hardware refresh.
Financial Optimization (FinOps). We right-size annual AWS GovCloud expenditures and lower maintenance costs by consolidating systems you no longer need.
Cybersecurity for Video and Data. Secure systems that protect video and data management environments, built around compliance mandates like CJIS and the realities of a 24x7x365 operation.
A police department, a jail, and a court system rarely start their move to the cloud from the same place. Law enforcement agencies often begin because body-worn camera and evidence video is outgrowing on-premises storage, while corrections teams tend to start with jail and offender management systems that have to stay up around the clock and the patchwork of subsystems built around them. Courts usually focus on keeping case files and video secure while making it easier to share records with prosecutors and supervision agencies.
From patrol to dispatch to the records room, we help police and sheriff’s departments modernize the systems officers depend on: body-worn cameras, CAD/RMS, drones as first responders, gunshot detection, and the infrastructure behind it all.
Correctional facilities are modernizing everything from EHR reporting to contraband management, inmate monitoring, and full jail and offender management systems. Strategic Communications helps facilities modernize safely and efficiently.
Courts, DAs, and probation offices need case management that works, app-based probation and parole tools, and reentry solutions that reduce recidivism. We support the full journey from filing to reentry.
The Mission Readiness & Modernization Program reviews your applications, infrastructure, and cloud posture, then gives your leadership team a two- to five-year roadmap that shows what to migrate, when, and what it should cost to run. It’s provided at no cost to the agency, with no long-term contract attached.
