An administrative model for close monitoring and managing high risk individuals

The public expects central government to have immediate knowledge of the co ndition and circumstances of certain vulnerable or dangerous individuals su ch as insanity acquittees, and to take action in individual cases to protec t the individual and the public. Therefore, such persons conditionally rele ased to community settings require an unusual degree of close monitoring an d management. Being immediately aware of the condition and circumstances of its assignees, together with other duties of a board or commission respons ible for that monitoring and management, is largely an information manageme nt function. The Psychiatric Security Review Board in Oregon is used to illustrate this unique mission, operations, and information management. In this paper, the Psychiatric Security Review Board is described in terms of its core and sec ondary businesses, together with a model information system that is based o n information and information management processes actually employed by the Board. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.