Now, the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office is looking for its second-ever CIO through a continuous recruitment.
Mohammed Al Rawi’s six-year run with the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office came to a close Aug. 29, when he stepped away to focus on sharing his company’s purpose-built case management platform, ZLS.
The incoming departmental CIO will be stepping into a vastly different department than it was in 2019. Al Rawi was a driving force behind the shift away from paper-based case management — a move that significantly reduced the weekslong wait times for attorneys and their clients.
“Now the office is seeking the next technology leader to carry this mission forward,” Al Rawi said in a LinkedIn post. “This role is unlike any other in government IT; it’s an opportunity to serve in the largest public defender office in the nation, where every system you strengthen and every innovation you drive directly impacts people in moments of crisis.”
More information about the executive-level position is available below.
Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office
Departmental Chief Information Officer
$163,997-$255,048 per year
Application deadline: Continuous
This position reports directly to the chief deputy public defender and is responsible for the “planning, design, development, implementation and maintenance of the office’s automated systems.”
Strategic initiatives overseen by the CIO include sustaining and advancing the Client Case Management System (CCMS), integrating digital evidence management within the CCMS, and strengthening the data flows between justice system stakeholders, among many others.
Desirable qualifications for this role include:
- Executive leadership in large enterprises (legal and/or public sector preferred) with mission-critical operations
- Proven delivery of enterprise digital transformation (cloud, software as a service, data platforms and evidence systems)
- Experience with justice/court systems (Odyssey, evidence.com, digital records, retention and privacy)
- Track record of cybersecurity improvements
- Leadership in analytics: workload/complexity models, dashboards, and data-driven and evidence-based resource planning
