Williamson County

What to Know:

• Budget pressure, foundational upgrades and cautious AI adoption are shaping near-term decisions.
• Williamson County is managing major efforts including Workday, a new dispatch and records management system, fiber expansion and a second 911 center.
• Both IT leaders told vendors to be prepared for cooperative purchasing, security review and formal intake processes.

Travis County Director of IT Ralph Warren and Williamson County CIO Richard Semple will speak about their organizations’ strategic IT priorities, current initiatives and long-term goals at an upcoming Industry Insider — Texas member briefing. Here’s a look at the two counties and their IT plans.

Next week’s members-only event in Austin will feature technology leaders from Travis County and Williamson County.

What to Know:

• The current DEMS manages about 350 terabytes of digital evidence and processes about 9,000 cases per year.
• The county supports more than 49 law enforcement agencies and 650 defense attorneys.
• The county will hold a series of virtual vendor demonstrations in mid-September.

The county is holding multiple online informational sessions for software providers from Nov. 12-15 as part of a request for information. Sessions are to be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis.

As the county uses the same computer-aided dispatch for law enforcement, fire and EMS, proposed systems must be multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional.