CFARS (registration) system

[lazyworm]

(placing this thread in the tech forum, but hopefully it may have some 2A/legal use)

Anybody know how the CFARS system was build?
Anybody know the software procurement or development cycle works within the DOJ?

In other AW registration threads, some have commented that the system was designed to discourage registration and designed to be as manual as possible.
Is that something we can proof from a technical side?

Just thinking out loud, regardless if the DOJ has an in-house software team or if they bid the project out, they must have some kind of design specification on what the system should look like, how it should be built etc. There would be documents on when the project started, how it progressed, how much it costs etc.

Additional info that us techies can also draw a lot of info from would be things like database design, system capacity sizing, design redundancy/resiliency.

Are these documents public record? Perhaps we can investigate how the system was put together as legal proof of their inherent 2A hostility?

[lone shooter]

I don't know the details other than built by the lowest bidder.

[SkyHawk]

CFARS - actual photo from an insider**









**may not be an actual photo

[lone shooter]

^ Isn't that FPs basement?

[lazyworm]

I don't know the details other than built by the lowest bidder.

Do you have any documentation on the bidding process? Wouldn't that require an RFP of some sort? Is the RFP a public document?

[lazyworm]

CFARS - actual photo from an insider**


**may not be an actual photo

sorry guys, I'm trying to ask serious questions here. This may be an unexplored avenue that gets us more ammo.

[CandG]

Perhaps this is helpful. It's DOJ's budget request to pay for the BBRAW CFARS process.

http://web1a.esd.dof.ca.gov/Documents/bcp/1718/FY1718_ORG0820_BCP889.pdf

California Justice Information Services
In order to implement the requirements of SB 880 and AB 1135, the following information technology resources will be needed:
• PL/SQL Development Consultants ($190,080)
The consultant developer(s) will perform at the highest expertise level to design, develop, test, and implement the enhancements to the application; assist the state and consultant project managers with planning work activities; review technical documentation created by less skilled programmers; create design specifications; develop the most complex framework and components; perform system integration and performance testing; and provide the first critical months of production support and problem resolution for the new and enhanced systems.

Some other tech info: The web server creates the dynamic markup using a Java-enabled webserver. The realtime form error-checking and such is javascript, and does not appear to have ANY browser compatibility code in it whatsoever. Apparently you have to spend more than $190k to get that.