There are enough bad drivers on the road with computer errors leaving a bunch of drivers behind the wheel who should have had their licences suspended. But that's what's happened in Dakota County, Minnesota. The Country has transfered its licencing onto a new system - the Minnesota Court Information System. Due to computer and human error, some 200 people who should not be driving, are still licenced.
At least half the snafus were due to data entry mistakes and other human errors. A table of offense codes on the MNCIS system differed from that of the county's previous computer set-up, causing mix-ups as clerks went through and made manual corrections.
Matters were made worse by a computer patch for another problem, which caused other reporting problems.
Court staff are now manually entering the data, working their way through more than 20,000 cases. And all 87 Minnesota counties apparently have been asked to double check their records to ensure no more bad drivers have won an unintentional reprieve.
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