Public Safety Data Tech — Critical Records & Alerts

King County Sheriff's Office; Renton (WA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare options

Pension plan

Paid time off

Job summary

King County Sheriff's Office is seeking a Data Technician to support critical communication and records management between deputies, courts, and law enforcement databases.

The role requires handling time-sensitive criminal justice data, ensuring accuracy, and maintaining confidentiality across multiple information systems. You will work in a 24/7 unit providing essential data support to field officers and external agencies.

Qualifications

• Providing excellent customer service in a high-volume, high-pressure, stressful work environment.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Performing multiple tasks, with constantly changing priorities with a high level of accuracy
• Producing error-free, reliable results by consistent checking, and focused attention to detail.
• Working productively without close supervision.
• Effective written communication skills; ability to listen and take accurate detailed notes from oral communications with writing skills sufficient to transcribe, compose, edit and maintain a variety of documents, reports and correspondences using correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Experience using standard office equipment such as laptops/computers, copiers, and/or multi-line telephone.

Responsibilities

• Provide time critical criminal history information to police officers and criminal justice agencies.
• Assure that locally generated information carried on County, State, national and international computer systems is complete, accurate and up to date by researching, entering, modifying, verifying, and deleting data in a timely manner.
• Maintain electronic and paper files on wanted, missing or dangerous persons, stolen property, warrants and court orders.
• Assist law enforcement officers in establishing the true identity of persons or property by comparing detailed descriptions to those previously on file, identify persons or property which are listed as "wanted" by state or national crime information computers, confirm whether or not warrants for specific wanted people are in hand and assist in proper identification of individuals booked under false names.
• Protect confidentiality of information by assuring that data is provided only to appropriate law enforcement and criminal justice personnel.
• Audit and validate all locally entered information by double checking it for completeness and accuracy.

Job description

King County Sheriff's Office is seeking a Data Technician to support critical communication and records management between deputies, courts, and law enforcement databases.

The role requires handling time-sensitive criminal justice data, ensuring accuracy, and maintaining confidentiality across multiple information systems. You will work in a 24/7 unit providing essential data support to field officers and external agencies.