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ELVIS updates and GRID card update - July 2, 2025
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Angela Sargent Posts: 2857
6/23/2025
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This morning, we pushed an update to ELVIS that contained many bug fixes as well as some changes.
First and foremost, for those agencies using grid cards, anyone with a grid card older than 12 months will begin seeing a warning on July 2nd that their grid card has expired and they have 30 days to generate a new grid card. This functionality works exactly like the password expiration warning. It will appear at the top in a yellow banner. Similar to passwords, users that sign in using an expired grid card will be forced to generate a new grid card before they can access the rest of the system.
Secondly, some functionality that is outside of the scope of our grant funding has been removed. The entirety of our funding comes from the Florida Department of Transportation through a NHTSA grant to improve traffic records (specifically crash and citation records) by providing driver license and vehicle record exports to law enforcement officers so they can both view and (ideally) import those records into their forms. Anything outside of the support of that mission is technically outside of the scope of the project.
It's worth noting that these were good and worthy features that we and many of our agencies all loved. Unfortunately, they required both software maintenance and hardware demands (CPU, bandwidth, etc.) beyond what we could continue to support. As such, we've removed them, but they may resurface again in the future if we have an opportunity to expand our funding and/or the scope of our grant.
These features are:
- Partial Tag/Name searches inside old ELVIS records
- Public Notes (for both drivers and vehicles)
ELVIS is a three-person team that supports over 290 law enforcement agencies across the state of Florida by providing FCIC/NCIC access free of charge thanks to our grant funding, and we want to continue to serve as many of our users as efficiently as possible within the scope of our grant. We encourage all of our agencies to continue letting us know any time you have a feature request, and we will continue to do our best to make ELVIS the best product we can. We may not be able to support every feature asked for, but we will absolutely try.
Thanks to FDOT for our grant funding and all of you for your support and patience, ELVIS has existed since 2013, and we look forward to many more years to come!
Thank you all,
The ELVIS Team
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