Flex-Check CCH
For repository directors who have watched enough modernization projects fail
Replace the core.
Keep everything else.
Flex-Check CCH modernizes your criminal-history system of record without replacing every system around it. Courts, message switches, and AFIS investments stay in place. They just get better data.
The Problem
Every state needs a modern criminal-history system. The traditional path to get there is broken.
Most state CCH system systems are transaction-centric, not person-centric. The same person exists as multiple unlinked records. Arrests don’t connect to dispositions. The record is technically there, it is just scattered, fragmented, and unreliable.
The path to fixing it has historically been a $15–40M, 3–5 year ordeal with a near-certain chance of scope creep and political fallout. So broken systems keep running. And the foundation of some of the most consequential decisions the justice system makes — who can buy a firearm, who can work with children — stays unreliable.
Replace the one component every state shares
Let everything else keep working.
TSC’s approach inverts the standard model. Instead of replacing every system in a state’s criminal-justice ecosystem, Flex-Check CCH replaces the core person-centric record lifecycle and connects to everything else through a config-driven translation layer. Courts, AFIS systems, message switches, and financial platforms all stay in place. The surrounding ecosystem keeps working. It just gets better data.
Two Approaches
The same goal.
A fundamentally different path.
What Competitors Do
Propose a monolithic replacement of the full criminal-justice ecosystem.
Timeline
3 to 5 years
Cost
$15 to 40M
Integration
Custom for every connection
What TSC Does
Build the person-centric CCH system and connect to existing infrastructure through config-driven mappings.
Timeline
Projected 18 months
Cost
Dramatically lower
Integration
No system rip-and-replace
The integration cost advantage is real and structural: a new state data connection is a SQL mapping file, not a software development project. Every improvement to the translation engine benefits all state deployments at once. Projected 18-month timeline is modeled from a completed proof-of-concept, not yet measured from a delivered CCH.
How It Works
Replace the core record.
Keep the ecosystem.
Modernize without the gamble.
01
TSC implements the CCH system — the master person index, arrest and disposition linkage, the full criminal-history lifecycle — as the new system of record.
02
The translation layer maps your existing data formats. Courts, AFIS, and message switches connect through configuration, not custom code.
03
Flex-Check Transform digitizes historical paper records that never made it into the old system, feeding structured data directly into the new CCH system.
04
The surrounding ecosystem keeps working. Every agency, portal, and system that depends on the CCH keeps working. They just get better data.
The Cost of the Old Way
Another full-platform replacement. Another 3 to 5 years. And a system that’s already becoming legacy by the time it ships.
Monolithic replacement projects that consume political capital and deliver years late.
Custom integrations that cost millions and break when adjacent systems update.
A new CCH system that is already the next generation’s technical debt by the time it goes live.
A person-centric record that’s still not a reality, because the integration cost made it prohibitive.
The Outcome
A complete, person-centric record projected to deploy in 18 months, not five years.
States that deploy Flex-Check CCH get a criminal-history record where arrests, charges, dispositions, sentences, and supervision all link to the same person, every time. The record is reliable. Background check results reflect reality. Modernization happened without disrupting the systems, agencies, and workflows that depend on the CCH.