December 20, 2024
Communications
All SPOCs:
Effective Monday, December 23, 2024, the CWDS Office has decided to relocate the following areas/pages from the public-facing CWDS website and move them to the County Logon area (https://cwds.ca.gov/):
- County Info | State Recognized County Administrator List
- County Info | Regional Chair page
- County Info | 24 x 7 Site List
- Data Quality Portal | Data Quality Workgroup Leads list
- Data Quality Portal | CWS/CMS Data Quality Dashboard
- Probation Users | “Who to Contact” document
- Probation Users | SPOC Guide
- County Contacts Page (moved to County Logon area on December 16, 2024)
With this change, users are required to log in using a valid email address that is recognized by the organization's email domain.
Users attempting to access these pages will be prompted to enter their login credentials for the CWDS website if they are not already logged in. This change will take effect on Monday, December 23, 2024.
Action Required
No action is required. Users can sign up with a valid organizational email domain to access the pages listed above, as well as any other sections of the CWDS website that require recognized login credentials.
Please contact the CWDS Customer Relations mailbox if you have any questions regarding this action.
December 16, 2024
Communications
All SPOCs:
The CWDS Office has decided to remove the CWDS Contacts pages from the public-facing website, available to all users. Instead, to view this contact information, a user must first log in with a valid email address recognized by an organizational email domain. A user trying to access this ‘Contacts’ section will be required to enter log-in credentials for the CWDS website if they have not already logged in. This change was implemented today, December 16, 2024.
Action Required
No action required. Users may self-register to ‘Behind County Login’ by signing up with a valid organizational email domain to access the County Contacts, and all other sections of the CWDS website requiring recognized login credentials.
October 30, 2024
Communications
All SPOCs:
We are pleased to announce an update to the CWDS Planning Roadmap posted on the CWDS public website. The updated roadmap illustrates planned releases in the following systems: CARES-Live, CARES RFA and CWS/CMS. The updated planning roadmap includes CARES Version 1 (V1) milestone descriptions, critical training and implementation activities, and Extended User Scenario Testing (EUST) periods. In addition to the CWDS Planning Roadmap, we are posting a high-level roadmap focusing on the CARES V1 Project Lifecycle.
Accessing the new page:
- The CWDS Planning Roadmap and high-level CWS-CARES V1 Project Lifecycle is located under the ‘Stakeholder Resources’ dropdown, under the ‘Project Reporting’ link.
- Under ‘Project Reporting’ you will find the ‘CWDS Planning Roadmap & Timeline’ link.
Roadmaps are subject to change and will be updated as needed. For a more detailed status of product development please see our latest CWS-CARES Monthly Legislative Update.
Action Required
If you have any questions, need clarification, or have any accessibility issues, please do not hesitate to contact CWDS Communications.
