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All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: The CWDS Infrastructure team and the California Department of Technology (CDT) have scheduled maintenance for the CAD/Business Objects (BO) servers. The maintenance windows are scheduled for the following environments: Training environment: Tuesday, February 10, 2026, beginning at 12:00 N...

In late February, an updated CARES V1 Scope Summary was shared with counties. The goal of the Scope Summary, in combination with the CWS-CARES Data Dictionary and product demos, is to provide counties with a better picture of CARES Version 1. The Scope Summary includes a summary of each Service Area, key functionalities of each Milestone, and th...

Data Quality Portal Welcome to the CWS Data Quality Portal. You can find all CWS data quality related information and documents here. Register and login to get access to the Issue Priority List. You must register with your county work email or state work email domain. Public email domains are not allowed. If you have t...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: To prepare for CWS-CARES Mock Cycles and Production Simulation, the CWS-CARES Project will begin an automated process to end-date inactive CWS/CMS user logins. This effort helps ensure that only active users are set up with access in CWS-CARES.  This process identifies CWS/CMS user logins that have not bee...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: Effective January 29, 2026, CARES-Live 2.8.35 Release is Scheduled to Move into Production The CARES-Live team has scheduled release activity that will interrupt connectivity to the CARES-Live application. The release activity will begin at 5:00 PM on Thursday, January 29, 2026, and conclude on Friday, Jan...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Tuesday, February 3, 2026, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, an...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: In this Weekly Digest (click the link for more information): Final Reminder: Register for the CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefing #5 _______ Final Reminder: Register for the CWS-CARES Stakeholde...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, January 31, 2026, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 10:00 AM. During the maintenance window, CDT will apply Standard Monthly OS Security Patches to SBCS Infrastructure Servers. There is no anticipate...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, beginning at 6:00 PM and concluding at 10:00 PM. During the maintenance window, CDT will apply system security updates to SBCS Infrastructure Netscalers. CDT is informing everyone to log ...