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Government

Sep. 4, 2002

Forget Wireless; Wired Would be Fine

SAN FRANCISCO - If Linda Klee, the top administrator in the San Francisco district attorney's office, wants to calculate her department's conviction rates, she has two choices: She can count the cases by hand and come up with the percentage, or she can file a request with an overworked programmer who will use the county's mainframe computer and get back to her in about two months.

By Robert Selna
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - If Linda Klee, the top administrator in the San Francisco district attorney's office, wants to calculate her department's conviction rates, she has two choices: She can count the cases by hand and come up with the percentage, or she can file a request with an overworked programmer who wil...

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