About Us

The Information Technology Department (IT) is an internal services department of the county, which manages and maintains all county data and telecommunication systems and their supporting infrastructure.

A primary goal of the Information Technology Department is to facilitate technologies of specific departments and other entities throughout and outside the county enterprise through use of the county network. This network provides immediate access to information that may be stored anywhere within the county infrastructure. It allows the shared use of storage, printers, modems, and other devices, and grants access into other organizations and global informational resources. It is available to all users at all times. And appropriately, users have come to rely upon its existence.

As the differing technology disciplines - data, voice and video - continue to converge into a single IP-based infrastructure, the county, through IT, has proactively begun development of an integrated phone system that ties not only the campus sites together, but also connects remote locations.

The IT department utilizes several service providers to facilitate connectivity between sites and the county network, non-county networks (such as the state of Michigan network) and the Internet, including Ameritech, AT&T and the ISD.