Parties

"Parties" refer to entities that interact with the sheriff's office. Parties can include citizens, businesses, government agencies, or any other entities that have dealings with the sheriff's office for legal processes.

In the Sheriff2k program, users have the ability to add new entities, known as "Parties," via the "PartyForm." Occasionally, users may unintentionally create duplicate parties, resulting in multiple instances of the same entity within the program. This duplication can lead to confusion, especially when multiple records or postings are associated with these duplicate parties.

For instance, if a user mistakenly creates two separate "John Doe" entries and assigns different postings to each of these duplicates, it becomes challenging to reconcile and make sense of these postings in reports. This issues becomes even more problematic when there are more than just two postings linked to these duplicate parties.

Grandjean & Braverman anticipates this problem by