The Information Management Office (IMO) was established in 1999. The office's
goal is to create and maintain an infrastructure that will allow county
departments, county employees and the general public to share and to store
information digitally. The office has the two main focuses: GIS Program and
Network Technologies.
GIS Program
Roughly 75% of all information generated or stored by a county government can be
geographically referenced by street address, parcel identification number or
some other location attribute.
The central goal of the GIS Program is to develop an enterprise system that
will allow DeKalb County Government to improve its function by enabling access
to spatial information. The County wide base map and property information are
available via the County’s intranet as well as the County’s internet site.
County departments and the public can benefit from GIS and the integrating
framework that location-based information provides.
Network Technologies
The Information Management Office supports the county’s WAN (wide area
network). IMO assists departments with hardware and software issues as well as
systems implementation.