Differences Between Merge and Move Case Requests

There are a couple big differences between a merge request and a move request.

Merge Request

• Combines all demographic information (photos, aliases, stated IDs, etc.)
• Only the requester of the merge knows what supervising user is selected when the request is created
• If the wrong supervising user is selected it can create quite a headache to sort out after processing
• New offender ID and case IDs are created
• Possible to search on pre-merge offender and case IDs
• No further action required once merge is processed

Move Case Request

• Moves a single ICOTS case from one offender profile to another
• No demographic information is copied or merged
• Every state involved in the move request knows what supervising user was selected when the request was created
• Case ID does not change
• If one of offenders has no ICOTS cases after the move, the national office will have to delete the record manually