Software Development for County Governments
Software Development for County Governments
Modernizing case management, integrating departmental systems, and building the tools commercial platforms leave out.
Counties run more systems than any other local government, and the oldest ones tend to be the most important: case management in human services, justice systems that feed courts and prosecutors, property systems that drive the tax roll. Replacement is often a multi-year program, and the work in between is integration and targeted development.
What county environments look like
- Statewide systems that county staff use but do not control, with local interfaces around them
- Case management platforms in child welfare, behavioral health, and adult services, each with confidentiality rules
- Justice systems linking sheriff, probation, courts, and the district attorney
- Property systems spanning assessor, recorder, and tax collector
- Legacy applications written decades ago, still carrying business rules that exist nowhere else
Where HQT helps
- Incremental modernization using the strangler pattern, so functions move to new systems one at a time rather than in a single cutover
- Extraction and documentation of business rules buried in legacy code, which is the most valuable output of any modernization
- Integration between departmental systems and statewide platforms, with reconciliation and monitoring
- Client-facing portals for applications, document submission, appointments, and status
- Mobile tools for field staff in inspections, public works, and social services
- Accessibility and plain-language work on anything a resident touches
How an engagement usually starts
Often as a subcontractor on a larger modernization program, or directly with a department that needs an integration or a portal the prime vendor will not build. We document everything we extract and deliver code into the county's own repositories.