---
category: "Technologists"
created: 2024-04-25
updated: 2026-10-14
tags:
  - Person
  - PROMIS
  - INSLAW
summary: "Frederick G. Watts was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team; no further biographical details have been identified."
---
Frederick G. Watts was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]], working under co-directors [[Joan E. Jacoby]] and [[Charles R. Work]].[^2] [[Bill Hamilton]] served as project manager at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]].[^1] A May 1971 system overview lists Watts as chief of the Grand Jury Section of the Superior Court Division of the [[U.S. Attorney's office|U.S. Attorney's Office]].[^2]

### Footnotes

[^1]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report.* House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992.
[^2]: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., *System Overview and Report Formats for PROMIS* (May 1971), prepared for the District of Columbia Government Office of Crime Analysis under LEAA Grant No. 70-DF-047, note 1 to the passage on the design team, NCJ 32469. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/32469NCJRS.pdf