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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, working under co-directors Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work.1 Bill Hamilton served as project manager at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.2 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.1

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  1. 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 ↩︎

  2. 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. ↩︎