HTE Provides Sierra Vista Police Department, Arizona With Integrated Public Safety Software Solution.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LAKE MARY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001

HTE Inc. (Nasdaq:HTEI), a leading provider of enterprise-wide software, Internet, and wireless solutions for public sector organizations and utilities, announced today that the Sierra Vista Police Department, Arizona signed a contract valued at more than $490,000 to license HTE's integrated public safety and justice software and services.

HTE will provide software and services that will fully automate the department's operations, increase productivity and the flow of information among various public safety departments.

The contract will provide the Sierra Vista Police Department with HTE's CAD V(TM), Alarm Billing, CRIMES(R) Records Management System, Field Incident Reporting software, and a mugshot interface to the CRIMES Records Management System. The mobile piece of this project will include providing wireless access from the field units to the HTE CAD V system as well as adding the ability for Automatic Vehicle Location. The Sierra Vista Police Department has 64 sworn officers and provides service to 40,000 residents.

"When we decided to start looking for a new software solution provider, our main concern was to find a system that would integrate with our mobile data computers, provide mapping, AVL and NCIC access. After looking at nearly a dozen providers, it was clear that HTE's combination of integration, functionality, professionalism and product knowledge would be able to accommodate all of our needs," said Captain Tom Alinen of the Sierra Vista Police Department.

To further enhance the safety of the community, Sierra Vista also purchased HTE's digitized mapping including CAD mapping and CRIMES pin mapping. This software will allow the department to provide an immediate visual location of any reported incident and analyze historical data to determine trends.

"The Sierra Vista Police Department was in need of a robust system that would allow them to integrate everything from computer aided dispatch and records management to mobile data and wireless field reporting. HTE's integrated public safety and justice solution will help revolutionize the way their law enforcement agency responds to the community," said Del King, HTE's head of

public safety and justice.

HTE's state-of-the-art computer aided dispatch software uses multiple computer platforms and cooperative processing technology to provide dispatchers with up to 30 live task areas for dispatch, incident and unit status, database inquiry, NCIC access, and other tasks. HTE's CAD fully integrates with HTE's Integrated Mapping and CRIMES Records Management System to provide a complete, integrated law enforcement solution.

HTE Inc.

HTE, Inc., a proven leader in government information technologies, provides a broad range of innovative software solutions to more than 2,100 government offices, agencies and utility companies throughout North America. The company's products address the wireless computing requirements of a rapidly changing public sector market and support the end-to-end delivery of e-government access to citizens.

Founded in 1981, the company is headquartered near Orlando, Florida. Additional information about HTE's products is available at www.hteinc.com or by calling HTE Marketing Services at 1.800.727.8088.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected are discussed from time to time in reports filed by HTE with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including risks summarized in HTE's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K. HTE undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement for events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.