State Government CIO Community Information Sharing and Collaboration Initiative

This program is funded under both the Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program (Byrne Competitive Program) and the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program. Authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2009 (Pub. L. 111-8), the Byrne Competitive Program helps local communities improve the capacity of state and local justice systems and provides for national support efforts including training and technical assistance programs strategically targeted to address local needs. The JAG Program (42 U.S.C. 3751(a)) is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions, and JAG funds support all components of the criminal justice system. The JAG Program authorization also provides that 'the Attorney General may reserve not more than 5 percent, to be granted to 1 or more states or units of local government for 1 or more of the purposes specified in section 3751 of this title, pursuant to his determination that the same is necessary ' (1) to combat, address, or otherwise respond to precipitous or extraordinary increases in crime, or in a type or types of crime.' (42 U.S.C. 3756).

The National Justice Information Sharing Initiative, administered by the Office of Justice Programs' (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), helps improve criminal justice systems and provides national programs and national efforts such as training and technical assistance to strategically address the needs of state and local justice systems and communities.

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers will support BJA's justice information sharing activities through education, outreach, and technical assistance to and from the states' Chief Information Officer (CIO) community. They will collaborate to support the development and implementation of policy, planning, standards, and architectures that serve statewide coordination of criminal justice activities with other state-level and national activities and programs. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers will support mechanisms and activities that enable better coordination across levels of government and lines of business; provide more effective dialogue through issue briefs, presentations, or online communications; and serve as a liaison between state and federal partners.

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