Justice Information Sharing: Organizations and Case Studies

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) provides innovative leadership to federal, state, local, and tribal justice systems, by disseminating state-of-the art knowledge and practices across America, and providing grants for the implementation of these crime fighting strategies. Because most of the responsibility for crime control and prevention falls to law enforcement officers in states, cities, and neighborhoods, the federal government can be effective in these areas only to the extent that it can enter into partnerships with these officers. Therefore, OJP does not directly carry out law enforcement and justice activities. Instead, OJP works in partnership with the justice community to identify the most pressing crime-related challenges confronting the justice system and to provide information, training, coordination, and innovative strategies and approaches for addressing these challenges.

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) aids the member organizations of Global Advisory Commitee (GAC), and the people they serve, through a series of important initiatives. These include the facilitation of the GAC Working Groups. The Global Infrastructure/Standards Working Group (GISWG) recommended that OJP form the Global XML Structure Task Force (GXSTF) to identify data requirements, explore XML concepts, and apply XML best practices to the design and implement of the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). This recommendation was accepted and today, the GXSTF is composed of government and industry domain experts (law enforcement, courts, and corrections), technical managers, and engineers.

Since 1984 the Office of Justice Programs (OPJ) has provided federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, improve the criminal and juvenile justice systems, increase knowledge about crime and related issues, and assist crime victims. OJP's senior management team - comprised of the Assistant Attorney General (AAG), the Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG), and the five bureau heads - works together with dedicated managers and line staff to carry out this mission.

The Assistant Attorney General is responsible for overall management and oversight of OJP. The AAG sets policy, ensures that OJP policies and programs reflect the priorities of the President, the Attorney General, and the Congress. The AAG promotes coordination among the bureaus and offices within OJP.

The bureaus are the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. OJP also includes the Community Capacity Development Office, the Office of the Police Corps and Law Enforcement Education. OJP's American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Affairs Desk, coordinates AI/AN-related programmatic activity across the bureaus and program offices and serves as an information resource center for American Indian and Alaskan Native criminal justice interests.

Seven other offices within OJP provide agency-wide support. They are the Office of Communications, the Office of Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Office, the Office for Civil Rights, the Office of Budget and Management Services, the Office of the Comptroller, and the Office of General Counsel. Additionally, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) provides information services in support of the bureaus and program offices.

OJP Website: https://www.ojp.gov/

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit applied research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. GTRI employs around 1,300 people, and is involved in approximately $100 million in research annually for more than 200 clients in industry and government. GTRI's research spans a variety of disciplines, including national defense, homeland security, public health, education, and economic development.

Major customers for GTRI research include United States Department of Defense agencies, the state of Georgia, non-defense federal agencies, and private industry. Overall, contracts and grants from Department of Defense agencies account for approximately 80% of GTRI’s total expenditures. Their goal is to create solutions through innovation, on time and on budget. They assist clients in federal, state, local and international government agencies, industrial firms, academic institutions and private organizations. More than 70 percent of their research personnel hold advanced degrees, and all are committed to an independent, unbiased approach to solving problems. They also offer association with Georgia Institute of Technology colleagues who can contribute additional talent and knowledge for meeting technological and engineering challenges.

Georgia Tech Research Institute: http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/

SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, is a nonprofit membership organization created by and for the states. Since 1969, SEARCH's primary objective has been to identify and help solve the information management problems of state and local justice agencies confronted with the need to exchange information with other local agencies, state agencies, agencies in other states, or with the federal government.

SEARCH is governed by a Membership Group comprised of one gubernatorial appointee from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as eight at-large appointees selected by SEARCH's Chair. Members are primarily state-level justice officials responsible for operational decisions and policymaking concerning the management of criminal justice information, particularly criminal history information.

A staff of professionals works from SEARCH headquarters in Sacramento, California, to implement solutions identified by the Membership Group. Through its staff and with the direction of the Membership, SEARCH provides justice agencies with diverse products, services and resources through three program areas: Systems and Technology, Law and Policy, and Research and Statistics.

Funding for SEARCH activities is provided by annual fees from Member states for the operation of the consortium and Board of Directors; grants from various U.S. Justice agencies; state grants; and federal, state and local contracts.

SEARCH Website: http://www.search.org/

The NLETS was created by the principal law enforcement agencies of the states nearly 35 years ago. Since the founding, NLETS role has evolved from being primarily an interstate telecommunications service for law enforcement to a more broad-based network servicing the justice community at the local, state, and federal levels.

It is now the pre-eminent interstate law enforcement network in the nation for the exchange of law enforcement and related justice information. The mission of NLETS is to provide, within a secure environment, an international justice telecommunications capability and information services that will benefit to the highest degree, the safety, the security, and the preservation of human life and the protection of property. NLETS assists those national and international governmental agencies and other organizations with similar missions that enforce or aid in enforcing local, state, or international laws or ordinances.

NLETS hopes to continue to be the premier provider of the network, system, and services that will support and encourage a totally standardized, integrated, international justice system. Acting primarily as a network provider, and to the degree required, a data warehouse, NLETS will endeavor to serve every stratum of the justice and public safety communities. NLETS has led the effort to advocate for the use of XML technology for law enforcement purposes.

NLETS Website: http://www.nlets.org/

The Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council (LEITSC) is established to address the issue of information sharing across disciplinary lines from the law enforcement community to public safety to other social service areas.

LEITSC is comprised of four of the nation's leading law enforcement associations:

International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)

National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)

National Sheriffs' Association (NSA)

Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)

The LEITSC project began in 2002 with funding (Grant No. 2002-LD-BX-0002) from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance and continued in 2003 with funding (Grant No. 2003-MX-BX-0068) through a collaborative effort between the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Institute of Justice. LEITSC is currently solely funded by the Bureau of Justice (Grant No. 2006-LD-BX-K005) and continues to work in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice.

LEITSC has proven its strength and commitment to this endeavor by providing access to law enforcement experts to give input to standards development initiatives, creating outreach and training opportunities to keep law enforcement executives engaged in the process, and continuing to leverage collaboration and work that is currently underway to address the information technology needs of the law enforcement community. The law enforcement community understands the value of using information technology standards in their technology implementation , and over the last few years, significant progress has been made in the development and implementation of information technology standards to advance information sharing.

Projects within the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global), such as the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), continue to evolve and develop standards that aim to ease information sharing across disciplinary lines from the law enforcement community to public safety to other social service areas. Through all of this, LEITSC has continued to promote information technology standards by exercising leadership and has brought the issues associated with information sharing to the forefront of the law enforcement executive's agenda.

LEITSC Website: http://www.theiacp.org/

The mission of NCSC is to improve the administration of justice through leadership and service to state courts, and courts around the world. Through original research, consulting services, publications, and national educational programs, NCSC offers solutions that enhance court operations with the latest technology; collects and interprets the latest data on court operations nationwide; and provides information on proven "best practices" for improving court operations.

NCSC also disseminates information to state court leaders on key national policy issues, and helps advocate their policies with Congress as well as supporting several prestigious national organizations. For more than 30 years, court leaders have called on the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) for up-to-date information and hands-on assistance that helps them better serve the public.

Through original research, consulting services, publications, and national educational programs, NCSC offers solutions that enhance court operations with the latest technology; collects and interprets the latest data on court operations nationwide; and provides information on proven "best practices" for improving court operations in many areas, such as civil case management.

NCSC are active advocates of the use of Global Justice XML Data Model in state courts. In fact, they designed Wayfarer which is an exploration and discovery tool to help us navigate the often intimidating size of the GJXDM. The National Center for State Courts is also the publisher of the Court Technology Bulletin (CTB).

The CTB started publishing in 1978 and has been a leading source of information on the application of technology to the court community since that time. The CTB has now gone ''hi-tech'' as a continually updated online resource available in a variety of formats like HTML, plain text, RSS news feeds and e-mail summaries, customizable by topic and sent periodically to subscribers at no charge. Judges and court staff, or anyone interested in court technology, who want to do their jobs better by staying informed on subjects such as GJXDM, courtroom technology, conferences and education, and new trends in technology are encouraged to read the CTB.

NCSC Website: http://www.ncsc.org

NCSC GJXDM Page: http://www.ncsc.org/Services-and-Experts/Technology-tools/National-stan…

Wayfarer: http://apps.ncsc.org/niem/

CTB Online: http://courttechbulletin.blogspot.com/

The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) system serves as the "honest broker" offering support, research findings, and technological expertise to help State and local law enforcement and corrections personnel perform their duties more safely and efficiently. NLETC was created in 1994 as a component of the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ's) Office of Science and Technology and the system is now assisted in its work by a national and regional advisory councils.

The NLECTC system consists of facilities across the country that are collocated The NLECTC system seeks to help law enforcement and corrections agencies through fostering the development and use of new and existing technologies. To do so, it has to identify and understand the needs and requirements of these agencies. A national advisory council and regional advisory councils that are attached to each center are important to this process. They form a bridge between the criminal justice community and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Office of Science and Technology. Across this bridge flows information about the workaday worlds of policing and corrections, and their operational needs. NIJ uses this information to help fashion and adjust its technology research and development programs to meet those needs.

Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Advisory Council (LECTAC) LECTAC is the primary "big picture" link between the law enforcement and corrections community and NIJ's science and technology programs. Council members are appointed by NLECTC based on their records of distinguished service and include representatives from Federal, State, local, and international criminal justice agencies and organizations. Working to strengthen ties between NIJ and the law enforcement and corrections community, LECTAC reviews and analyzes the present and future technological needs of the criminal justice system.

The Council uses this information to recommend research and development priorities to NIJ and advises NLECTC on equipment testing, the creation of standards, user guidelines, and technical reports. At the same time, it relays information about NIJ's technology programs and products back to the criminal justice community for its review.

Guided by an executive committee, LECTAC is organized into subcommittees, all of which address technology areas of technology which are annually identified as priorities by NIJ and LECTAC. These subcommittees focus on law enforcement operations, corrections operations, communications, contraband detection, custody, investigative and forensic sciences, information systems, training and simulation, and weapons and protective systems. LECTAC and its subcommittees meet as appropriate to review NIJ programs, attend presentations on emerging technologies, meet with representatives of the centers' regional advisory councils, and discuss State and local technology needs.

Once a year, LECTAC recommends to the NLECTC system priorities for NIJ programs. Regional Advisory Councils The centers in the NLECTC system establish close ties to the States they serve through their regional advisory councils. Each council is made up of criminal justice practitioners who represent a cross-section of law enforcement and corrections agencies from each of the centers' constituent States. The regional advisory councils meet regularly to help center staff identify and rank the needs of the criminal justice community and provide feedback on NIJ programs. Council members

Ascertain and itemize current and future equipment and technological requirements of their criminal justice community
Review the programs of their center and the NLECTC system as a means of helping the system remain focused on the needs of State and local agencies
Recommend priorities for equipment testing and developing equipment standards, technical reports, and user guides
Review and comment on draft publications and reports as to their usefulness for law enforcement and corrections practitioners.
Regional advisory councils not only work with the regional centers but also provide information to LECTAC. Center Directors and council chairs relay information from the regional councils to LECTAC through regular meetings with the LECTAC executive committee.

NLECTC: https://www.justnet.org/index.html

Though the programs developed and funded by its bureaus and offices, OJP works to form partnerships among federal, state, and local government officials to control drug abuse and trafficking; reduce and prevent crime; rehabilitate neighborhoods; improve the administration of justice in America; meet the needs of crime victims; and address problems such as gang violence, prison crowding, juvenile crime, and white-collar crime.

The functions of each bureau or program office are interrelated. For example, the statistics generated by the Bureau of Justice Statistics may drive the research that is conducted through the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Research results, in turn generate new programs that receive support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Although some research and technical assistance is provided directly by OJP's bureaus and offices, most of the work is accomplished through federal financial assistance to scholars, practitioners, experts, and state and local governments and agencies. Many of the program bureaus and offices provide award formula grants to state agencies, which, in turn, sub-grant funds to units of state and local government. Formula grant programs in such areas as drug control and system improvement, juvenile justice, victim's compensation, and victim's assistance, are administered by state agencies designated by each state's governor. Discretionary grant funds are announced in the Federal Register or through program solicitations that can also be found through bureau and OJP Websites. Grant applications are made directly to the sponsoring OJP bureau or program office.

OJP website: https://www.ojp.gov/

The Global Advisory Committee (GAC) is made up of key personnel from local, state, tribal, federal, and international justice entities. It helps steer and facilitate Global’s efforts in efficient sharing of data among justice entities and was formed to serve as an advisory committee to the U.S. Attorney General.

The GAC, through its Working Groups, works collaboratively to address the policy, connectivity, and jurisdictional issues that have hampered effective justice information sharing. The GAC membership reflects the tenet that the entire justice community must be involved in information exchange. Experts represent the following constituencies: law enforcement agencies; prosecutors, public defenders, and courts; corrections agencies; and probation and parole departments.

Links to organizations that comprise GAC: http://www.iir.com/global/committee.htm

The National Sex Offender Public Registry, coordinated by the Department of Justice, is a cooperative effort between the state agencies hosting public sexual offender registries and the federal government. This website is a search tool allowing a user to submit a single national query to obtain information about sex offenders through a number of search options:

By Name

By ZIP Code

By County (if provided by state)

By City/Town (if provided by state)

By State (one or multiple)

National

The criteria for searching are limited to what each individual state may provide. Also, because information is hosted by each state and not by the federal government, search results should be verified by the user in the state where the information is posted. Users are advised to log on to pertinent state web sites for further information and/or guidance, as appropriate.

For further details please visit http://www.nsopr.gov/

The Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI) provides fusion centers with the ability to receive and vet SARs within their state or region, and rapidly notify the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) of potential incidents with the push of a button. Essentially the NSI provides the law enforcement community with another tool to “connect the dots” to combat crime and terrorism in a manner that rigorously protects the privacy and civil liberties of Americans. The IJIS Institute has played a key role in the analysis, design, and deployment of technology solutions to support broad information sharing functional objectives and NSI technical requirements.

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30011

The SAVIN Training and Technical Assistance Project Team regularly collects, compiles, and catalogs documents, state statues, policies, sample publications, model training materials, public education templates, and other materials which can be found in the Virtual Library. These materials have been donated by programs across the country.

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"Ethical and legal obligations compel every professional in the justice system to protect privacy interests when sharing justice information. Today, increased security needs not only dictate enhanced justice information sharing but also highlight the need to balance privacy protection and justice information access. The ease of digital access now makes analysis of privacy obligations a more complex process. Nonetheless, the underlying foundations for privacy policy exist in our current laws and customs. Constitutions, statutes, regulations, policies, procedures, and common-law requirements still control justice entity collection and sharing of information. What is new is the need for justice practitioners to articulate the rules that control their information gathering and sharing activities in a manner that both supports information sharing and protects constitutional privacy rights."

"Since September 11, 2001, enhanced justice information sharing has been shown to be critical to ensure public safety and homeland security. As agencies pursue the automated exchange of information in the public interest, it is equally as critical that decision makers vigorously strive to protect constitutional privacy rights. To this end, justice and public safety agencies must develop privacy policies to guide information exchange efforts and to clearly identify the rules that control their information sharing activities.

The Privacy Policy Development Guide is a practical, hands-on resource that provides justice practitioners with sensible guidance for developing a privacy policy. It assists agencies in articulating privacy obligations in a manner that protects the justice agency, the individual, and the public and makes it easier to do what is necessary - share critical justice information."

To read more about justice information sharing privacy and to access the above mentioned guide, click on the following URL:

Policy, Guidance and Fact Sheets: https://www.fema.gov/assistance/individual/policy-guidance-and-fact-she…

"The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has played a key role in the design and implementation of NIEM since inception. Under a funding partnership with DOJ and DHS, GTRI works with the NIEM Business Architecture Committee (NBAC) and the NIEM Technical Architecture Committee (NTAC) to implement and refine the NIEM standards and data components to meet the cross domain information sharing needs of federal, state, local, and tribal stakeholders. This includes implementation of the latest NIEM 2.0 release and associated tools which can now be downloaded from www.niem.gov.

An SOA separates partner capabilities into distinct units, or services, which are accessible over a network so users can combine and reuse them in producing applications, receiving real-time information, reporting, performing investigations, etc.

A service, in the context of information exchange, is defined as a distinct function [or unit] that allows the consumer of information to locate and access the information being provided by an information provider. Services communicate with each other by passing data from one service to another, or by coordinating an activity between two or more services.

A Service Specification is a formal document describing the capabilities made available through the service: the service model that defines the semantics of the service by representing its behavioral model, information model, and interactions; the policies that constrain the use of the service; and the service interface that provides a means of interaction with the service.

A service specification is analogous to the software documentation of an Application Programming Interface (API). It provides stakeholders with an understanding of the structure and functionality of the service and the applicability to its implementation interface rules (policies). It gives service consumers the information necessary for consuming a particular service, and service providers the information necessary for implementing the service in a consistent and interoperable manner.

The Performance Reference Model (PRM) is a standardized framework to characterize the performance of information technology (IT) initiatives and their contribution to program performance. PRM can help produce enhanced IT performance information to improve strategic and daily decision-making; improve the alignment and contribution of IT to outputs and outcomes, thereby creating a clear "line of sight" to results; and identify performance improvement opportunities across traditional agency boundaries.

The Business Reference Model (BRM) is a function-driven framework for describing the business operations of the federal government independent of the agencies that perform them. BRM provides an organized, hierarchical construct for describing the federal government's day-to-day business operations.

On February 6, 2002, the development of a Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) commenced. Led by OMB, the purpose of this effort is to identify opportunities to simplify processes and unify work across the agencies and within the lines of business of the Federal Government. The outcome of this effort will be a more citizen-centered, customer focused government that maximizes technology investments to better achieve mission outcomes.

The FEA is a business-based framework for cross-agency, government-wide improvement. It provides OMB and the Federal agencies with a new way of describing, analyzing, and improving the federal government and its ability to serve the citizen.

A Business Focused Approach …
Drawing from lessons learned through unsuccessful architecture efforts in the past, the FEA is truly business-driven. As such, its foundation is a Business Reference Model
(BRM), which describes the government’s Lines of Business and its services to the citizen independent of the agencies and offices involved. This business-based foundation provides a common reference point and foundation for improvement in a variety of key areas, such as performance measurement, budget allocation, information technology (IT) redundancy elimination, cross-agency collaboration, and e-Government.

Source: http://www.opm.gov/egov/documents/architecture/

The Data and Information Reference Model (DRM) helps to describe the types of interactions and information exchanges that occur between the federal government and its various constituencies. It will categorize the government's information along general content areas specific to BRM sub functions and decompose those content areas into greater levels of detail, ultimately to data components that are common to many business processes or activities. DRM will establish a commonly understood classification for federal data and enable information sharing between agencies. A common data classification model will streamline the processes associated with information exchange, both within the federal government and between the government and its external stakeholders.

The Technical Reference Model (TRM) is a component driven, technical framework used to identify the standards, specifications, and technologies that support and enable the delivery of service components and capabilities. TRM provides a foundation to support the construction, delivery, and exchange of business and application or service components that may be used and leveraged in a Component-based or Service-oriented Architecture.

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a standard digital format for expressing the essential content of effective warning messages, regardless of the technology by which they'll be delivered. A single CAP message can be used to trigger sirens, the Emergency Alert System, Weather Radios, telephone notification systems and systems for people with special needs such as the deaf and hearing-impaired.

Click Here to read more about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).

All components of a Service Specification are compiled in a GRA Service Specification Package (GRA-SSP). The SSP is a portable, self-contained, and self-documented collection of service specification artifacts in .zip format. The SSP is human- and machine-readable and can be used independently or as part of a service registry and/or repository.

A federation member organization that vets individuals, collects attributes about these individuals, and maintains these attributes in an accurate and timely manner. The IDPO operates an Identity Provider (IDP), which is a software service that performs user authentication each time an individual presents himself or herself to the federation and assigns the current attributes about the individual for a given information technology session. These attributes are presented to Service Providers in the federation or on a federation-to-federation basis.

A federation member organization that provides one or more electronic information service(s) to the federation. Service Provider Organizations provide services to the federation via Service Provider, which are trusted software services. These SPs evaluate the set of Identity Provider attributes presented to them in a form that conforms to the GFIPM Web Browser User-to-System Profile [GFIPM U2S PROFILE], to determine what level of access to provide to each end user.

Information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person or can be used with other sources to uniquely identify a single individual.

A federation member organization that acts on behalf of one or more Identity Provider Organizations (IDPOs), acting as a trust bridge between those IDPOs and the Federation. A TIBO operates a Trusted Identity Broker (TIB), which is a software entity that provides the necessary cryptographic bridge and attribute translation capabilities to allow users from Identity Provider Organizations not in the Federation to access services in the Federation.

The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Information Exchange (PMIX) establishes a national interoperability architecture, specifications, and a reusable infrastructure for the secure, reliable, and sustainable interstate exchange of state prescription data. PMIX leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles through the Global Reference Architecture (GRA) to minimize custom development and maximize future agility.

PDMPs maintain statewide electronic databases of prescriptions dispensed for controlled substances (i.e., prescription drugs of abuse that are subject to stricter government regulation). Information collected by PDMPs may be used to support access to and legitimate medical use of controlled substances; identify or prevent drug abuse and diversion, facilitate the identification of prescription drug-addicted individuals and enable intervention and treatment, outline drug use and abuse trends to inform public health initiatives, or educate individuals about prescription drug use, abuse, and diversion as well as about PDMPs.

The PMIX Pilot Program is just a start. Infrastructure for the PMIX Pilot was tested in a successful pilot exchange of live data between the Kentucky All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting system and the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System or RxCheck Hub. Under the PMIX approach, all protected health information was encrypted at the message level so that private data was not visible to any intermediary servers outside state boundaries. The supporting technologies used for the Pilot follow:

Data interoperability was enabled through National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD).
Messaging interoperability was through a GRA PMIX Service Specification Package, including reliable secure web services capabilities.
A software development kit containing a State Routing Service intermediary and a reference implementation was used to reduce cost and accelerate adoption of the required state-side software.
The RxCheck Hub is the baseline implementation of the PMIX architecture. The hub was developed, with BJA support, to create an operational data sharing hub to implement the PMIX specifications and to deliver a functional, interstate, data-sharing hub. The RxCheck hub was designed with the involvement of the state PDMP practitioner community, private industry, and the Federal government, and began as the PMIX hub during a prototype development phase with data exchanges between Ohio and Kentucky. The hub was subsequently renamed the RxCheck hub to avoid confusion between the architecture and the hub.

Resource:

Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Document

RxCheck Connection Guide (June 2014)

PMIX IEPD

In 2006 the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices organized a Policy Academy which included five states. A grant of $50,000 was used to fund research to encourage justice information sharing using the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). States included in the Policy Academy were Connecticut, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Carolina. Pilot projects focused on a variety of information exchanges. This report, drafted by the state of Connecticut, documents the CJIS-Meta Data Repository Project (CJIS-MDR), which is the data on the knowledge that is within an organization.

http://www.nga.org/cms/home.html

Participating Organization: Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division
Contact Organization: Office of Policy and Management
Contact Person: Terry Schnure
[email protected]
Contact Phone: 806-418-6390

In 2006 the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices organized a Policy Academy which included five states. A grant of $50,000 to each state was used to fund research to encourage justice information sharing using the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). States included in the Policy Academy were Connecticut, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Carolina. Pilot projects focused on a variety of information exchanges. This report, drafted by the state of Iowa, outlines some goals, outcomes, and lessons learned from the exchange of information between the County Attorneys and the Department of Corrections in Iowa.

http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/07GJXDMIA.PDF

Participating Organization: Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning

Contact Organization: Iowa Department of Human Rights
Contact Person: David Meyers
[email protected]
Contact Phone: 515-281-6929

In 2006, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices organized a Policy Academy which included five states. A grant of $50,000 to each state was used to fund research to encourage justice information sharing using the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). States included in the Policy Academy were Connecticut, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Carolina. Pilot projects focused on a variety of information exchanges. This report, drafted by the state of New York, outlines the need to facilitate integrated justice information systems planning and implementation by enhancing the ability to access and share critical criminal justice information electronically at key decision points throughout the criminal justice process.

http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/07GJXDMNY.PDF

Contact Organization: NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services
Contact Name: Valerie Shanley
[email protected]
Contact Phone: 518-457-6066

The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful development of two NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Documents (IEPDs) and electronic data transmission involving the N-DEx subset of Uniform Crime Report (UCR) incident/offense and arrest data and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) data, through the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC).

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30016

The purpose of the External Alarm Interface Exchange IEPD is to provide a standard data exchange for electronically transmitting information between an alarm monitoring company and a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). This effort to upgrade the External Alarm Exchange IEPD was sponsored by the Public Safety Data Interoperability (PSDI) Program, funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and comanaged by the IJIS Institute and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials–International (APCO).

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30021

The purpose of this case study is to highlight the results and application of NIEM to the Consortium for the Exchange of Criminal Justice Technology (CONNECT), an interstate criminal justice information sharing initiative led by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC).

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30026

The State of Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) contacted the Connecticut Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) in 2007 to inquire whether it would be possible to use the CJIS Offender Based Tracking System (OBTS) to look for offenders who hold student transportation endorsements. A manual process was developed and implemented using PL/SQL Developer. Since the first data exchange, CJIS has standardized to NIEM 2.0. The process was defined and working, so CJIS decided to use this exchange as the pilot for NIEM 2.0 and the IEPD process.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30031

In an effort to establish the technology architecture needed across the jurisdictions, the National Capital Region (NCR) created a Data Exchange Hub (DEH) to act as a switching station for providing secure access to communications systems and applications. As a part of this effort, four information exchanges were identified as priorities and documented—NCR Resource Typing, Crisis Incident Management System (CIMS) Data Exchange, Records Management System (RMS) Exchange, and Computer-Aided Dispatch Exchange. These exchanges were developed using the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), and the resulting Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPDs) successfully demonstrated the utility of NIEM in the NCR project.

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30036

The purpose of this case study is to highlight the success of the pilot design of an interstate prescription monitoring information exchange (PMIX) program between California and Nevada.

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30041

Two projects in New Jersey are actively using and/or developing the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) standards for the sharing and processing of data.

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30046

The purpose of this case study is to highlight the success of the development of a NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Document (IEPD) for the New York State Intra-State Criminal History Report (Rap Sheet) Project.

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Documents
https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30051

To satisfy the need for standards and consistency, New York City decided to build on the success of Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) in the criminal justice domain and adopt NIEM 2.0-conformant data exchanges for ACCESS NYC and the overall Health and Human Services domain.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30056

As part of the ongoing efforts being made by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to integrate NIEM into its enterprise, the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list data is being converted to a format that uses NIEM data elements. OFAC’s completion of its NIEM-SDN pilot project has revealed the utility of a scalable, universal exchange format, and the hope is that future exchange relationships with other agencies will consume fewer resources and will be completed in shorter periods of time.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30061

The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful development of a NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Document (IEPD) for Pennsylvania’s Court Case Event Messages through Pennsylvania’s Justice Network (JNET) and to draw attention to resulting documentation—NIEM Adoption Whitepaper, Performance Measurement Plan, and Lessons-Learned Report—that can guide future NIEM implementation efforts.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30066

This case study looks at the state of Texas’ adoption of NIEM on the Texas Path to NIEM project.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30071

This case study highlights the success of E-Verify from a data sharing perspective, between SSA and different systems within DHS.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30076

The Vermont Judiciary operates with a case management system that is almost 20 years old, and the baseline code has been copied into each county over the years. The Judiciary has a project under way to purchase and convert to a modern, centralized, Web-based case management, document management, and e-filing system to support all courts in the Judiciary.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30081

The purpose of this case study is to highlight the success of the development of NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Document (IEPD) for Law Enforcement Access to Driver’s License Photos in Washington State.

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https://bja.ojp.gov/media/document/30086