Criminal justice entities will use this service to quickly determine what information is available about a specific person and where it can be obtained. Where applicable, source systems, record identifiers, and associated dates are provided to enable further inquiry and retrieval of the detailed data available from underlying sources.
The PIA Service functions as a form of federated query. Upon receiving a request message from a consumer system, the service forwards the request to any number of provider systems. Each provider system returns a response indicating what information about the individual is available with a pointer that can be later used to retrieve any detailed information. The service then aggregates the responses from the provider systems and returns a single response to the consumer system. It is important to note that the PIA Service is designed to summarize what information about an individual is available and where detailed information can be obtained. Contrast this with a service that actually obtains and summarizes the information itself. For example, a responding system may indicate that a person has a history of illegal drug abuse. In this case, the PIA Service only indicates that this history exists and provides a pointer for obtaining further (detailed) information. It does not indicate what drugs were used, the circumstances or dates of the use, etc. To provide context for this information, some response elements may contain additional temporal information. For instance, a responding system may indicate that a person has a criminal history and provide the date of the most recent offense. As in the previous example, this response also provides a pointer for obtaining the full criminal history.
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| Creation Date: 01/24/2011 | |
| Status: Release |
| Organization Name: | Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs |
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| Phone: | (202) 616-6500 |
| Website: | http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/ |