Technology Implementation - Gangs

Virtual, online meeting of the CJTFG to review and discuss draft findings and recommendations from group meetings #1-3, as well as discuss several new candidate recommendations and action items. The latter included draft recommendations on requiring data to be exportable from core criminal justice records systems, calling for research on technologies for subduing suspects, and findings on the growing importance of centralized case management in providing services to clients as part of reducing recidivism (and crime) as part of CJ reform.

In October 2016, IIR assisted in the coordination of a face-to-face meeting with members of the NIEM PMO, the NBAC, and the NTAC in Rosslyn, Virginia. The meeting included separate NBAC and NTAC sessions, as well as joint sessions of both groups and the NIEM PMO.

This task team was formed, in part, in response to a document drafted by members of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group (CJTFG), supported by RAND on behalf of BJA, to support the following task approved by the GESC: Solve specific justice/health exchanges using consistent architectural approaches to minimize costs and increase interoperability.

IIR supports the efforts of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Justice Information Sharing (JIS) Training and Technical Assistance Committee (JTTAC) through the planning, agenda development, hosting, and action item follow-up of standing bi-monthly conference calls.

NW3C staff attended the 2016 American Society of Criminoloy Annual Meeting. While there, NW3C hosted a meeting of the White Collar Crime Research Consortium (WCCRC). The WCCRC is being included as an official division within ASC (the Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime).

Attended and presented at the MCCA Fall Meeting. The MCCA Fall meeting is held for two days immediately before the annual conference of IACP.

The Major Cities Chiefs Association meets three times a year. Chiefs may bring staff members to attend thee meetings. Law enforcement staff members are allowed in all meeting segments with the exception of Executive Sessions. Official representatives of governmental agencies are normally invited to attend all sessions with the exception of the Executive Sessions.

RAND plans to conduct the fourth in-person meeting of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group. This meeting will focus on addressing the top two topics for follow-on research from prior CJTFG meetings: identifying the most promising emerging technologies for sharing and using information, and determining top business cases for sharing information across the criminal justice enterprise.

Responding to the recognized need to measure effectiveness and efficiency of justice programs, a Global Performance Reference Model Task Team (PRM TT) is being assembled to develop guidelines, tools, and models for design, development, and implementation of performance measures, specifically for cross-boundary justice programs and initiatives. This task team’s outcome will be a series of free, easily accessible products housed in the Global Information Sharing Toolkit and geared toward a range of users, from executive decision makers to technology implementers.

IIR supports the efforts of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Justice Information Sharing (JIS) Training and Technical Assistance Committee (JTTAC) through the planning, agenda development, hosting, and action item follow-up of standing bi-monthly conference calls.

RAND conducted the third in-person meeting of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group, to include facilitating, dynamically capturing and analyzing the discussion and findings, and providing logistics and administrative support. The purpose of this meeting was to broadly survey inter-related technological, social, and political trends with the greatest impacts on criminal justice, discuss what the impacts are and will likely be in the near future (2-5 years), and develop potential responses.