Technology Standards - Global Standards

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.

Conducted a workshop (held as a conference presentation) on needs for a federally-supported crime analysis capability and standards at the Massachusetts Association of Crime Analysts' 2016 meeting in Hyannis, MA, in May 2016. We captured about eight pages of needs from about 15 crime analysis practitioners during the workshop.

Standing conference calls of the CICC Membership.

. The Client is requesting technology assistance from the BJA/IJIS Institute TA program to address and focus on the following areas:
• Identify integral components of an overall integration strategic plan and implementation roadmap.
• Perform a limited assessment of the current systems within the domain agencies of Lake County and the state of Illinois.
• Provide advice and guidance on how the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Global Information Sharing Toolkit standards can be best used to ensure reusable solutions over custom or proprietary interfaces.

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.

During the January – June 2016 reporting period, IIR staff worked closely with BJA, Global, and CICC leadership to determine the ongoing and new priorities for Global and the CICC. Significant discussions to advance these decisions occurred during the Spring 2016 GESC Strategic Planning Session, held May 18-9 at the Office of Justice Programs offices.

As a means of monitoring and advancing the priority actions identified during the 2015 “Addressing the Challenges of a Robust State and Regional Information Sharing Environment: A Summit of State Policy Leaders,” an Implementation Working Group (IWG) was established.

Provide Milwaukee PD with direction and guidance on how to proceed cleaning up the master name index data (some 3.5 million records) for the transition into their new Tritech RMS system.

The goal of this project is to coordinate with tribal entities and seek solutions that enable them to participate in the National Instant Background Check System (NICS), and provide disqualifying records to related federal systems. Upon completion, SEARCH will provide technical assistance to tribal entities in order to increase the reporting of firearm purchase disqualifying records. JAN-JUNE 2016 PROGRESS UPDATE: Staff worked with the Tribal Assistance Program (TAP) to identify ways to increase tribal involvement with NICS reporting.