information sharing

The Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program, with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, supports local, state, federal, and tribal criminal justice entities by offering various resources to enhance law enforcement efforts. For example, RISS helps facilitate cross-agency collaboration through the RISSLeads Investigative website. Through this platform, law enforcement officers can interact with one another across jurisdictions to share investigative leads, information, or other issues.

Join the International Association of Chiefs of Police for their webinar “Multidisciplinary Information Sharing in Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces” on April 22, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET. This webinar is designed for Enhanced Collaboration Model (ECM) human trafficking task force grantees.

Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) human trafficking task forces are a prime example of how a wide spectrum of governmental and non-governmental agencies can work together to help bring traffickers to justice, help survivors heal, and raise education and awareness in communities. Sharing information across disciplines is vital to the success of each task force; however, it can be challenging to navigate the information sharing policies of each agency and balance the need for collaboration with the need to maintain legal, professional, and ethical confidentiality standards.

The School Safety task team was developed through a recommendation from the Attorney General to develop common data elements to assist with multi-disciplinary threat assessment teams. Prior to the December 3-4 in-person meeting, this task team had 3 conference calls to prepare for the meeting. During the in-person meeting, the team brainstormed and developed a draft paper which included data elements as well as the executive summary.

The CI/IT Committee brings together representatives from various criminal intelligence information technology organizations to share best practices, discuss new technology, and identify operational gaps between the two groups in order to improve support to law enforcement and homeland security partners. The committee is focused on identifying ways to merge technology and criminal intelligence to better protect and strengthen infrastructure and coordinate operational issues.

The International Public Safety Association Symposium was held on September 18-19, 2019 in Alexandria, Virginia. This event gathered individuals throughout state, local, and federal public safety network to discuss new warnings and alerts in an effort to develop a joint response to all incidents. Presentations including information on natural and man-made disasters and how best to respond.

The Midwest Criminal Justice Association meeting was to examine criminal justice and criminology through the lens of intersectionality. Law enforcement agencies must sometimes respond to unexpected and harmful deviations from their intended goals—arresting the wrong suspect, causing injury or damage during a police pursuit, shooting unarmed suspects, or other events considered organizational accidents. This conference examined the issues faced by law enforcement in these situations.

Rap Sheet Summary Group (RSSG) was approved to bring 6 or 7 subject experts together for a small in-person drafting session to discuss the proposed rap sheet summary data elements that resulted from a survey of law enforcement respondents. The RSSG’s focus was to recommend the data elements (ex. crimes, offenses, and other data fields) as the initial/standard set to be filtered from criminal history records into a one page summary report. In June 2019, the survey results were analyzed, and a draft report of the recommended data elements developed and vetted through the RSSG.

Subject experts met to discuss the new Global and CICC priority to begin efforts to identify common data elements of school violence threat assessments to lay the foundation for the School Safety Task Team’s kickoff and to frame the issues for consideration.

The goal of the Intelligence Summit is to identify gaps, areas for improvement, and successes of state, local, and federal members of the intelligence community to continue improving intelligence sharing efforts nationwide.