U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice
Information Sharing Initiative
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David Steingraber, Executive Director, Office of Justice Assistance,
State of Wisconsin, and NGA Representative to Global
NGA Policy Academy • January 17-18, 2008 • New Orleans, Louisiana
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What Is Global?
• FACA advisory body to the federal government
– Specifically, the U.S. Attorney General
• Supported and guided by
– Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and Office of Justice
Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Local, state, and tribal voice to the AG and justiceinterested community on standards-based justice
information sharing
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Who Is Global?—The Global Advisory
Committee (GAC)
• Thirty-one (31) U.S. Attorney General-selected agencies,
associations, constituencies
• Key personnel from all governmental levels
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Tribal
Federal
International
• Addressing technical and policy issues
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• Representatives
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Prosecutors, public defenders, and courts
Corrections agencies
Probation and parole departments
Law enforcement agencies
Victim services
Juvenile justice
• Membership reflects a fundamental GAC tenet—for Global to
succeed in
Leading the Way—Getting the Right Information to the
Right People in the Right Place at the Right Time
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What Is Global? Intangible and Invaluable Products:
Trust and Collaboration
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Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)
• Background
– Through FACA of 1972 (Public Law 92-463), Congress formally
recognized the merits of seeking advice on a broad range of issues
affecting federal policies and programs
• Complying With FACA
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GAC membership
Charter
Designated federal official
Open meetings announced in Federal Register
Public access to documentation
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Areas of Emphasis:
Global Working Groups
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Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC)/
Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG)
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GIWG formed to develop the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
(NCISP) as described in “Criminal Intelligence Sharing: A National Plan
for Intelligence-Led Policing at the Local, State, and Federal Levels—
Recommendations From the IACP Intelligence Summit”
CICC provides guidance and advice in connection with the implementation
and refinement of the NCISP
Both serve as advocates for local law enforcement agencies in their efforts
to develop and share criminal intelligence for the promotion of public safety
and the security of our nation
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• NCISP development and implementation
• Minimum Criminal Intelligence Training Standards for Law
Enforcement and Other Criminal Justice Agencies in the
United States
• Fusion Center Guidelines
• Regional fusion center conferences
• National Fusion Center Conference
• Gang Intelligence Strategy Committee
• 28 CFR Part 23 Data Call
• Tips and Leads Issue Paper
• Support and guidance for the President’s Information Sharing
Environment (ISE) Implementation Plan
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GIWG/CICC—Deliverables
The National Criminal
Intelligence Sharing Plan
(NCISP)
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GIWG/CICC—Deliverables
The Fusion Center Guidelines
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GIWG/CICC—Highlighted Activities
• Fusion centers
– Development, refinement, and implementation
– Training and technical assistance
• Second National Fusion Center Conference – March 18-20, 2008
– Formalized fusion center regions: NE, SE, Midwest, and Western
• Implementing the Information Sharing Environment (ISE)
– State and major urban area fusion centers are key to the nationwide
intelligence information sharing framework
– Global effort specifically informing
• Guideline 2 of the ISE—Common Framework for Information Sharing
• Guideline 3 of the ISE—Standardize Controlled Unclassified Information
(CUI) Procedures
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Global Infrastructure/Standards
Working Group (GISWG)
• Standards that enable transparent integration of disparate
systems
• Justice Reference Architecture
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GISWG—Deliverables
GJXDM
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GISWG—Deliverables
NIEM
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GISWG—Highlighted Activities
• Justice Reference Architecture (JRA)
– A well-conceived set of principles, policies
and practices, and standards that can be
followed to build agile systems, now called
services
– A method of describing justice information
sharing relationships
– The conceptual components (software, hardware, infrastructure,
policies, procedures, and practices) necessary to bring these
relationships to life in a particular context
– The cross-agency management framework for guiding prioritization,
development, deployment, and maintenance
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GISWG—Results of the Global JRA
• Identification of service components, or areas that produce
a specific granular business outcome that typically more
than one agency needs to know (e.g., criminal identity
based on fingerprints or other biometrics)
• Service components that can be readily combined to
manage major cross-function and cross-agency business
processes
• Services that can be created by one agency and reused by
many
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Global Security Working Group (GSWG)
• Security measures for today’s enhanced information
sharing abilities
• Security guidelines and promising practices for trusted
information sharing
• Recommendations for a federated privilege and identity
management system to provide users with a trusted
credential for access into other justice systems
• Recommendations for a framework for trusted information
sharing
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GSWG—Deliverables
Applying Security Practices to Justice Information Sharing
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GSWG—Highlighted Activities
• Global Federated Identity and Privilege Management (GFIPM)
framework, standardizing solutions to issues of
– Identification/authentication
– Privilege management
– Audit
• Next steps for GFIPM—expanded pilot efforts, public specification
release
• Implementing Privacy Policy in Justice Information Sharing:
A Technical Framework
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Global Privacy and Information Quality
Working Group (GPIQWG)
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Information privacy
Data quality/information accuracy
Criminal history records
Criminal intelligence information
Juvenile justice information
Civil justice information
Local, state, and tribal input on implementing the Information
Sharing Environment’s (ISE) Privacy Guidelines
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GPIQWG—Deliverables
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Privacy Policy Development Guide and Implementation Templates
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GPIQWG—Deliverables
Information Quality: The Foundation
for Justice Decision Making
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GPIQWG—Highlighted Activities
• Information quality assessment tools
• Training and technical assistance related to privacy policy
and information quality
– Fusion Centers
– States
• Technical solutions
– Collaborative effort with GSWG
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Global Outreach Working Group
• Newest working group
• Systematic: no longer ad hoc outreach
– Ensure consistent, efficient, and effective delivery of the
Global message and Global resources
• Goals
– “Inreach” and outreach
– Brand awareness
– Adoption of deliverables and recommendations—the good
work of the GAC is only valuable if recognized and utilized
by the justice community
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Outreach Deliverables
• Promotion of Working Groups’
recommendations and resources
(delivery mechanism)
• Original content—Global
Highlights
• Global Web site
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Outreach
Highlighted Activities
• Web site refresh
• Baseline awareness survey
• “Inreach” and Outreach
– Global 101
• Capturing success stories
• Global Highlights
newsletter
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The IJIS Institute
• A nonprofit consortium representing the leading companies
that supply IT solutions and services to the justice, public
safety, and homeland security sectors
• Funded by a combination of industry contributions and grants
from multiple federal agencies through the Bureau of Justice
Assistance (BJA)
• Joining the resources of industry with the interests of
government to improve the systems that provide critical
information to the justice and public safety professionals who
protect and serve our communities
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The IJIS Institute
Our Services
Helping Implement Global Recommendations
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Technology assistance
Training
NISS help desk and knowledge center
Program management
National scope issue management
Communications and outreach
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Membership Has Its Privileges…
and Responsibilities
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Seat at the by-appointment-only committee table
– Be the voice of your constituency on Global
• Attendance at biannual committee meetings
– Designation of a standing proxy
• Opportunity to vote on important recommendations to the U.S.
Attorney General
• Invitation to join the Global Working Group (or task team or
committee) of your choice
• Promotion of Global, GAC recommendations, and resources to your
colleagues
– Be the voice of Global within your constituency
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FDLE’s Top 10 Reasons to Participate in Global
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Facing and overcoming identified challenges in the proper forum
Remaining current on issues affecting your policy and practice
Accessing professional, credible products at no cost for use by
practitioners across the country
4. Maintaining consistency in implementation through national standards,
Global guidance, and documentation
5. Leveraging time, money, and effort already spent
6. Reducing the number of redundant systems
7. Establishing and maintaining credibility
8. Networking with subject-matter experts at the policy level
9. Contributing your voice on issues that affect your agencies
10. Controlling your own destiny—if you do not, someone else will
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What can you do for Global?
YOU Are Global –
Let Global Work for You
and Spread the Word
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U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice
Information Sharing Initiative
Global 101
October 30, 2007 • Bethesda, Maryland
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U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice
Information Sharing Initiative
United States
Department of Justice
David Steingraber, Executive Director, Office of Justice Assistance,
State of Wisconsin, and NGA Representative to Global
NGA Policy Academy • January 17-18, 2008 • New Orleans, Louisiana
www.it.ojp.gov/global