U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s)
Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
(Global)
Carl Wicklund
Vice-Chairman, Global Advisory Committee (GAC)
Chairman, Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group
American Probation and Parole Association representative to the GAC
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Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global)
• FACA advisory body to nation’s chief law enforcement officer: the
U.S. Attorney General (AG)
– Supported by (BJA) and Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. DOJ
– Addressing technical and policy issues
• Thirty-one AG-selected agencies, associations, constituencies
• Key personnel from all governmental levels
– Local, state, tribal, Federal, and international
• Representatives from across the justice landscape, affecting the work of more
than 1.2 million justice professionals
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U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
Global Advisory Committee (GAC)
Intangible, Invaluable Benefit of GAC Interaction:
Trust and Collaboration
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Global Advisory Committee’s (GACs)
Five Working Groups
1. Global Outreach Working Group
2. Global Intelligence Working Group
3. Global Infrastructure/Standards Working Group
4. Global Privacy and Information Quality Working
Group
5. Global Security Working Group
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U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
Global Outreach Working Group (GOWG)
• Raise Global awareness and community support
• In early 2007, Global formed the Global Outreach Working
Group to assist
– GAC members
– The other four topic-oriented working groups
– Staff in dissemination of Global resources, news stories, and creating
“brand awareness” for the Initiative
• Activities are targeted within GAC to engender greater
enthusiasm and knowledge by Global representatives and
outside of Global to the larger justice-interested community
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Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG)
• National Criminal Intelligence
Sharing Plan (NCISP)
• Fusion Center Guidelines
• Baseline Capabilities for State and
Major Urban Area Fusion Centers
• Findings and Recommendations of
the Suspicious Activity Report
(SAR) Support and Implementation
Project
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Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG) (continued)
• Minimum Criminal Intelligence
Training Standards
• Guidelines for Establishing and
Operating Gang Intelligence Units
and Task Forces
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Global Infrastructure/Standards
Working Group (GISWG)
GJXDM
NIEM
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Global Infrastructure/Standards
Working Group (GISWG)
(continued)
• 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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Global Privacy and Information Quality
Working Group (GPIQWG)—Privacy Resources
• 10 Steps to a Privacy and Civil
Liberties Policy
• Privacy and Civil Liberties
Policy Development Guide
and Implementation Templates
• Privacy Policy Development
Checklist
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Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group
(GPIQWG)—Information Quality Resources
• Information Quality: The
Foundation for
Justice Decision Making
• DRAFT: Information Quality
Self-Assessment Tool (to debut
DRAFT
winter 2008)
• DRAFT: Information Quality
Program Guide (to debut spring
2009)
DRAFT
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Global Security Working Group (GSWG)
• Applying Security Practices to Justice
Information Sharing
• Implementing Privacy Policy in Justice
Information Sharing: A Technical Framework
• Global Federated Identity and Privilege
Management (GFIPM) Project
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U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
An Example of Fitting Global “Pieces” Together:
Fusion Centers
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Leveraging Global “Pieces” for All Levels of
Government
Global Partners
State and Local Privacy
Technical Assistance
Global Partners
Fusion Center Privacy
Technical Assistance
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U.S. DOJ’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative
www.it.ojp.gov – OJP IT Web Site
• Office of Justice
Programs (OJP)
Information Technology
(IT) Initiatives Web site
• Web site enables justice
agencies to obtain timely
and useful information on
computer system
integration processes,
initiatives, and
technology developments
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Questions?
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