Global Justice Information
Sharing Initiative
SEARCH: The National Consortium for
Justice Information and Statistics
January 25, 2006
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Global Overview
• The U.S. Department of Justice’s Global Justice Information
Sharing Initiative (Global) serves as the Federal Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Attorney General
• Supports the exchange of pertinent justice and public safety
information
• Promotes standards-based electronic information exchange
• Timely, accurate, complete, and accessible information in a
secure and trusted environment
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Global Advisory Committee (GAC) Membership
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Administration Office of the United States Courts
American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators
American Correctional Association
American Probation and Parole Association
Association of State Correctional Administrators
Conference of State Court Administrators
Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council
Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
Advisory Board
Executive Office for United States Attorneys
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
International Association of Chiefs of Police
(IACP)
IACP – Division of State and Provincial Police
IACP – Indian Country Law Enforcement
Section
INTERPOL – United States National Central
Bureau
Major Cities Chiefs Association
National Association of Attorneys General
National Association of Court Management
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Global Advisory Committee (GAC) Membership
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National Association of State Chief Information
Officers (NASCIO)
National Center for State Courts (NCSC)
National Conference of State Legislatures
(NCSL)
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court
Judges (NCJFCJ)
National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA)
National District Attorneys Association (NDAA)
National Governors Association (NGA)
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National Legal Aid and Defender Association
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National Sheriffs' Association (NSA)
SEARCH, The National Consortium for
Justice Information and Statistics
United States Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)
United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
Justice Management Division (JMD)
United States Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) National Association of
Court Management
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Global Working Groups
• Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council and
Intelligence Working Group
• Privacy and Information Quality
• Infrastructure/Standards Working Group
• Security Working Group
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The Global Intelligence Working Group
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What Is a Fusion Center?
• A collaborative effort of two or
more agencies that provide
resources, expertise, and/or
information to the center with the
goal of maximizing the ability to
detect, prevent, investigate,
apprehend, and respond to
criminal and terrorist activity
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Why Is the Fusion Process Important?
• Supports an all-source, all-crimes, all-hazards, all-threats approach to
intelligence
• Blends data from different sources, including law enforcement, public
safety, and the private sector
• Supports risk-based, information-driven prevention, response, and
consequence management programs
• Supports intelligence-led policing
• Fusion is the overarching process of managing the flowing of information
and intelligence across all levels and sectors of government and the private
sector
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What Are the Guidelines for Fusion Centers?
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NCISP and the Intelligence Process
Mission Statement and Goals
Governance
Collaboration
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
and Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
Database Resources
Interconnectivity
Privacy
Security
Facility, Location, and Physical
Infrastructure
11. Human Resources
12. Training of Center Personnel
13. Multidisciplinary Awareness and
Education
14. Intelligence Services and Products
15. Policies and Procedures
16. Center Performance Measurement and
Evaluation
17. Funding
18. Communications
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Key Recommendations From the Focus Groups
• Intelligence is the foundation for the fusion center
• Development of functional categories for public safety and
private sector participation
• Further expand on the fusion process
• Include examples of incorporating the public safety and
private sector components throughout the report
• Two-way educational process between fusion centers and
participating organizations
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What Resources Have Been Compiled for
Fusion Centers?
• The Fusion Center
Guidelines report
• A companion CD that
contains sample policies,
templates, checklists,
resource documents, and Web
site links has been developed
in conjunction with the
guidelines
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Future Intelligence Issues
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Facilitation of a National Information Sharing Strategy
Facilitation of Fusion Center Guidelines next steps
Integration of the NCISP/FSG into CALEA
Review of 28 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 23
Recommendations on a National Policy on Sensitive But Unclassified
(SBU) Information
• Recommendations on Justice Information Gathering Practices in Immigrant
Communities
• Support the Office of the DNI/PM in the Information Sharing Environment.
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Privacy and Information Quality WG
• The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Global recognize the
indispensable and primary role of local, state, and tribal justice leadership in
enhanced information sharing
• Each justice entity must actively define privacy protection and information
quality requirements for collecting, sharing, and managing the personally
identifiable information that it controls in order to enhance sharing while
protecting privacy
• Two related resources for privacy policy development include the Privacy
and Information Quality Policy Development for the Justice Decision Maker
and the Privacy Policy Development Guide
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Privacy and Information Quality Policy
Development for the Justice Decision Maker
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Geared toward the justice executive
Engenders an awareness about the topic
High-level, easy-to-read booklet
Introduces the framework for a systematic
consideration of privacy and information quality
policy and practices within a criminal justice agency
The executive overview is an excellent primer and
educational tool that applies settled privacy
principles to justice information sharing systems.
Privacy Policy Development Guide
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Geared toward the justice practitioner charged
with developing or revising an agency’s privacy
policy
A practical, hands-on resource that provides
sensible guidance for developing a privacy policy
This guide is the next logical step for those justice
entities that are ready to move beyond awareness
into the actual policy development process
It assists agencies in articulating privacy
obligations in a manner that protects the justice
agency, the individual, and the public and makes
it easier to do what is necessary—share critical
justice information
Next Steps - Privacy & Information Quality
• Identification of subject-matter experts
• Guidance on information quality issues & policies
• Focusing on the issues surrounding “information quality”
and all of the complexities that term connotes
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Infrastructure/Standards WG
Global Justice Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Data Model (Global JXDM)
• Provides law enforcement, public safety,
prosecutors, public defenders, and the judicial
branch with a tool to effectively share data and
information in a timely manner
• Removes burden from agencies to independently
create exchange standards
• Incorporates flexibility to deal with unique agency
requirements and changes
• Enables access from multiple sources and reuse in
multiple applications
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A Framework for Justice Information Sharing:
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Intended for the manager and
policymaker who are responsible for
providing leadership, resources, and
management of justice community
• Most likely to result in an infrastructure
supporting Global’s vision of how
information should be shared among the
justice community
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National Information Exchange Model
(NIEM)
• A collaborative effort of DOJ and the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Provides the foundation and building blocks
for national-level interoperable information
sharing and data exchange
• Will develop partnerships, provide
collaborations, and present a unified strategy
that will enable the entire justice and public
safety community to effectively share
information at all levels
• Utilizes Global JXDM as the base technology
NIEM Concept
• Embodies next-generation
enterprise data management
technologies at the conceptual and
implementation levels
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– Modularity aligned with common and
stakeholder-specific information needs
– Stakeholder consensus
– Collaborative development,
sustainment, and reuse of sets of core
data types
Benefits of NIEM
• NIEM will provide the following value propositions
– Leverage the benefits of Global JXDM
– Facilitate growth of the data model through harmonization of new data
components
– Coordinate independent project teams within DOJ and DHS
– Provide effective support and assistance for practitioners
– Facilitate discovery of reusable data components
– Facilitate assembly of exchange packages
– Maintain compatibility with Global JXDM
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Next Steps
Infrastructure/Standards Working Group
• Facilitate the creation of a Justice Reference Architecture (JRA)
– At a very high level, the JRA consists of standards (such as the Global
Justice XML Data Model [GJXDM]), services, registries, and policies
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Re-architect the GJXDM into components
Identify a low-risk migration strategy from the GJXDM to the NIEM
Support recommendations on Messaging Standards Strategy
Oversee production of an Executive Briefing on technology.
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Applying Security Practices to Justice
Information Sharing
• Developed to educate justice executives
and managers in security practices
• For deployment within their agencies
and between multiple agencies
• Contains background information,
overviews of best practices, and
guidelines to secure information
sharing
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So You Want to Set Up a Wi-Fi . . .
• Presents quick steps for a system
administrator to utilize when
setting up a Wi-Fi network
• Includes setting up the wireless
access point, configuring a
firewall, and assigning static
Internet protocol addresses
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Security Working Group Next Steps
• Facilitating the development of a security reference
architecture for the justice community
• Update the Security Practices document, especially in
wireless practices
• Supporting the development of a federated identity and
privilege management recommendation
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New and Expanding Global Issues
• SEARCH’s Involvement
– Executive Staff
– Membership
• Large Scale Disaster Recovery
• Institutionalization of Governance Issues
• Promoting Executive-level Education in Key Areas
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Thank You!
Questions?
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