Orange CountyUCF DataSharing Project

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Data Integration in the Criminal Justice System
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Agenda

• Identifying The Data Integration Problem
• Floridas Law Enforcement Strategy
• Identifying The Solution
• A Look at a Florida Integration Solution
• Application Demonstration

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The Problem
Law enforcement agencies at the Federal, State,
County and Municipal levels are currently unable
to share relevant data to support their crime
control and domestic security efforts.
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• National Strategy for HOMELAND SECURITY, Office
  of Homeland Security, July 2002
• THE FOUNDATIONS OF HOMELAND SECURITY
• The National Strategy for Homeland Security
  describes four foundations unique American
  strengths that cut across all of the mission
  areas, across all levels of government, and
  across all sectors or our society. These
  foundations - law, science and technology,
  information sharing and systems, and
  international cooperation provide a useful
  framework for evaluating our homeland security
  investments across the federal government. (page
  x)
• The National Strategy for Homeland Security
  identifies five major initiatives in this area
• Integrate information sharing across the federal
  government
• Integrate information sharing across state and
  local governments, private industry, and
  citizens (page xi)

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Axis of Information A Matrix
Federal Agencies
Vertical Stratification
State Agencies
Local Agencies
Horizontal Pathways
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There are approximately 16,000 local primary
response agencies across the country!
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In Florida alone, primary policing is subdivided
into 355 jurisdictions
With 67 Sheriffs Offices and
about 288 Police Departments (and this doesnt
count State University Police and others who
provide it too)
So, guess where most information is ...
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Floridas Law Enforcement Information and
Intelligence Sharing Strategy Proposed by the
Data Integration Workgroup
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Statewide Strategy Envisions

• Secure and credible data interoperability among
  Florida law enforcement agencies to assist with
  domestic security initiatives and crime control
  in a timely and effective manner
• An infrastructure that takes advantage of
  existing information sharing systems and projects
• A flexible system architecture that enables the
  sharing of information with other state and
  federal agencies in the future
• Elimination of redundant system functionality as
  well as maximizing the benefits of existing and
  future expenditures
• Directly and effectively promoting and achieving
  success in meeting federal/national and Florida
  Domestic Security strategies and objectives

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Strategy Recommendations

• Regional concept for information sharing. Each
  region should have an information sharing
  project, which may incorporate a staffed fusion
  center
• Linking of the regional projects and/or fusion
  centers to enable information sharing at the
  state and national level
• Adopting the National Criminal Intelligence
  Sharing Plan as a guideline for developing
  minimum standards for the intelligence process
• Development of a Privacy Policy for each region
  and overall state project utilizing the Justice
  Information Privacy Guideline
• Utilize the Global Information Sharing XML
  standard as the means for sharing
  information/data between the regional projects
  and fusion centers

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Strategy Recommendations (Cont)

• 6. Creation of an open architecture
  infrastructure based upon
• national technology standards, which will
  enhance
• interoperability and information sharing
  statewide
• Utilization of the Florida Criminal Justice
  Network (CJNet)
• for secure connectivity and communications
• 8. Creation of a hybrid system linking the
  regional centers and agencies not able to
  participate in a regional project
• 9. Inclusion of proviso language within
  vendor/developer contracts that receive state or
  federal funding that system architecture must be
  consistent with the State Information Sharing
  Strategy

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Statewide Strategy Components

• Steering and Advisory Committees
• Technical Sub-Committees
• Incorporating recommendations of the National
  Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
• Funding strategies
• Standard minimum data sources
• Data Standards
• Phased in Intelligence Sharing
• Privacy Policy
• CJNET as connectivity backbone
• System security including access, use, logging,
  audits
• Hybrid Architecture
• Sharing among all jurisdictions
• Policies, Agreements, and Guidelines
• Memorandum of Understanding and/or Operating
  Guidelines and Policies

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The Solution
Create a cost effective, non-proprietary
connectivity infrastructure that allows all law
enforcement agencies, regardless of size, to
exchange data in spite of their many disparate
computer systems.
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What should we consider as we look at ways to
solve the data integration problem?
A. How is the project governed? Does every
agency have a say in the project?
B. How much does it cost to get started?
C. How will the project be funded if federal
funds are not available? D. If an agency
changes records management system, how much does
it cost for them to get reconnected to the
program? E. What are the maintenance costs?
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Considerations Cont.
F. How much does it cost to get
upgrades to newer versions? G. Do
the users have input into the development of the
project? If so, how much
does it cost to change or customize the
program? H. How many members of
the agency can use the program? Are there
user or seat licenses? I.
Does the program allow the agencies to retain
control of their data?
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An Operational Data Integration Solution
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Domestic Security and Crime Control
Through A Law Enforcement Partnership
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What is the Law Enforcement Data Sharing
Consortium?
The Consortium is a public partnership consisting
of Sheriffs Offices and Municipal Police
Departments working with an interdisciplinary
team from the University of Central Floridas,
Public Safety Technology Center. It is the
committed consensus of these motivated
public partners that Florida create a cost
effective data sharing capability that can assist
law enforcement agencies in the exchange of
relevant information in near real time.
Unanimously endorsed by the Florida Sheriffs
Association and the Florida Police Chiefs
Association.
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The Law Enforcement Data Sharing Consortium
Is a coalition of law enforcement and other
agencies that have joined to develop and
implement systems that allow for the sharing of
information.
It has been developed to be an Information
Exchange Infrastructure with the ability to
provide expanded law enforcement tools to
address crime control and domestic security
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Advantages of a Consortium Approach

• The venture is a non-profit partnership between
  state university
• research personnel and participating law
  enforcement agencies

• Costs are minimized through the application of
  public university
• research resources and participating government
  agencies

• Customization can be done cost effectively.
• Member agencies of the Consortium dictate how
  the program is
• developed and what functionalities it will have.

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How Is the Consortium Governed? A. Membership
provides a vote on the governing board. B. Every
agency has a say in how the program is developed.
The Steering Committee Oversees

• Consortium Finances
• Policies and Procedures
• Development Strategies
• Expansion Efforts
• Work Productivity

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What is the Program Called? FINDER Florida
Integrated Network for Data Exchange and
Retrieval
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What Data Should We Share? (and what appropriate
data can we share?)

• Pawn Data

Version 1

• Pawnshop Transactions, Transports

• Persons Vehicles Data

Version 2

• Field Interrogations Contacts, Records

• Crime Analysis Data

Version 3

• Trends, MOs, Subjects, Bulletins, Maps

• Other Data as Directed

Version 4
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No Longer Do We Have to Rely on
Data
Agency 2
Server
Firewall
Agency 1
Firewall
Data
Server
Agency 3
Central
Firewall
Data
Server
IBM AS/400
Agency 5
Agency 4
Firewall
Firewall
Data
Data
VAX
a Centralized Server
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Distributed Data Sharing System
Agency A Data Sharing Mini-Server
Agency A Records Management System
CJNet
CJNet
Agency D Records Management System
Agency B Data Sharing Mini-Server
Agency D Data Sharing Mini-Server
Agency B Records Management System
CJNet
CJNet
Agency C Data Sharing Mini-Server
Agency C Records Management System
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How It Works Within the Agency
Records Management Server (agency mainframe)
Data Sharing Server (web services box)
Data Sharing Appl.
CJNet
Web Service
(to other agencies)
Data
Transport Translation
Name
Name

• The Data Sharing Server
• hardware should include
• P4 Pentium processor
• 80GB of storage
• 1GB of RAM
• The Data Sharing Server
• software should include
• MS SQL Server License
• Dot Net Web Service
• Data Sharing Application

(parser software)
The initial translation of the data can go
back two or three years. Then the new records
can be added daily, hourly, or continually,
based on the local automation environment.
The agency will have its firewalls and its data
systems. The router and CJNet services are
provided by FDLE.
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I-4 Corridor SR 528 Pilot Phase
August 2002 to July 2003
Volusia
Initial Counties
Seminole
Seminole Orange Osceola Polk Hillsborough
Orange
Brevard
Osceola
Outlying Counties
Polk
Hillsborough
Volusia Brevard Pinellas
Pinellas
Initial Municipalities Orlando Tampa
Altamonte Springs Kissimmee Current University
Partners University of Central Florida
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Holmes
Jackson
Santa Rosa
Okaloosa
Nassau
Walton
Washington
Gadsden
Jefferson
Escambia
Tallahassee
Hamilton
Madison
Calhoun
Leon
Bay
Duval
Baker
Columbia
Liberty
Wakulla
Suwanee
Taylor
Union
Clay
Lafayette
Gulf
St Johns
Franklin
Bradford
Alachua
Gilchrist
Putnam
Dixie
Flagler
Levy
Marion
Volusia
Lake
Citrus
Altamonte Springs
Seminole
Sumter
Orange
Hernando
Brevard
Orlando
UCF PD
Pasco
Kissimmee

Hillsborough
Osceola
Polk
Pinellas
Tampa
Indian River
Hardee
Manatee
Okeechobee
St Lucie
Rapidly Expanding
Highlands
DeSoto
Sarasota
Martin
Glades
Charlotte
Hendry
Palm Beach
Lee
Broward
Ft Lauderdale
Collier
Dade
Miami
Monroe
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• MOU Signed and Providing/Sharing Information
• Altamonte Springs Police Department
• Alachua County Sheriffs Office
• Brevard County Sheriffs Office
• Citrus County Sheriffs Office
• Collier County Sheriffs Office
• Edgewater Police Department
• Gainesville Police Department
• Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office
• Kissimmee Police Department
• Lake Mary Police Department
• Longwood Police Department
• New Smyrna Beach Police Department
• Orange County Sheriffs Office
• Osceola County Sheriffs Office
• Oviedo Police Department
• Polk County Sheriffs Office
• Port Orange Police Department
• Port Saint Lucie Police Department

• MOU Signed
• Boca Raton Police Department
• Bunnell Police Department
• Charlotte County Sheriffs Office
• Clay County Sheriffs Office
• Cocoa Police Department
• Daytona Beach Police Department
• Delray Beach Police Department
• Flagler County Sheriffs Office
• Fort Pierce Police Department
• Hernando County Sheriffs Office
• Jacksonville Sheriffs Office
• Lake County Sheriffs Office
• Lantana Police Department
• Lee County Sheriffs Office
• Marion County Sheriffs Office
• Melbourne Police Department
• Miami Police Department
• Ocoee Police Department

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• Processing MOU
• Atlantic Beach Police Department
• Avon Park Police Department
• Bradford County Sheriffs Office
• Broward County Sheriffs Office
• Cape Coral Police Department
• Cocoa Beach Police Department
• Coral Gables Police Department
• Eustis Police Department
• Florida AM University
• Fort Myers Police Department
• Holmes Beach Police Department
• Leesburg Police Department
• Manatee County Sheriffs Office
• Martin County Sheriffs Office
• Mont Dora Police Department
• Ocala Police Department
• Ormond Beach Police Department
• Okeechobee Sheriffs Office

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A FEW OF THE SUCCESS STORIES Hillsborough
County Sheriffs Office (First success came
quick) Automobile Burglary Osceola
County Sheriffs Office Hotel room burglary
with recovery of 12,000.00 in jewelry
Citrus County Sheriffs Office Residential
burglary - property recovered
Orange County Sheriffs Office Armed Robbery
There are over 300 documented success and
their growing everyday!
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How Much Does It Cost?
Non-Profit Public Partnership Directed by the
Member Law Enforcement Agencies
Annual Contribution Schedule (Revised
10-24-03) gt500
10,000 250-499 7,500
100-249 5,000
0-99 2,500
Vigorous Efforts to Acquire Government Grants and
Appropriations are Ongoing
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What Form of MOU Is Required? (a 3-year agreement
with right of cancellation)
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So, What Does Joining the Law Enforcement Data
Sharing Consortium Bring to Your Agency?

• A seat on the Steering Committee and
  participation in the development of the program.
• Access and connection to the FINDER program.
• a. A cost effective data integration project.
• b. No additional cost to get connected in the
  future.
• c. No user or seat licenses.
• Full Technical Support and Upgrades.
• Distributed architecture allows agencies to
  retain control of their data and share what they
  want to.
• CRIMS Program (Critical Response Infrastructure
  Management
• System)
• Pawn Suite (Agency, Pawn Shop, NCIC/FCIC Switch)
• The ability to solve law enforcement technology
  problems

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Public Safety Technology Center
Domestic Security And Crime Control

Website http//pstc.ucf.edu/
A link to the following site is in the left
column of the web page, or use this direct access
address
Data Sharing Consortium
Website http//druid.engr.ucf.edu/datasharing/
For more information on the Consortium please
contact
Mike McKinley, Orange County SO, Chair
407-823-4242 mike.mcKinley_at_ocfl.net Jim McClure,
Orange County Sheriffs Office 407-823-1689 Jim.mc
clure_at_ocfl.net
Kunal Motwani, Staff 407-823-0830
kmotwani_at_mail.ucf.edu Ron Eaglin,
Professor 407-823-5937 reaglin_at_mail.ucf.edu Mike
Reynolds, Professor 407-823-2943
kreynold_at_mail.ucf.edu
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Application Demonstration