Information Sharing and Other BJA Initiatives

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Information Sharing and Other BJA Initiatives

• NAJIS Conference
• September 22, 2006

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Presentation Structure

• BJA Overview
• Policy Issues
• BJA Initiatives
• Information Sharing Initiatives
• Training and Technical Assistance
• Funding Picture

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B J A Overview
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BJA Background

• A component of the Office of Justice Programs,
  U.S. Department of Justice, which also includes
• National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
  Prevention (OJJDP)
• Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

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BJA Three Components

• Policy
• Programs
• Planning
• These components administer grant programs,
  shape and promote sound justice policy, and plan
  for fiscal and legislative changes affecting over
  7,000 grants.

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BJAs Office of Policy

• Provides oversight and guidance to BJAs national
  programs and services as well as innovative
  regional and local efforts.
• Develops leadership opportunities for BJA and its
  partners in law enforcement and other criminal
  justice components

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P O L I C Y I s s u e s
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Cutting Edge Policy Issues

• Methamphetamines
• Homicide Investigation/Clearance
• Law Enforcement Leadership Development
• Law Enforcement Safety (Traffic, Armor, etc)
• Witness/Victim Intimidation
• Criminal Intelligence/Counterterrorism

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Cutting Edge Policy Issues

• Court/Judicial Security
• Forensic Investigations/Cold Cases
• Intelligence Fusion Centers
• Less Lethal Law Enforcement Technology
• Counterterrorism Strategies
• Identity Theft Prevention/Training for LEOs

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Cutting Edge Policy Issues

• Street Gangs
• Sex Offender Monitoring/Management
• Auto Theft
• Human Trafficking
• Interoperability
• Information Sharing

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B J A I N I T I A T I V E S
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BJA Training initiatives

• SLATTState and Local Anti Terrorism Training
  Program
• CenTFCenter for Task Force Training
• 28 CFR part 23
• US DOJ Global XML
• Computer Investigations, Forensics, and
  Intelligence Analysts

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State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program
(SLATT)

• A training and research program to provide
  pre-incident awareness, prevention, and
  interdiction training and information to state
  and local law enforcement
• Focus is on the detection, investigation, and
  prosecution of extremist/terrorist-based crimes
• Joint effort with the FBI

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Center for Task Force Training (CenTF) Program

• Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau
  of Justice Assistance, since 1991
• Training focuses on multiagency narcotics
  enforcement operations
• Current course offerings
• Narcotics task force operation
• Methamphetamine investigation management
• Specialized training events
• Tribal methamphetamine investigation management

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Criminal Intelligence for the Chief Executive

• Based on the law enforcement executive training
  classification, specified in the National
  Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
• Focuses on criminal intelligence sharing, the
  intelligence function, intelligence-led policing,
  and legal and privacy issues
• This course is critical to the development and/or
  enhancement of an intelligence function within a
  law enforcement agency, regardless of the
  agencys size

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Development of an Intelligence Commanders Course

• The focus of this course will be the intelligence
  commander/supervisor of an agencys intelligence
  unit
• Objectives of the course will include
  understanding the criminal intelligence process,
  intelligence-led policing, and the role of the
  commander/supervisor in enhancing public safety
• A focus group is being held on August 22, 2006 to
  begin the development of curriculum

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28 CFR Part 23Criminal Intelligence Systems
Operating Policies Training and Technical
Assistance

• Four-hour training that outlines 28 CFR Part 23,
  a guideline for law enforcement agencies that
  operate federally funded, multijurisdictional
  criminal intelligence systemstraining topics
  include
• Overview of the regulation
• Complying with the regulation
• Storing criminal intelligence
• Inquiry and dissemination issues
• Review-and-purge process

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Dealing with the Gang Problem
2005 National Gang Threat Assessment A
collaborative effort among federal, state, and
local law enforcement agencies to develop a
unique, multilevel perspective on the nations
gang problem.
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Preventing Gang Involvement in Elementary and
Middle School Youth

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National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)
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Sharing Information and Intelligence within Law
Enforcement

NCIRC
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RISS Geographical Regions
MOCIC Springfield, MO
NESPIN Franklin, MA
WSIN Sacramento, CA
MAGLOCLEN Newtown, PA
RMIN Phoenix, AZ
ROCIC Nashville, TN
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RISS Overview

• Six information sharing intelligence centers
• As of June 30, 2004, over 7,000 municipal,
  county, state, federal, and tribal law
  enforcement agency members

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Only available through RISS and LEO
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INFORMATION SHARING INITIATIVES
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Examples of BJA Information Sharing Projects

• 28 CFR Part 23
• Applying Security Practices
• CAD/RMS Functional Specs and IEPDs
• Capabilities Assessment Toolkit
• CISAnet
• Executive Intelligence Training
• Federated ID/Privilege Management
• Fusion Center Guidelines
• Gang Information Sharing Initiative
• GJXDM
• GJXDM Policy Academy
• GJXDM Tools (SSGT, Listserv, Bugzilla, etc.)
• GJXDM User's Conference/Implementer's
  Course/Executive Briefing
• GJXDM User's Guide
• IEPD Clearinghouse
• IEPD Guidelines

• Justice Reference Architecture
• Justice Resources CD
• Justice Standards Clearinghouse (JSC)
• Knowledgebase/Helpdesk
• NCISP
• NIEM
• NMVTIS
• NSOPR
• Pegasus
• Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
• Privacy Policy Development Guide
• Promoting SOA
• Regional Sharing Initiatives
• RISS
• SAVIN guidelines
• Technical Assistance
• Training and Outreach

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Justice Reference Architecture (JRA)

• Service orientation
• Open standards
• Supports implementation interoperability
• Supports state and local justice agency exchanges
• Partnership of government practitioners and
  industry vendors (IJIS)

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Justice Reference Architecture Liaisons

• Coordinating with DOJ LEISP on FBI systems like
  N-Dex.
• Coordinating with DNI on Fusion Center exchanges.
• Tracking architecture work done by emergency
  management groups.
• Tracking HealthIT architecture.

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A Plug-and-Play Architecture

• Think about stereo connectors
• The reference architecture needs to be modular
• Cleanly separated components
• Substitutable components
• Rigorous technical standards are required to make
  this a reality

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The Modular Pieces

• Information Model
• Interchangeable vocabularies (GJXDM/NIEM, EDXL,
  HL7) and exchange schemas (IEPDs)
• Composable components to create new exchange
  schemas quickly and easily
• Service Interaction Profiles (messaging)
• Interchangeable profiles like Web services, MQ,
  wireless, etc.
• Composable micro-services to create new services
  quickly and easily

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The National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
(NCISP)
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Fusion Centers
Guideline Development a phased approach

• Law Enforcement Intelligence
• Public Safety
• Private Sector

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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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Privacy Policy Development Guide

• Geared toward the justice practitioner charged
  with developing or revising an agencys privacy
  policy
• A practical, hands-on resource providing
  sensible guidance to develop a privacy policy
• This guide is the next logical step forthose
  justice entities ready to move beyond awareness
  to 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
  necessaryshare critical justice information

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State Automated Victim Notification (SAVIN)
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Computer Aided Dispatch and Records Management
Systems(Functional and Technical Standards)
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Justice Information Exchange Model(SEARCH)
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National Sex Offender Public Registry
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The Design

• Distributed model
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Web Services
• US DOJ XML
• National search engine, local control

The Results

• Connected 22 sites in 60 days
• Connected additional 28 sites in 5 months
• Over 27 million hits in first 48 hours
• Peeked at 977 hits per second
• After 43 weeks over 349 million hits

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National Sex Offender Public Registry
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Average hits per day
Week ending 4/16/06
Week ending 8/21/05
Week ending 11/20/05
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How the site is being used

• RI, KY, and TX used the site to check evacuees
  from LA and MS.
• H.R. 3402 requires International Marriage Brokers
  to check all their clients against NSOPR or the
  state sites
• Department of State has recommended the residents
  of a home taking in a foreign exchange student

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Next phases

• Connect US Territories and Tribal agencies
• Create zip code radius search
• Review mapping capabilities
• Bring states together to identify needs

Future plans

• Provide plug ins for states
• Mapping
• E-mail notification
• Create communication network
• SOR management
• Sex offender management
• Meet needs to access information in other ways

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G J X D M
N I E M
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What is the GJXDM?

• common vocabulary for exchanging information
  between justice information systems
• An object-oriented structure for defining
  relationships between data elements
• A reference for standardizing code table values
  from authoritative sources (e.g. NCIC)
• A methodology for creating electronic versions of
  documents to be exchanged

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How does it work?
Implement system
Define Exchanges
Create document schema
Validate Against GJXDM
Determine data to be included
Register in repository
Sub-schema Generator tool
JIEM Modeling tool
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Origin of NIEM

• NIEM was launched on February 28, 2005, through a
  partnership agreement between the U.S. Department
  of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of
  Homeland Security (DHS)

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What is NIEM?

• Vision
• Become the Standard, by Choice, for Government
  Information Exchange
• Local / State / Tribal / Federal
• Business Driven Focus
• NIEM works by modeling exchanges in business
  context
• NIEM leverages precise vocabularies managed by
  Communities of Interest
• NIEM enables standards for national priority
  Information Exchanges

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Built on the Global JXDM

• The Global Justice XML Data Model (Global JXDM)
  has
• A robust, mature framework that is rich,
  flexible, and extensible
• An effective governance mechanism
• NIEM builds on the demonstrated success of the
  Global JXDM
• NIEM was based on the Global JXDM
• The Global JXDM will form the justice domain of
  NIEM (the jxdm namespace)
• The XSTF will continue to represent the Global
  JXDM within NIEM
• This body will potentially serve as a model for
  other NIEM domains

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NIEM Characteristics

• Information Model
• Based on Open Standards
• Information Exchange Packages (IEPDs)
• Tools
• Graphical Browser
• Schema Subset Generator (SSGT)
• IEPD Tool (Interim Repository)

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Web Site Activity

• Average hits / day
• 1,842 pre-beta
• 6,689 currently

• Average downloads / day
• 11 pre-beta
• 97 currently

• Average viewing time
• 17 minutes pre-beta
• 29 minutes currently

• Web site activity for the period from June 1,
  2006 to July 27, 2006.
• Averages exclude the abnormal activity on July
  17th and 18th.
• 2,881 downloads of the release package and
  242,414 hits.
• Downloads refer to the 0.3 and 1.0 Beta 1
  release packages.

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Information Exchange Standards Targeted

• GJXDM IEPDs
• (DOJ) Incident Reporting Fusion Center
  Integration
• (DOJ) Case Management
• (DNI) Terrorist Watch List
• (DNI) Suspicious Activity Reporting
• (DHS) People Screening
• (DHS) Cargo Screening
• (DHS) Emergency Management / Disaster Management
• (DHS) Infrastructure Protection

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NIEM Web Site

• Home Page (www.niem.gov)
• Documentation
• Executive Brief
• Introduction to NIEM
• IEPD Requirements
• Concept of Operations (under development)
• Users Manual (under development)
• Tools (http//www.niem.gov/tools.php)
• Graphical model browser
• Model subset generation
• Information Exchange Package Description (IEPD)
• Other Capabilities
• FAQs
• Downloads
• News / Events (coming)

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Organization Model External View
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NIEM Architecture
Data component - fundamental building block of
NIEM. Data components are the basic business data
items that describe common concepts used in
general business activities Universal components
- Data components (within an information
exchange) commonly shared and understood among
all domains (e.g., person, address and
organization) Common components - Data
components used in exchanges between multiple
domains, but not universally shared (e.g.,
offense, sentence, and disposition)
Domain-Specific - Components managed by a
specific Community of Interest
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Capabilities

• Documentation
• Introduction to NIEM
• Concept of Operations
• User Guide
• NIEM Naming and Design Rules
• Standards
• IEPD requirements specs
• Training and Technical
• NIEM website
• Training materials
• Help desk
• Tools
• Component Mapping Template
• Schema Sub Generation Tool
• Graphical Browser
• IEPD Clearinghouse
• Governance and Processes
• The structure to manage and maintain
• NIEM and its processes and procedures.

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Training and Technical
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Tools
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Graphical Browser
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Schema Subset Generation Tool
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IEPD Tool
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Next Steps

• NIEM 1.0 Release Candidate in October
• Scale Up Governance Activities
• Catalyze Conversion of GJXDM IEPDs by
  Authoritative
• 54 IEPDs in OJP IEPD Clearinghouse
  (http//it.ojp.gov/iepd/)
• PM-ISE national priority target outcomes
• Counter-Terrorism Information Sharing Standards
• Technical support
• Help desk
• Expand FAQ topics
• Develop NIEM training materials
• Expand communications and outreach efforts
• Within existing COIs
• Follow adoption to new domains and COIs
• Executive, legislative, and judicial branches at
  the State, Local, Tribal and Federal levels

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• For more information visit the NIEM web site
  (http//www.niem.gov)
• Contact NIEM by email at information_at_niem.gov

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Training and Tecnical Assistance
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Types of Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)

• Team building and collaboration
• Community partnership development
• Staff development
• Resource identification and management
• Information management
• Program evaluation

• Problem assessment
• Strategic planning and development
• Program sustainability
• Cutting-edge practice (s) documentation and
  identification
• Evidence-based practice (s) identification and
  development

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Supporting state, local, and tribal through

• Onsite technical assistance
• Offsite technical assistance (via telephone,
  e-mail, Internet, distance learning, etc.)
• Peer-to-peer information exchange and mentoring
  (individual, group, or jurisdiction wide)
• Publication drafting and dissemination

• Information sharing
• Conferences, workshop, and training events
  (agenda development, speaker identification, and
  logistical support)
• Curriculum development
• GTTAC GJXDM Training and Technical Assistance
  Committee

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http//it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id192
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Eligibility

• Any state, tribal, or local agency, or
  organization involved in activities related to
  fighting crime or ensuring public safety may
  request TTA from BJA.
• While BJA may not have funding available for a
  specific purpose, we may be able to assist
  jurisdictions in identifying other resources to
  meet a need.
• BJA will entertain all TTA requests related to
  public safety and will make every effort to
  identify avenues of assistance when possible.

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RESOURCES
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BJA Resource CD
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Products on CD

• Security Practices
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Fusion Center Guidelines
• IEPD Guidelines
• Law Enforcement Analytic Guidelines

• Criminal Intelligence Training Standards
• National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
• Privacy Policy Development Guide
• Setting up Wi-Fi
• Web Services Security Issues

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Other Products

• Case Management System Functional Specs (NCSC)
• Corrections Functional Specs (CTA)
• Probation/Parole Functional Specs (APPA)
• CAD/RMS Functional Specs (LEITSC)
• Court Model RFP (NCSC)
• E-Filing Standards (NCSC)

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Resources on CD

• CTG
• Business Cases
• Capability Assessment Tool
• SEARCH
• GJXDM Users Guide
• Governance Document
• Decision-Making Document
• JIEM Documentation
• UNO
• Inadequate Funding Consequences

• NASCIO
• IJIS Concept of Operations
• Enterprise Architecture Toolkit v3.0
• NGA
• Information Sharing
• State Investment Strategies
• NCSL
• Integrated Justice Information Sharing
• Funding Justice Information Sharing

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Resources on CD (Continued)

• IJIS Institute
• Information Security Primer
• Technology Considerations for Integrated Justice
  Information Systems
• International Association of Chiefs of Police
• Criminal Intelligence Policy
• Strategic Planning
• BJA
• Resource Directory

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Other Resources (Not on CD)

• Excellent Series of COPS Documents
• Technology
• Interoperability
• Wireless Communications
• NCJA
• Privacy Documentation (Baseline Info)
• Governance at State Level (Cases)

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Success Stories (on CD)

• Grant Program Success Stories (States)
• GJXDM Success Stories
• J-NET Case Studies

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Monographs (on CD)

• Governance Structures (Local Government)
• Mutual Aid
• Intelligence Led Policing
• Private Sector Partnerships
• Managing the Terrorism Threat

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BJA Regional Information Sharing Conferences

• Being presented in conjunction with SEARCH
• 2 ½ days to discuss information sharing at
  executive, manager, and implementer levels
• Locations
• September 25-27, Jacksonville, FL
• November 28-30, San Diego, CA
• February 6-8, 2007, Houston, TX
• March 27-29, 2007 Minneapolis, MN

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What Resources Have Been Compiled for Fusion
Centers?

• The Fusion Center Guidelines report
• CD contains
• sample policies
• Templates
• Checklists
• resource documents
• Second generation will be ready for release
  shortly

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BJA-DHS Regional Fusion Center Meetings

• Four regional meetings of Fusion Center managers
• Information will be taken to develop a national
  meeting sponsored by DHS
• Meeting locations
• Northeastern August 9-10, Philadelphia, PA
• Southeastern August 28-29, Nashville, TN
• Midwestern September 19-20, St. Louis, MO
• Western October 24-25, Denver, CO

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IJIS Institute

• Training and Technical Assistance
• Help Desk (Knowledgeware)
• Statewide Automated Victim Notification (SAVIN)
  Program
• Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
• GJXDM Training
• IEPD Clearinghouse
• Integration of Transportation and GJXDM
  Standards

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http//www.it.ojp.gov/jsr
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http//it.ojp.gov/iepd/
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Funding Picture
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Overall Funding Trends, BJA
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BJA - FY 2006 Funding, by category
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Crime Prevention 71M

• USA Freedom Corps
• Project Safe Neighborhoods
• Project Child Safe
• Gang Resistance Education Training (G.R.E.A.T)

• Law Enforcement and Youth Partnerships for Crime
  Prevention
• Identify Theft
• National Citizens Crime Prevention Campaign
• Byrne JAG Grant Programs

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Law Enforcement 807M

• Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program
• Less-Lethal Technology
• National Forensic Academy
• National White Collar Crime Center
• Center for Task Force Training Program (CenTF)
• Homicide Investigation Standards

• Smaller Police Departments (IACP)
• Hurricane Katrina Recovery Efforts
• Public Safety Officers Benefits Program
• Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor
• Victims of Human Trafficking
• Byrne JAG Grant Program

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Counter-Terrorism 19M

• State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program
  (SLATT) 100 Events 9,000 Officers Trained
• Law Enforcement in the Post 9/11 Era
• Other Counter-Terrorism Projects
• Counter-Terrorism Working Group
• Counter-Terrorism and Resources for Law
  Enforcement

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Adjudication 64M

• Mental Health Courts
• Tribal Courts Assistance Program
• Tribal Justice Gathering and Listening
  Conferences
• Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative
• Telemarketing Fraud Technical Assistance
• Community Justice and Courts

• Community Prosecution (Prevention Reentry)
• Judicial Training
• Closed Circuit Televising Program
• Urban Court Managers Network
• Capital Litigation Initiative
• Byrne JAG Grant Program

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Substance Abuse 104M

• Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program
• Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program
• Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring
  Program (PDMP)
• Combating Methamphetamine Use
• Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State
  Prisoners Formula Grant Program (RSAT)
• Byrne JAG Grant Program

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Corrections 369M

• Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
• Presidents Prisoner Reentry Initiative
• Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender
  Management Discretionary Grant Pgm
• State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)

• Other BJA funded Corrections Projects and
  Partnerships (Electronic Supervision, Prison
  Industries, Rural Needs, Rural Probation
  Training, Sentencing Options, etc.)
• Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program
• Byrne JAG Grant Program

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Justice Information Sharing 77M

• Global Justice Initiative (Infrastructure/Standard
  s, Intelligence, Privacy, Security)
• National Sex Offender Public Registry
• National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
• IJIS Institute
• Law Enforcement I.T. Standards Council

• NASCIO
• NGA Center for Best Practices
• SEARCH
• Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)
• National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)
• Criminal Intelligence
• Byrne JAG Grant Program

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JAG Justice Assistance Grant

• Proposed to streamline justice funding and grant
  administration, the Edward Byrne Memorial
  Justice
• Assistance Grant (JAG) Program (42 U.S.C.
  3750)Allows states, tribes, and local
  governments to support a broad range of
  activities to prevent and control crime based on
  their own local needs and conditions.
• JAG blends the previous Byrne Formula and Local
  Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG) Programs to
  provide agencies with the flexibility to
  prioritize and place justice funds where they are
  needed most.

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Purpose Areas

• JAG funds can be used for state and local
  initiatives, technical assistance, training,
  personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual
  support, and information systems for criminal
  justice for any one or more of the following
  purpose areas
•          Law enforcement programs
•          Prosecution and court programs
•          Prevention and education programs
•          Corrections and community corrections
  programs
•          Drug treatment programs
•          Planning, evaluation, and technology
  improvement
• programs
•       Any law enforcement or justice initiative
  previously eligible for funding under Byrne or
  LLEBG is eligible for JAG funding.

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Byrne-JAG Formula Discretionary
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Office of Justice Programs

• Upgrading Criminal History Program (NCHIP)
• Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT)
• Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)
• State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
• (SCAAP)
• Juvenile Justice Programs
• Office on Violence Against Women Programs

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National Criminal History Improvement Programs
(NCHIP)
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Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT)
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Regional Information Sharing System (RISS)
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State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)
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Crime Information Technology Act (CITA) Program
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Juvenile Justice Programs

• FY 03 264.3M
• FY 04 352.7M
• FY 05 379M
• FY 06 342.7M
• FY 07 Pres Request
• 189.6
• FY 07 House 285
• FY 07 Senate 301.5

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Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
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COPS
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Law Enforcement Information Technology
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State Homeland Security Grant
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Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
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Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program
(LETPP)
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Where We Are

• Justice Assistance
• House passed appropriations bill
• Senate passed appropriations bill
• Homeland Security
• House passed appropriations bill
• Senate passed appropriations bill
• Senate appointed members of conference committee

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http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/funding/
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http//www.grants.gov
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http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/
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Ken Nicolas, Executive Director Office of the
Governor Criminal Justice Division Judy Switzer,
Program Director [phone]
http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/saa/index.htm
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Steps Before Seeking Funding

• Identify the participants/partners
• Inventory of software/hardware
• Identify a clear mission
• What you want to do
• How youd like to do it
• Have a clear written plan
• Create an advisory committee
• Begin meeting
• Reach common ground
• Create/sign MOU/MOA with partners
• Implement standards

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The must have

• Executive Summary
• NO MORE than 2 ½ pages
• The problem
• The solution (include methodology)
• The time
• The cost
• The elevator speech
• Ability to clearly state the project in a short
  amount of time
• Convey the value not only to you, but the masses
  (including that person)
• Strong strategic champion

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Why programs dont get funded

• Not meeting the guidelines
• No clear mission or description of project
• Failure to answer questions
• Roles of partners not defined
• Required partners not identified

• Failure to follow directions
• Length/spacing
• Number of copies
• Binding
• Attachments
• Deadline
• Grant history
• No performance measures

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Bob GreevesPolicy AdvisorJustice Information
SharingDOJ/OJP/BJA
Thank you

• Robert.E.Greeves_at_usdoj.gov
• 202-305-9317