Information Sharing:Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities

Information Sharing:Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities

The National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan

(NCISP)

Sharing information in Public Safety• The concept and need is widely accepted, BUT;

• Is misunderstood • Has obstacles and oppositions• Data control is an issue (who sees what)• Can have legislative restraints• No longer discipline specific• Information vs intelligence• Funding can be an issue

• Most initiatives are regional and within state boundaries

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Sheriff/Police

Unisys

DA’s Office

NT

Corrections

IBM

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Probation

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Courts

IBM

911 Center

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Sheriff/Police

DA’s Office

Corrections

Probation

Courts

911 Center

Database

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Desktop integration and data exchange powered by JNET

OtherState Systems

Central Repository

Information Sharing Methods:

OtherState

SystemsSheriff/Police

Corrections

Courts

Database

Database

DA’s Office

Probation

Database

Database

911 Center

Database

Middleware softwareMiddleware software

QUERYSERVICE

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Courts

911 Center

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OtherState

Systems

Message Hub

Point-to-point CentralRepository

Middleware

Message Hub

Information May Need to Be Classified

• Information may be:• Incident based• Intelligence• General information• Obtained from private sources

(Lexis-Nexis, Choicepoint, city, county, etc.)

• The classification of information will determine who can use it and how it can be used

• Not all information will be used by all users

Making the Jump Across State Lines

• A few national/multi-state projects• NCIC• Triple III• Nlets• NSOPW

• The greatest misunderstood project by;• The ACLU• The media • The public

• BUT not by agencies using it

MATRIX

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MATRIX Lessons Learned:• Strong foundation before transitioning into implementation

• Projects are bound by an understanding among participants

• Although MATRIX understood its mission and goals, the mission was not formalized and articulated to a wide audience

• Leadership is extremely critical in the success

• Involve private-sector privacy experts to assist in developing and vetting a privacy policy;

• If possible, the privacy policy should be available to the public

• Describe information collected and how information is stored

• Ensure all other policies and internal controls are consistent with the privacy policy

Fusion Center Guidelines—Law Enforcement, Public Safety, and the Private Sector

Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global)

Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC)

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

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

Privacy Policy Development Guide• Geared toward the justice practitioner charged with developing or revising an

agency’s 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 necessary—share critical justice information

The Design:• Distributed model• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)• 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 63 weeks – over 611 million hits

NSOPR Web Server

Search sent to states’ repositoriesSearch sent to server

Internet

Citizen enters data

Server delivers results to web page

Citizen selects name to view data

Search resultsback to server

Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website

Current status50 States + District of Columbia + Guam

Best practices:• Identify the stakeholders• Leverage work already completed• Cleary identify the policy decision maker• Cleary identify the technical lead• Adapt to what already exists

Lessons learned:• Keep policy and technology separate• Be open to suggestions from stakeholders• Realize “there is no one solution”• Design tool based on abilities• Federal and state can work together

David P. LewisSenior Policy AdvisorJustice Information SharingDOJ/OJP/BJA

David P. LewisSenior Policy AdvisorJustice Information SharingDOJ/OJP/BJA

david.p.lewis@usdoj.gov202-616-7829