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And Justice for All: Designing Your Business Case for Integrating Justice Information—Business Case Blueprint—Center for Technology in Government (CTG)

This guide provides advice and tools to help the justice professional design and present a strong, persuasive business case to public officials, community leaders, and other justice professionals. A companion document entitled And Justice for All: Designing Your Business Case for Integrating Justice Information—An Executive Briefing for Leaders of Justice Organizations highlights information that is covered in the larger document and provides concise, useful information for justice organizations that are beginning to plan for a justice integration project. An interim report entitled Reconnaissance Study—Developing a Business Case for the Integration of Criminal Justice Information describes the types of initiatives studied, their objectives, and their progress and provides information for the understanding of business case development for justice information technology integration.

http://demo.ctg.albany.edu/publications/guides/and_justice_for_all/and_justice_for_all.pdf

Building Exchange Content Using the Global Justice XML Data Model: A User Guide for Practitioners and Developers—SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics

Integral to the success of the Global Justice Extensible Markup Language (XML) standards effort is the promulgation of written guidelines to facilitate Global Justice XML Data Model (Global JXDM) implementation by the justice community. The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP),
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), awarded a grant to SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, to provide Global JXDM technology assistance and to develop a User Guide to support Global JXDM implementation. A Global JXDM User Guide Review Committee, composed of subject-matter and industry experts, was formed to develop this guide. As a result, Building Exchange Content Using the Global Justice XML Data Model: A User Guide for Practitioners and Developers is now available for users at all levels of technical proficiency and Global JXDM implementation readiness.

While this User Guide is not a primer on XML or data processing, BJA, in developing the outline, realized that the guide needed to reach a broad audience. Through its experience in providing technical assistance over the past year, BJA discovered that agencies and jurisdictions are at varying levels of readiness with respect to implementing the Global JXDM. As a result, the guide was developed for those at the evaluation and exploration stage, as well as for those who have incorporated XML into their systems' architecture but still need instruction and examples defining information exchange packages, queries, and messages.

http://it.ojp.gov/documents/GJXDMUserGuide.pdf

Concept for Operations for Integrated Justice Information Sharing—National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)

This document defines the discipline-specific business functions for integrated justice and explores the architectural implications for state chief information officers, who are responsible for planning the information technology (IT) enterprise architecture. It defines fundamental concepts, principles, functions, and operational requirements for integrated justice information sharing. Additionally, it presents a scenario of integrated justice information sharing and a general methodology for states to use in validating their IT architecture. Finally, it articulates an action plan for the validation, implementation, and use of this document in other disciplines.

https://www.nascio.org/hotIssues/EA/ConOps2003.pdf

Consequences of Inadequately Integrated Justice Information Systems—
University of New Orleans–Center for Society, Law & Justice

This report examines the consequences of failing to create and maintain adequate integrated justice information systems. The study was conducted under the core assumption that adequately integrated justice information systems lead to decreased criminal activity.

http://www.cslj.net/recent/Consequences%20study.pdf

Enterprise Architecture Development Tool-Kit, Version 3.0—National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Architecture Working Group, composed of state, county, and federal CIOs and government and corporate architects developed the NASCIO architecture framework and the explanatory document, the Enterprise Architecture Development Tool-Kit. As part of the Architecture Program, NASCIO continues to serve as a champion of the benefits of sound infrastructure and enterprise architecture. The NASCIO architectural framework is a nationally accepted foundation for information technology architecture development.

The enhancements in the third version of the Tool-Kit result from the expertise and continued dedication of enterprise architecture practitioners from all levels of government and the private sector. Version 3.0 incorporates an updated governance architecture framework with added roles and responsibilities and a focus on multilevel communication. Process models with explanatory narrative are included for governance and the architecture life cycle. The Tool-Kit also includes fully populated security domain and application domain blueprints.

http://www.nascio.org/nascioCommittees/ea/index.cfm?CFID=782321&CFTOKEN=29323130#tool-kit

Improving Public Safety Through Justice Information Sharing—National Governors Association (NGA)

This Issue Brief focuses on the need for justice information systems integration as a vital component of any comprehensive strategy to improve public safety through interagency, intergovernmental, and interdisciplinary communication and information sharing.

http://www.nga.org/cda/files/JUSTICEINTEGRATIONIB.pdf

Information Security in Integrated Justice Applications: An Introductory Guide for the Practitioner—The Industry Working Group (IWG) in Cooperation With the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute

This guide provides an overview for criminal justice practitioners on the security issues they face when planning, procuring, and implementing integrated justice systems. It discusses important security technologies—such as encryption, public key infrastructure, biometrics, firewalls, and virtual private networks—and security standards for an integrated justice environment.

https://it.ojp.gov/documents/info_fsec_fguide.pdf

Integrated Criminal Justice Information Systems—National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

The National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) Integrated Criminal Justice Information Systems project is designed to inform and assist legislators as states develop and improve systems for justice information systems. Through this project, NCSL tracks both proposed and enacted legislation that affect these types of projects.

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/intjust/report01.htm

Integrated Justice Information Systems Governance Structures, Roles and Responsibilities: A Background Report—SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics

This report provides detailed insight into the establishment of governing structures and the roles and responsibilities of governance bodies and their members.

http://www.search.org/files/pdf/Governance.pdf

Integration in the Context of Justice Information Systems: A Common Understanding—SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics

The integration of justice information systems and information sharing, in general, are not entirely new ideas. Many local and state jurisdictions are now actively developing plans and programs to substantially integrate their justice information systems and enable broadscale information sharing. This report is designed to provide a common framework and vernacular for justice systems integration to assist practitioners, developers, and other stakeholders involved in the planning efforts.

http://www.search.org/files/pdf/Integration.pdf

International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP): Criminal Intelligence Policy Paper

This paper accompanies the Model Policy on Criminal Intelligence created by the IACP National Law Enforcement Policy Center. This document provides background material and supporting documentation to provide greater understanding of the requirements for the Criminal Intelligence Model Policy.

http://it.ojp.gov/documents/CriminalIntelligencePaper0703.pdf

International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP): Model Policy on Criminal Intelligence

This document will provide law enforcement officers and officers assigned to the intelligence function with guidelines and principles for the collection, analysis, and distribution of intelligence information.

http://it.ojp.gov/documents/CriminalIntelligencePolicy0603.pdf

International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Strategic Planning Model: Toward Improved Criminal Justice Information Sharing—An Information Integration Planning Model

This document was developed for law enforcement and related communities and outlines the strategic planning needed to develop integrated justice information systems.

http://www.theiacp.org/documents/pdfs/Publications/cjinfosharing.pdf

This project, funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, is designed to facilitate the development of integrated justice information systems planning and implementation throughout the nation. Integration of justice information systems refers to the justice community’s ability to access and share critical information at key decision points throughout the justice process. It is through identification of these key decision points and development of information exchange models that SEARCH will further nationwide integration efforts.

Justice Information Sharing Resource Directory

This online directory of tools supports the development, design, and implementation of strategies to improve justice information sharing.

http://it.ojp.gov/documents/JusticeInformationSharingResourceDirectoryapprovedf..pdf

National Information Architecture: Toward National Sharing of Governmental Information—Produced by the National Association of State Information Resource Executives (NASIRE), now the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)

This report discusses issues related to a national governmental architecture for promoting the sharing of information collected by governmental agencies at all levels nationwide.

http://it.ojp.gov/technology/files/NASCIO-NIA.pdf

Optimizing State Investments for Justice Information Sharing—National Governors Association (NGA)

This Issue Brief provides strategies on how states can finance justice information sharing systems using the existing constraints of stovepipe funding.

http://www.nga.org/cda/files/1102FINANCINGJUSTICE.pdf

Sharing Justice Information:  A Capability Assessment Toolkit—Center for Technology in Government (CTG), University at Albany-SUNY (State University of New York)

This toolkit is designed for justice professionals to use when considering or planning a justice information sharing initiative. It provides a process for assessing where capability for information sharing exists and where it must be developed in order to achieve public safety goals. Assessment results provide a basis for action planning to fill capability gaps both within and across organizations.

This is a self-assessment tool, based on the idea that the persons involved in an information sharing initiative are best-equipped, by their knowledge and experience, to make judgments and supply evidence about these capabilities. The toolkit facilitates discussion within individual organizations, as well as across organizations, involved in an information sharing initiative; guides assessment along 16 dimensions of capability; and guides analysis toward a collective understanding of how to help a specific initiative succeed.

http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/guides/sharing_justice_info/sharing_justice_info.pdf

Technology Considerations in the Development of Integrated Justice Data Exchange Standards—IJIS Institute Industry Working Group (IWG)

This article recognizes that justice organizations have acknowledged the importance of data exchange standards and presents a case for the adoption of standards that would take into account emerging technologies.

http://it.ojp.gov/technology/files/IJIS-Standards.pdf

Who Decides?—An Overview of How States Are Addressing Delegation of Authority and Decision Making in Managing Integrated Justice Information Systems—National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA)/SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics

This publication reports the findings of a national survey of governance structures established by states to oversee statewide and state-level integrated justice information systems initiatives. Users may also be interested in viewing the survey instrument that was used, which is entitled A Survey of Governance Structures for Statewide and State-Level Integrated Justice Information Systems Initiatives.

http://www.it.ojp.gov/manage/files/Who_decides.pdf