Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (GPIQWG)

What's New:

• New! 9 Elements of an Information Quality Program
• New! Information Quality Program Guide
• New! Information Quality Self-Assessment Tool
   

Resources:

• GPIQWG Products & Publications
• GPIQWG Meeting Minutes
• Information Quality Resources

 

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The Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (GPIQWG) assists government agencies, institutions, and other justice entities in ensuring that personal information is appropriately collected, used, and disseminated within integrated justice information systems.

The GPIQWG addresses accuracy and reliability issues involved in updating criminal history records with subsequent events (e.g., prosecution, adjudication) when those events can not be linked to an arrest notation previously entered into the criminal history repository.  This work includes exploring biometrics technologies and addressing the privacy and information quality issues these technologies present.

In order to formulate a unified and comprehensive approach to privacy and information quality issues, the GPIQWG actively coordinates with the other Global Working Groups.


Vision Statement
To accomplish justice information sharing that promotes the administration of justice and public protection by:

• Preserving the integrity and quality of information.
• Facilitating the sharing of appropriate and relevant information.
• Protecting individuals from consequences of inappropriate gathering, use, and release of information.
• Permitting appropriate oversight.

Mission Statement
To advance the adoption of privacy and information quality policies by justice system participants that promote the responsible collection, handling, management, review, and sharing of (personal) information about individuals.


Selection of Publications

Privacy and Civil Liberties Policy Development Guide and Implementation Templates - This document is geared toward justice practitioners charged with developing or revising an agency's privacy and civil liberties policy and is a practical, hands-on resource that provides sensible guidance for developing a policy. Using this Guide is the next logical step for those justice entities that are ready to move beyond awareness into the actual policy development process. While this manual may certainly be of interest to justice leaders (just as the primer sheet is excellent reading for field practitioners), the target audience is those professionals tasked with getting the job done.

Privacy and Civil Liberties Policy Development Guide and Implementation Templates: Policy Development Checklist - This document is a companion piece to the GPIQWG's hallmark resource, the Global Privacy and Civil Liberties Policy Development Guide and Implementation Templates ("Privacy Guide") and serves as a self-assessment checklist to assist privacy policy authors, project teams, and agency administrators in evaluating whether their draft policy has incorporated all of the Privacy Guide components.

Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Information Quality Policy Development for the Justice Decision Maker - This doucment is geared toward the justice executive to engender awareness about the topic and is a high-level, easy-to-read booklet that makes the case for privacy and civil liberties policy development and underscores the imperativeness of leadership in promoting privacy issues within justice agencies. This privacy executive overview is an excellent primer and educational tool that applies settled privacy principles to justice information sharing systems, addresses applicable legal mandates, and makes recommendations on best practices to ensure privacy, civil liberties, and information quality protection.

Ten Steps to a Privacy and Civil Liberties Policy - This one-page executive overview is targeted to high-level, managerial, and administrative functions within an agency to demonstrate the ten core steps an agency can follow to develop a privacy and civil liberties policy.

Information Quality: The Foundation for Justice Decision Making - With the rapid proliferation and evolution of new technologies, increased data sharing requires increased responsibility for information quality to ensure sound justice decision making. This fact sheet explores information quality as a multidimensional concept encompassing critical relationships among multiple attributes, such as timeliness, accuracy, and relevancy. Hypothetical scenarios are presented depicting situations of good and poor information quality, as well as suggestions on what you can do to improve the quality of your own information systems. Research and resource references are provided for further reading.


Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (GPIQWG) Contact Information:

The Honorable Anthony Capizzi, Chair
Montgomery County, Ohio, Juvenile Court

Mr. Phillip Stevenson, Vice Chair
Arizona Criminal Justice Commission