The purpose of the service is to allow law enforcement and public safety agencies to submit information related to suspicious activity to fusion centers. The scope includes electronic system-to-system exchange of information related to suspicious activity between law enforcement/public safety agencies and fusion centers. The service is specifically related to counterterrorism. The scope of this service will be limited to exchange of information collected and documented in Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR). Submission of information related to suspicious activity via phone, fax, e-mail, etc., is outside the scope of this service.

NOTE:  To fully review the purpose, scope, capability offered and real-world effect(s) this service specification intends to address, we invite your full review of the associated Service Description Document (SDD).  It can be located by first downloading the service specification zip file on this webpage followed by navigating to the “artifacts” folder.  There you’ll discover the corresponding SDD for this service.