The Global Reference Architecture (GRA) Framework—is a conceptual framework for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that is based on an industry standard, the OASIS SOA Reference Model, which was developed by a committee of industry and government SOA experts, including some of the Global Infrastructure/Standards Working ...
The intent of this document is to provide guidelines to justice organizations that have interest in following or applying the Global Reference Architecture (GRA) in development of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This document concentrates on an approach to identifying and designing services that will enable effective ...
This document is intended to provide a formal, standardized means of creating and understanding service specifications and service specification packages. This document was revised to Version 1.2 with the following minor changes: Included the use of underscores between words in all folder names.
This Technical Note does not reflect a normative policy position from the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) community of stakeholders. Rather, it is intended to inform participants and practitioners on architectural compatibility issues known to exist between the Global Reference Architecture and ...
The purpose of this document is to establish a Web Services Service Interaction Profile based on the Web Services family of technology standards. A Service Interaction Profile is a concept identified in the Global Reference Architecture. This concept defines an approach to meeting the basic requirements necessary for ...
The purpose of this document is to establish a SERVICE INTERACTION PROFILE (SIP) based on the ebXML family of technology standards. A Service Interaction Profile is a concept identified in the Global Reference Architecture ([GRA]). This concept defines an approach to meeting the basic requirements necessary for interaction ...
The purpose of this document is to provide a reference model framework of expectations and obligations for those entities participating in any state, local, regional, or tribal information sharing enterprise. An information sharing enterprise is a consortium of information service providers and service consumers created ...
The purpose of this document is to provide a sample Service-Level Agreement (SLA), in this case, for a fingerprint service to local, state, tribal, or federal justice and public safety agencies organized under a Statement of Participation or similar umbrella agreement. This document may be consulted as an example to ...
The purpose of this report is to describe the recommendation of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Advisory Committee (GAC) for the design and development of an information system architecture that will support both the operational requirements of justice agencies and the requirements for a ...
This is a pamphlet that offers the reader the opportunity to (1) learn about the U.S. Department of Justice’s Global
Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) and its pursuit of a Justice Reference Architecture, (2) explore the concept of SOA and why it is important to the future of justice information sharing, and ...
The purpose of this document is to elaborate on the concept of execution context as defined in the Global Reference Architecture [GRA]. It will do so by providing guidelines to practitioners overseeing the implementation of a SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA).
The purpose of this document is to establish a RELIABLE SECURE WEB SERVICES SERVICE INTERACTION PROFILE (RS WS-SIP) based on the Web services (WS) family of technology standards and, in particular, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Reliable Secure Profile [WS-I RSP] to the extent practical. A SERVICE ...
This service will provide positive identification or verification based on the submission of fingerprint information. The service receives one or more fingerprint images and returns a biometrically based response which facilitates the determination of the physical identity of an individual.
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This service will be used by state or U.S. government territory designated fusion centers to receive information regarding positive encounters from TSC. The encounter information received by state or U.S. government territory designated fusion centers will be limited to Positive Encounters resulting from the hits by local ...
This service provides a summary of supervision (e.g., probation and parole) conditions to which a specific person is subject to. This capability enables exchange partners to quickly and efficiently perform assessments, determine whether a subject is in violation of any supervision conditions, and support decision making ...
The GRA Service Specification Package (SSP) is a package of 12 templates that developers will find useful when developing a service specification. Please refer to the Global Reference Architecture (GRA) Service Specification Guideline V 1.2.0 (also located within GIST) for practical information on how to use the GRA SSP and ...
The Inmate Release Information reference service standard will allow requesting agencies, e.g. fusion centers, arresting agency, law enforcement, probation, parole, state criminal history repository, prosecutor, public defender, victim advocacy organizations, etc, to request summary or detailed information regarding an ...
The VN Service is a National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)- and Global Reference Architecture (GRA)-conformant national information standard for the exchanges of offender information and notifications from a criminal justice “notifying agency” system to a Victim Notification Provider (VNP) system.
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The Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision (ICAOS, Commission) is an organization of interstate compact commissioners appointed by the 53 member states and territories to make rules that carry out the policies under which offenders are transferred between and among states. Its mission is to guide the transfer ...
Under the federal SORNA (Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006), a sex offender’s SORNA registration jurisdiction (e.g., a state, tribe, or territory) is required to notify the new jurisdiction when the sex offender intends to relocate. The purpose of this legal requirement is to enable the new ...
This is the Arrest Warrant Information Exchange, Warrant Issue Service (AWIE-WI). It is one of a collection of five Arrest Warrant Information Exchange Reference Service Standards that, collectively, provides a framework for criminal justice agencies to communicate and route arrest warrant information throughout the warrant ...
This is the Arrest Warrant Information Exchange, Warrant Query Service (AWIE-WQ). It is one of a collection of five Arrest Warrant Information Exchange Reference Service Standards that, collectively, provides a framework for criminal justice agencies to communicate and route arrest warrant information throughout the warrant ...
This is the Arrest Warrant Information Exchange, Warrant Recall Service (AWIE-WR). It is one of a collection of five Arrest Warrant Information Exchange Reference Service Standards that, collectively, provides a framework for criminal justice agencies to communicate and route arrest warrant information throughout the warrant ...
This is the Arrest Warrant Information Exchange, Warrant Serve Service (AWIE-WS). It is one of a collection of five Arrest Warrant Information Exchange Reference Service Standards that, collectively, provides a framework for criminal justice agencies to communicate and route arrest warrant information throughout the warrant ...
This is the Arrest Warrant Information Exchange, Warrant Update Service (AWIE-WU). It is one of a collection of five Arrest Warrant Information Exchange Reference Service Standards that, collectively, provides a framework for criminal justice agencies to communicate and route arrest warrant information throughout the warrant ...
The PIA Service will provide a summary of the availability and location of information relating to a specific person by querying multiple sources. This capability will enable exchange partners to quickly and efficiently identify the type of information available regarding a specific individual, who is responsible for that ...
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 ...
This is one of three Client Profile Query (CPQ) services, all designed to facilitate sharing of client (subject) information between justice and non-justice domains to provide for better decision-making in regards to supervision and social support as they apply to clients, their families, and the community. Public safety as ...
This is one of three Client Profile Query (CPQ) services, all designed to facilitate sharing of client (subject) information between justice and non-justice domains to provide for better decision-making in regards to supervision and social support as they apply to clients, their families, and the community. Public safety as ...
This is one of three Client Profile Query (CPQ) services, all designed to facilitate sharing of client (subject) information between justice and non-justice domains to provide for better decision-making in regards to supervision and social support as they apply to clients, their families, and the community. Public safety as ...
The Charging Service will assist justice agencies by supporting more efficient and effective sharing of charging information including bill of information and complaints, and indictments to appropriate agencies and individuals within the justice system. The service will obtain charging information from a particular system ...
The Justice/Human Services Subject Contact Subscription Service (SCSS) is designed to facilitate the bidirectional sharing of client interaction information between agencies and programs that bridge the criminal justice and human services domains to provide for better decision making in regard to supervision decisions and ...
The Justice/Human Services Subject Contact Notification Service (SCNS) is designed to facilitate the bidirectional sharing of client interaction information between agencies and programs that bridge the criminal justice and human services domains to provide for better decision making in regard to supervision decisions and ...
The value of stronger communication, and in particular, stronger interoperable “electronic” information sharing between the Justice and Health domains has been recognized by both communities. To that end, the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) embarked on an incremental collaborative process to identify ...
Global has added a new document—the Business Process Description Document (BPDD) Template—to its portfolio of standards associated with the Global Reference Architecture (GRA). It is not uncommon for multiple services to be required to solve a single business information sharing need. For example, lessons learned through ...
The purpose of the Entity Resolution Service (ERS) is to provide a means to analyze a set of entity records, through matching and merging logic, to determine whether the records represent the same real-world entity. An entity is a real world person, place, item, location, etc. It is a companion service to the Merge ...
The purpose of the Merge Notification Service is to communicate information about multiple individual system records that, based on certain criteria, represent the same real-world entity. It is a companion service to the Entity Resolution Service.
Law enforcement support systems (e.g., federated query or link analysis ...
Reporting arrest information is critical in keeping justice business partners and systems up-to-date with current details regarding arrests. This service provides the ability to report new arrests and provide updates to arrests.
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Offender tracking systems generate vast amounts of data; however, community corrections agencies that operate offender tracking programs report that it is often difficult to share this data. This problem is most clearly manifested in cases where an agency is ending its contractual relationship with one offender tracking ...
The Juvenile Education History Query/Response Service (JEHQRS) is designed to support sharing of educational background information among Juvenile Justice Decision Makers who are often responsible for performing youth risk assessments and State Educational Agencies (SEA). The JEHQRS allows a requesting juvenile ...
The Inmate Status Reporting Service provides correctional institutions the capability to report inmate records at predefined events within the inmate supervision life cycle. This service receives inmate records from correctional institutions.
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The Person Photo Search Request Service provides the capability to request photos and demographic data from a Photo Imaging Network and DOT photo systems matching provided criteria. The service will take various combinations of Name, Date of Birth (DOB), Social Security Number (SSN), Operators License Number (OLN), and State ...
The Person Photo Search Results Service provides photos and demographic data from a Photo Imaging Network (PIN) and DOT photo systems.
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 ...
The Booking Reporting Service (BRS) is intended to assist with automating the report of a booking. This service provides the ability to report booking information collected at the booking facility at the time of offender intake. A likely consumer of this service is a jail and/or other booking facility.
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The Global Reference Architecture Training is a free, self-paced, online course that helps justice and public safety practitioners gain a comprehensive understanding of the GRA framework, standards, methods, and processes. It uses interactive, scenario-based training that helps stakeholders—such as executives, senior ...
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