The south carolina law enforcement division (SLED) will use funds to continue the progress made with the technical personnel assigned to administering and maintaining the electronic document…

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) received a $427,269 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) (CFDA 16.813). This funding will enable SLED to continue administering and maintaining an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) to ensure all mental health adjudication orders are entered into the NICS indices within the legally required timeframe. As of March 2023, SLED has entered approximately 115,466 mental health adjudications into the NICS indices, contributing to a total of 143,607 records. The award period runs from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. SLED has implemented processes and dedicated personnel to efficiently enter mental health records and other prohibiting information from state courts into the NICS indices, supporting the enhancement of the background check system's effectiveness.

The south carolina law enforcement division (SLED) will use funds to continue the progress made with the technical personnel assigned to administering and maintaining the electronic document management system (EDMS) in order to ensure that all mental health adjudication orders are entered into nics indices in the time specified by the S.C. Code of laws. One of the largest categories of the nics indices are persons adjudicated as mental defectives, as defined under US code of law, title 18 922 (G)(4). S.C. Code ANN. 23-31-1020 mandates probate and circuit courts to provide court ordered mental health adjudications to SLED for submissions into the indices. In FY 2013, SLED received a one-time federal grant through the improving the completeness of firearms background checks through enhanced state data sharing program to create the SLED nics unit, to include and electronic document management system (EDMS) and a single point of entry interface with the FBI nics indices. These funds have been successfully utilized to implement processes and dedicate personnel to entering mental health records from state courts into the nics indices as well as other prohibitors under US code of law, title 18 922 (G) & (N). As of march 31, 2023, SLED has entered approximately 115,466 mental health adjudications into the nics indices, making 143,607 total records residing in the nics indices.