Under this award, the superior court of guam (judiciary) requests funds to improve the quality, completeness, and timeliness of guams criminal history records by providing adequate resources to…

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) (CFDA 16.554), provides $312,829 to the Superior Court of Guam to improve the quality, completeness, and timeliness of Guam's criminal history records. The project activities include procuring enterprise-level uninterrupted power supply devices, network switches and routers, and IT network auditing software. Additionally, the grant funds will be used to hire personnel and provide advanced IT training for the court's Management Information Systems Division. This funding aims to ensure that accurate criminal history records are available for use by law enforcement and criminal justice entities, while also enhancing the court's IT infrastructure and adherence to CJIS security standards. The award period runs from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2026.

Under this award, the superior court of guam (judiciary) requests funds to improve the quality, completeness, and timeliness of guams criminal history records by providing adequate resources to support the sharing of eligible records available to the FBI ncic. The judiciary proposes to provide adequate equipment to ensure that accurate records are available for use by law enforcement and criminal justice-related entities and to enhance IT support to adhere to cjis security standards and proactively manage and protect the judiciarys IT infrastructure and its criminal history systems. Project activities include procuring enterprise-level uninterrupted power supply devices, network switches and routers, and IT network auditing software. In addition, grant funds will be used to hire personnel and provide advanced IT training for its management information systems division.