Under this award, the mississippi department of public safety (MDPS), the parent agency of the mississippi criminal information center (MCIC) requests funds to maintain and improve its existing…

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MDPS), the parent agency of the Mississippi Criminal Information Center (MCIC), received a $493,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP - CFDA 16.554). The funding will be used to upgrade the state's criminal history record system to meet FBI-mandated data standards. Specifically, MDPS will contract with Computer Projects of Illinois, Inc. (CPI) to upgrade the state's message switch to be NIEM-compliant, and with MERIS to create a bulk scanning process to reduce paper backlog and increase processing of criminal history dispositions, expunctions, and background checks. This project aims to improve the quality, completeness, and accessibility of Mississippi's criminal history records to support both criminal justice and non-criminal justice background check processes.

Under this award, the mississippi department of public safety (MDPS), the parent agency of the mississippi criminal information center (MCIC) requests funds to maintain and improve its existing criminal history system. MDPS plans to contract with computer projects of illinois, INC. (CPI) to upgrade the state message switch to meet FBI mandated niem compliant transaction format standards. CPI will provide niem stylesheets along with message key transformation of all the national crime information center (NCIC) keys and apply them to all inbound and outbound NCIC messages. Additionally, MDPS will contract with meris to create a bulk scanning process to reduce the paper backlog and increase the operator processing time. This project will assist staff in the areas of scanning dispositions, expunction, and background checks.