Under this award, the south carolina state law enforcement division (SLED) requests funds for the ongoing redevelopment of the south carolina computerized criminal history (CCH) repository,…

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554), grants $725,000 to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to modernize the state's Computerized Criminal History (CCH) repository. The award will fund the replacement of SLED's more than 40-year-old mainframe system with an updated platform, enabling numerous improvements such as the addition of a civil applicant processing workflow and implementation of the FBI's Next Generation of Identification (NGI) criminal and non-criminal justice Rapback service. Additionally, the funding will support SLED's conversion to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) XML data communication format for NCIC/III, NICS, and NLETS systems. The project period runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026.

Under this award, the south carolina state law enforcement division (SLED) requests funds for the ongoing redevelopment of the south carolina computerized criminal history (CCH) repository, replacing the more than 40-year-old mainframe computer system with an updated platform. This modernization will allow for numerous improvements, including the addition of the SLED civil applicant processing workflow to streamline applicant processing and implementation of the fbis next generation of identification (NGI) criminal and non-criminal justice rapback service capabilities for real-time alerts to critical events related to applicants.additionally, SLED is working on converting to the national information exchange model (NIEM) extensible markup language (XML) data communication format to the ncic/III, nics, and nlets systems. While south carolina has converted south carolina department of motor vehicle, III, CCH, and probation and parole transactions to NIEM XML, ncic, nics, and the rest of the nlets transactions still remain to be converted. SLED is requesting additional funding to complete these conversions.