This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554) provides $2,000,000 in funding to the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management (OPM) for the following projects:
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Sustaining support for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection's (DESPP) Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) and Criminal History Repository (CCH), including enhancing data quality and contributions to the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system.
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Funding Phase 2 of the Connecticut Judicial Branch's Protection Order System Modernization Project to enhance the state's court-based electronic document management system.
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Integrating the Connecticut Deadly Weapons Offender Registry (DWOR) data maintained by DESPP into the state's Unified Justice Information Gateway/Connecticut Information Sharing System (CISS) to create a centralized access point for criminal justice data.
The award period is from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026 and aims to improve the quality, completeness, and accessibility of Connecticut's criminal history record systems to support background checks and law enforcement operations.
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