The connecticut office of policy and management requests funds on behalf of the connecticut department of emergency services and public protection (DESPP), the connecticut judicial branch, and the…

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $2,000,000.00, was provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) (CFDA 16.554). The award supports multiple projects for the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP), the Connecticut Judicial Branch, and the Connecticut Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS-CT) Governing Board. Key activities include: 1) Sustaining the DESPP's repository switch support and Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)/Computerized Criminal History (CCH) support efforts, including implementation of Clean Slate legislation, contribution of legacy palm print records to the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, and CCH data quality metrics; 2) Funding phase 2 of the Connecticut Judicial Branch's Protection Order System modernization project; and 3) Integrating the Deadly Weapons Offender Registry (DWOR) data from DESPP into the state's Unified Justice Information Gateway/Connecticut Information Sharing System (CISS). The award period runs from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2026.

The connecticut office of policy and management requests funds on behalf of the connecticut department of emergency services and public protection (DESPP), the connecticut judicial branch, and the connecticut criminal justice information system (CJIS-CT) governing board for the following projects: 1) sustain repository switch support and abis/CCH support efforts. DESPP requests funds to continue the support of the abis and CCH technology changes implemented in july of 2021, to support the implementation and design of clean slate efforts legislatively enacted in 2021 through the present, to add to the effort to contribute legacy palm print records to the FBI NGI system, to continue the analysis, assessment, and planning related to the ongoing sustainability of its internally developed message switch known as the connecticut on-line law enforcement communications teleprocessing, to provide ongoing support of CCH data quality metrics program, and to continue supporting connecticuts participation in the national crime prevention and privacy compact and search meetings. 2) court-based electronic documents management system. The connecticut judicial branch requests funds for phase 2 of the states protection order system modernization project. 3) unified justice information gateway-connecticut information sharing system (CISS)/deadly weapons offender registry (DWOR) integration. CJIS-CT seeks assistance to add DWOR data from DESPP to CISS for a seamless one-stop-shop location of CJIS data and source systems.