The wyoming office of the attorney general plans to use funds to conduct a project that will protect the integrity of wyomings criminal history database by ensuring that accurate records are being…

The Wyoming Attorney General's Office received a $366,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (CFDA 16.554 National Criminal History Improvement Program) to enhance the integrity and accessibility of Wyoming's criminal history database. The project will fund the purchase of LiveScan devices for two sheriff's offices and five Department of Corrections facilities to modernize outdated fingerprint technology. It will also create a system integration interface to automatically populate criminal disposition data, which will significantly reduce the time it takes for this critical information to be available for state and national-level criminal history inquiries. This project supports the Bureau of Justice Statistics' goal of improving the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record systems across the United States.

The wyoming office of the attorney general plans to use funds to conduct a project that will protect the integrity of wyomings criminal history database by ensuring that accurate records are being submitted and by making records more readily available to state and national databases. The wyoming division of criminal investigations (DCI) criminal justice information services (CJIS) acts as the criminal record repository for the state of wyoming. Through this role, DCI periodically assists local agencies with updating technology. Specifically, funds are requested to purchase livescan devices for two sheriffs offices (sweetwater and johnson counties) and five department of corrections (DOC) facilities (located in rawlins, torrington, lusk, riverton, and newcastle). The current machines are no longer supported due to outdated software and old age. This project also includes the creation of a system integration interface allowing the automatic population of disposition information to the corresponding arrest in CCH. This interface between dcis CCH system and the wscs ODW will alleviate the need for manual entry. This disposition data will then be accessible for criminal history record inquiries at the state and national levels. This will drastically reduce the time IT takes for disposition data to be available for those inquiries.