The maryland department of public safety and correctional services is requesting funds to conduct two projects

This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813) supports two projects for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS).

Project 1 provides overtime funding for CJIS staff to process over 12,000 arrests without disposition cases, including updating criminal history records and linking tracking/court case numbers. Project 2 provides overtime funding for DPSCS staff to process a growing backlog of court-ordered and legislatively mandated expungements. This aligns with the Biden administration's focus on offender rehabilitation and reentry. The award period is from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026.

Project 1: missing dispositions and RAP sheet linkage overtime project. The department is requesting funding for overtime hours for cjis staff to process missing dispositions for over 12,000 arrests without disposition cases. This includes processing criminal history updates on the RAP sheet and using skilled research to link tracking number and/or a court case number, errors and required biometric data in case files. Project 2: expungements overtime project. The department is requesting funding for staff in the criminal justice information systems division to process fast growing court-ordered and legislatively mandated expungements. This effort aligns with president biden administrations considerable RE-entry and rehabilitation mandates to make every effort to uphold values of redemption, rehabilitation, and fairness.