The new york state division of criminal justice services (DCJS) plans toensure that the new york state criminal history repository accurately reflects criminal justice events and properly complies…

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services a Cooperative Agreement for $754,720 on September 1, 2026, under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813).

The recipient will remediate identified defects in the New York State Criminal History Repository to ensure accurate reflection of criminal justice events and compliance with federal and state statutes governing record dissemination, suppression, and sealing. Work includes detailed analysis and documentation of each system defect, assessment of affected record counts and data quality scope, verification of business and system processes with subject matter experts, methodical correction through application code changes and database updates, and reconciliation and re-transmittal of corrected records to the FBI and other federal and state agencies to update historical records across all repositories. This structured program spans analysis, development, testing, and deployment phases.

Performance occurs in Albany, New York, with period of performance from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028.

The new york state division of criminal justice services (DCJS) plans toensure that the new york state criminal history repository accurately reflects criminal justice events and properly complies with all applicable federal and state statutes governing record dissemination, suppression, and sealing. DCJS will use the FY 2025 consolidated national criminal history improvement program funding to remediate the identified system defects through a structured program of analysis, development, testing, and deployment. This effort will include, identification and documentation of each defect through detailed analysis, including an assessment of the number of records impacted and the scope of the data quality issue, verification with business owners and subject matter experts on the current business and system processes that contribute to each defect, methodical correction of each defect through application code changes, database updates, and where appropriate, revisions to business processes, and reconciliation and RE-transmittal of corrected records to the FBI and other appropriate federal and state agencies to ensure that historical records are updated across all repositories.