The office of criminal justice services (ocjs), in partnership with the ohio bureau of criminal investigation (BCI), plans to use funds to reduce a backlog of sealing and expungement orders by 50%,…

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services a $2.395 million cooperative agreement on July 1, 2026, under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554) to modernize Ohio's criminal records systems and firearm eligibility processes.

The recipient will reduce the backlog of sealing and expungement orders by 50 percent, digitize 90,000 sealed paper records, and convert 200,000 fingerprint cards. The Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, in partnership with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, will expand disposition recovery efforts by creating data crosswalks between the Computerized Criminal History System and local court case management systems. The agencies will also collaborate with the Ohio Supreme Court and system vendors to enhance firearm eligibility determinations by implementing relationship data fields in court systems, reducing processing delays and ensuring compliance with federal prohibitor standards.

The period of performance runs through June 30, 2029. Work is performed at the recipient's location in Columbus, Ohio.

The office of criminal justice services (ocjs), in partnership with the ohio bureau of criminal investigation (BCI), plans to use funds to reduce a backlog of sealing and expungement orders by 50%, digitizing 90,000 sealed paper records, and continuing the conversion of 200,000 fingerprint cards. BCI will help ocjs expand disposition recovery efforts initiated under the 2023 national criminal history improvement program grant by creating additional data crosswalks between the computerized criminal history system and local court case management systems. BCI will also collaborate with the ohio supreme court and system vendors to enhance firearm eligibility determinations by implementing relationship data fields in court systems, reducing delays and ensuring compliance with federal prohibitor standards.