The wyoming office of the attorney general plans to use funds to improve access to criminal history records with wyomings criminal records improvement project

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded the Attorney General of Wyoming $951,422 on July 1, 2026, under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554) to improve access to criminal history records through the Wyoming Criminal Records Improvement Project.

The recipient will update Wyoming's message switch to enable the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the data format for all data requests and responses as required by the FBI. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, which serves as the FBI CJIS System Agency for Wyoming and provides NCIC access to authorized agencies within the state, will oversee these technical upgrades. The project also funds replacement of an outdated livescan system in one sheriff's office, enabling electronic transmission of fingerprint cards to the Division of Criminal Investigation. This replacement will improve timeliness of criminal arrest record updates from that county and reduce the risk of fingerprint card loss.

The award period runs from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029, with place of performance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The assistance type is a Cooperative Agreement.

This project aims to make the required updates to wyoming message switch enabling national information exchange model (niem) extensible markup language (XML) as the data format for all data requests and responses as required by the FBI. The wyoming division of criminal investigation (DCI) serves as the FBI cjis system agency for wyoming and as such is responsible for providing ncic access to authorized agencies within wyoming. Funding would also be used to replace an outdated livescan in one sheriffs office which would allow them to transmit fingerprint cards electronically to DCI. This would improve the timeliness of updating criminal arrest records from that county as well as reduce the risk of fingerprint cards being lost.