Cooperative Agreement 2011NSBXK003

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) was awarded a $2,602,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813). The grant funding will support two key projects: The Historical Disposition/Missing Arrest Project, which will enable FDLE to receive missing arrest data from local law enforcement agencies and the FBI, and upgrade older records into a more...

The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) received a $1,039,460 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP; CFDA 16.813) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. NARIP aims to improve the completeness, automation, and transmittal of criminal history records to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Through...

The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) received a $986,398 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. The goal of the NARIP program is to improve the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by providing assistance to states to enhance the completeness, automation,...

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded a $150,000 cooperative agreement to the Delaware State Police under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. The award, titled DELAWARE FY 2021 NARIP, will fund efforts to ensure mental health, domestic violence and expungement related records residing in the Delaware Criminal Justice database are accurate and compliant. A subaward...

The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) was awarded a $2,992,748 Cooperative Agreement under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) to enhance the state's criminal justice data systems and improve the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Under this award, DCJS will collaborate with the New York State Police/Information Technology Services (NYSP-ITS) to modify the primary order of...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) received a $4.8 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) for Fiscal Year 2021. The award period is from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. FDLE will use the funding to modernize the Bureau of Identification and Statistics (BIS) system to increase storage and processing capabilities, create a...

The Quinault Indian Nation (Nation) received a $688,141 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP), CFDA 16.813. The 24-month project will allow the Nation to continue operations and staffing to screen court records and report qualifying convictions and protection orders to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) database. This work aligns with NARIP's goal of making...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) received a $2,509,020 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) (CFDA #16.554). The funding will support two initiatives: 1) Replacement of aging and obsolete LiveScan devices used for criminal record booking throughout Florida, and 2) Assistance for FDLE to implement required updates to the...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) received a $4,125,829 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP, CFDA 16.554) to modernize the state's Biometric Information System (BIS). FDLE's Criminal Justice Information Services Division will use the award funding to upgrade BIS to a cloud-based solution by January 2023 through a sub-award contractual...

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) received a $427,269 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) (CFDA 16.813). This funding will enable SLED to continue administering and maintaining an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) to ensure all mental health adjudication orders are entered into the NICS indices within the legally required timeframe. As of March 2023, SLED...