Cooperative Agreement 2018FUCXK043

The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) was awarded a $1,283,165 Cooperative Agreement under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The grant aims to enhance the completeness, automation, and transmittal of criminal justice records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Specifically, the BCI will work to convert the state's message switch to NIEM/XML formatting, enabling...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded a $1,375,326 Cooperative Agreement under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) CFDA 16.813 to the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP). The funding will support four key projects to enhance the completeness, automation, and transmittal of criminal justice records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Specifically, the award will continue to fund NSP's NICS Record Improvement Program, including a...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded a $3,664,255 Cooperative Agreement to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813). This grant will enable DCJS to develop a secure data quality management portal to monitor data quality, enhance the NICS reporting platform, improve automation and speed of NICS reporting from hospitals, perform audit and compliance activities, serve as a NICS...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813) provides $1,844,414 to the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC) to support various projects to improve the completeness, automation, and transmittal of criminal justice records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Key activities include: 1) Funding a consultant and project manager for 24 months to continue...

The Virginia State Police will use $1,320,000 in funding from the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813), a grant initiative administered by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, to purchase and install 60 LiveScan units across courthouses, police departments, and sheriff's offices throughout Virginia. These LiveScan units will improve the communication and transfer of criminal arrest booking fingerprints and sex offender information, as well as enable automated...

The Indiana Office of Court Technology received a $1,996,055 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813) to develop a new protection order registry. The registry is used by over 30,000 stakeholders, including judges, court clerks, law enforcement, and domestic violence advocates. The current registry uses outdated technology that is difficult to modify, resulting in incomplete and inaccurate records sent to the...

The Department of Public Safety Executive Office of Public Safety Division in Massachusetts received a $2,777,995 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554) to update the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) platform to the NCIC 3rd Generation (N3G) architecture. The primary goals are to improve communication, enhance data management, and meet FBI standards for effective and secure information...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded a $877,946 Project Grant to Northeastern University to conduct a 10-year study analyzing the implementation and impact of the BACKTRACEsystem, a data integration platform used by law enforcement agencies across New Jersey for intelligence-led policing (ILP). The project aims to: 1) characterize different user categories and their data usage patterns; 2) examine how users incorporate BACKTRACE intelligence into their tactics and strategies; 3)...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics through the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813), provides $2,602,000 to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) to support two key projects: The Historical Disposition/Missing Arrest Project: This project will fund salaries, benefits, and consulting services to receive missing arrest data from local agencies, upgrade older records to a more accessible format, and analyze...