Cooperative Agreement 2018MUCXK039

The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) received a $1,283,165 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813). The award will fund efforts to convert the state's message switch to be National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)/Extensible Markup Language (XML) compliant with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division National Crime Information Center...

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 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 Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI), a division of the Judiciary Courts of the State of Indiana, was awarded a $149,130 two-year Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). This project seeks to increase public access to Indiana crime data by creating interactive Tableau-based visualizations on the ICJI website, allowing users to explore trends in...

The Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement (LCLE) and the Louisiana Supreme Court (LSC) have been awarded a $1,123,857 Cooperative Agreement under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP), CFDA 16.813, by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The funding will support the leveraging of technology to improve the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of criminal dispositions and mental health data reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System...

The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute, Inc. (IJIS Institute) was awarded a $3,720,400 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer NO HATE Act (CFDA 16.048) federal grant program. The project aims to increase the number of local law enforcement agencies reporting data to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and improve hate crime reporting by providing funding, technical...

The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) was awarded a $3,664,255 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813). The funding will be used to develop a secure data quality management portal to perform the following key activities: Monitor data quality, identify root causes of data issues, and collaborate with partner agencies to resolve them. Enhance the NICS reporting...

The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority received a $2,111,806 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554). The award will fund the installation of new LiveScan machines in approximately 125 Illinois justice system agencies that currently rely on paper-based or outdated technology for criminal history record submissions. This upgrade will improve...

The Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice received a $1,246,110 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics under the NICS Act Record Improvement Program (CFDA 16.813). The funds will be used to: 1) Implement a statewide disposition task force program to research and improve the completeness, automation, and transmittal of felony, domestic violence misdemeanor, mental health adjudication, and firearm...

Under this $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (CFDA 16.554), the Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) will implement a cloud-based Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) network to connect all criminal justice agencies within the Commonwealth. The funding will allow CJPA to contract with a provider to...