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Pima County, AZ Justice-Health Integration Project

Emergency Management
2014 Best of NIEM winner

Like many jurisdictions across the country, Pima County, Arizona faces challenges managing offender care and their successful re-entry into the community as service demands increase and budgets decrease. The Pima County Justice-Health Integration Initiative used NIEM to leverage participating...

Wisconsin Department of Corrections

Justice
2014 Best of NIEM winner

Previously, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) shared offender information with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) via batch files once a day. Information was sometimes up to 36 hours old—a risk when law enforcement needed up-to-date information to make decisions on public and...

New York State Justice Center Incident Report

Human Services
Justice
2013 Best of NIEM winner

The New York State Justice Center is a joint program supported by New York State Information Technology Services, State Education Department, Department of Health, Office for Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Office for Children and Family Services, Office of Mental Health, and Behavioral...

Open Justice Broker Consortium – Subscription/Notification

Justice
2013 Best of NIEM winner

Probationers and parolees may have contact with law enforcement—such as an arrest—however, their probation or parole officers might not learn about this contact until days or even weeks later. Through an automated information exchange between the state’s booking system and probation and parole...

Maritime Information Sharing Environment

Maritime
2013 Best of NIEM winner

The Maritime Information Sharing Environment (MISE) has provided an internet-accessible, unclassified information sharing framework. Leveraging Business Information Exchange Components, implementation time for new exchanges has been reduced from weeks to days, and in some cases, to hours....

Temporary Resident Biometrics Project

Biometrics
Immigration
Justice
Screening
2013 Best of NIEM winner

The Temporary Resident Biometrics Project (TRBP) was delivered through a partnership of three Canadian government departments—Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)—and the United States Citizenship and Immigration...

Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) Message Broker Service

Emergency Management
2013 Best of NIEM winner

The City of Richmond has partnered with alarm monitoring companies to create the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP), which provides an automated method for the rapid exchange of data between alarm monitoring companies and 9-1-1 public safety answering points. The NIEM-conformant ASAP reduces...

Northern Virginia CAD2CAD Exchange

Emergency Management
2011 Best of NIEM winner

Four jurisdictions in Virginia (Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax, and Fairfax County) sharing emergency equipment since the 1970s previously determined "closest unit" availability by a series of phone calls between dispatch centers. Using the Northern Virginia CAD2CAD...

Iowa Criminal Justice Information Sharing (CJIS) Project

Justice
2011 Best of NIEM winner

State and local law enforcement agencies were using agency-specific IT systems. Over the past five years, the team created the Iowa Criminal Justice Information Sharing (CJIS) Project by adding a Service Oriented Architecture superstructure on top of, in between and separate from these agency...

Pennsylvania Data Quality Framework Project (DQ2)

Justice
2011 Best of NIEM winner

By collaborating on a customized toolkit that coached counties on law enforcement best practices, 33 independently run counties in Pennsylvania now use NIEM schema for case management. The result of the Pennsylvania Data Quality Framework Project (DQ2) is an average improvement of 271 percent in...