The value of information-sharing and exchange efforts can best be achieved through the active participation and collaboration of the many organizations involved in serving our nation and the world.
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...
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...
Each year, presidentially declared disasters result in injury and death, destroy homes and businesses, and disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation. Using NIEM as the foundation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created the Disaster Assistance...
CONNECT is a consortium of five states that have agreed to pool their collective expertise to make interstate information sharing a reality. New York City's Health and Human Service (HHS) agencies serve more than 2 million clients.
Before the HHS-Connect program, case workers were...
The Colorado Integrated Criminal Justice Information System (CICJIS) is an integrated computer information system that links five state-level criminal justice agencies—law enforcement, prosecution, courts, adult corrections, and juvenile corrections—to create one virtual criminal justice...
USCIS is the government agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. USCIS receives and processes 7.5 million applications and petitions per year for more than 50 types of immigration benefits. The current process of receiving and processing these applications and petitions was...
DAIP exists to ease the burden of victims by creating a single access point for more than 40 federally funded forms of assistance (FOA). DAIP consolidates benefit information, application intake, and status information into a unified system. Each year, approximately 50 presidentially declared...
Effective response to large incidents requires real-time collaboration among multiple agencies and jurisdictions. Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), activated during an incident, use many different systems to support operations and situational awareness. Most EOCs are neither interoperable nor...
The Hennepin County Jail sends booking information to other criminal justice partner agencies in Hennepin County.
E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). It works within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA), to provide a means for employers to verify the employment eligibility...
