Pre-Symposium Workshops
Symposium Day 1
Symposium Day 2
Symposium Day 3
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Keynote Presentation
Hear from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding current and planned information sharing initiatives. The DHS has broad-ranging responsibilities for customs and border enforcement, transportation, infrastructure, emergency management, etc. The National Strategy for Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Act of 2002 served to mobilize and organize our nation to secure the homeland from terrorist attacks. The Mission of DHS is to "lead the unified national effort to secure America. We will prevent and deter terrorist attacks and protect against and respond to threats and hazards to the nation. We will ensure safe and secure borders, welcome lawful immigrants and visitors, and promote the free-flow of commerce."
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Intelligence Fusion Centers: Intelligence, Information, Guidelines and Action
Understand the role, operations, guidelines and actions presently underway in support of Intelligence Fusion Center development throughout the United States. A fusion center is an effective and efficient mechanism to exchange information and intelligence, maximize resources, streamline operations, and improve the ability to fight crime and terrorism by merging data from a variety of sources. In addition, fusion centers are a conduit for implementing portions of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP).
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PLANNING: Strategic Planning Principles, Effective Funding, and Oversight
Information sharing initiatives are complex, multi-agency programs typically spanning multiple levels of government. As such, they require formal organizational structure and standing, explicit governance structure and processes, innovative funding, oversight and ongoing planning to achieve success. During this panel session, explore information sharing planning principles, best practices, and the 10 critical success factors for project success. Learn about a new planning capability assessment tool available to justice agencies and understand how a large metropolitan police department took a vision and made it a reality.
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ANALYSIS: Performance Measurement and Management
Explore best practices associated with building an effective performance management program. Measuring performance, constantly assessing and monitoring critical performance metrics, and tailoring proactive response and follow-up are fundamental components of effective management in contemporary justice agencies — indeed, in any organization, public or private, government or industry, large or small. Effective performance measurement requires a comprehensive management paradigm that: a) defines agency objectives in clear and measurable terms, b) incorporates routine and unambiguous measures of the processes initiated, the resources expended, and the outcome and impact of agency-sponsored projects and activities, c) empowers managers and staff to develop new and innovative responses, and d) monitors and evaluates their impact and influence on critical measures of success.
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IMPLEMENTATION: Identifying and Overcoming Operational Challenges in Information Sharing Initiatives
Long-term projects, such as those that seek to achieve enterprise-wide information sharing, often face challenges at operational, political and technical levels. Hear how jurisdictions have identified and addressed challenges as they have moved forward. Explore effective techniques to prevent, isolate, remediate and overcome challenges. Learn from the experiences of practitioners and peers at different stages of information sharing projects.
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TECHNOLOGY: GJXDM, NIEM and LEITSC — Navigating the Standards Landscape
Investigate a variety of standards initiatives, including the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM), the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), and the Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council (LEITSC) and related standards, and how these programs relate to one another and other emerging standards development activities. A host of standards development initiatives are presently underway throughout the United States and around the world, and navigating this rich landscape is a challenging task for new and experienced technologists alike.
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A Global Perspective on Information Sharing — The U.K. Experience
The Criminal Justice Information Technology office (CJIT) in the United Kingdom has initiated a nationwide information sharing program for "Joining-Up Justice". CJIT's vision is "to increase public trust in the effectiveness of the criminal justice system by bringing more criminals to justice and putting the interests of law-abiding citizens first." CJIT will achieve this by "delivering a modern and joined-up criminal justice system that will harness the latest information technology to reduce unnecessary paperwork, speed up processes and improve the criminal justice experience for all." This luncheon presentation will feature discussion of their approach, achievements to date, and directions for the future.
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PLANNING: Leadership for the Long Term: Sustaining the Effort and Demonstrating Value
Information sharing initiatives require long-term investment and commitment, sustained leadership and prolonged devotion. This session will focus on effective strategies and techniques for sustaining information sharing initiatives in the long term, including efforts to demonstrate value in both the short and long terms, maintaining leadership commitment and participation, post-implementation support, procurement, etc.
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ANALYSIS: Effective Analytic Techniques: Using Technology to Create Situational Awareness
Learn about the Chicago Police Department's award-winning Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR) application, and how CLEAR helps the Department identify crime patterns, analyze and interpret information spatially, and plan for resource deployment. Cutting edge technology for crime-fighting will also be discussed, including the Department's Police Observation Devices (PODs) and mobile concept vehicles. The Department's planned CLEARPath initiative, a web-based community policing engagement project, will also be discussed.
Also, explore how individuals can harness the power of the World Wide Web in gathering robust stores of information and intelligence on people, places and events. While this has practical application for justice and public safety information collection, it is also critical to understand the security risks and vulnerabilities when sharing information via the Web. During this session you will learn how hackers locate data on web pages that are not intended for public access and how to protect against such intrusion.
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IMPLEMENTATION: Scenario-based Planning for Information Sharing
Identify methodologies, tools and best practices, and learn how to tightly align scenario-based planning with information exchange modeling and business process mapping and reengineering in information sharing initiatives. Scenario-based planning is a crucial step in understanding and documenting the needs and demands for information sharing among practitioners using real-world examples and experience in a variety of settings. Building realistic scenarios of terrorist incidents, natural disasters, and major criminal or civil events that require information sharing will greatly assist jurisdictions in: elaborating information that is required, identifying communication flows, revealing collection and analytic requirements, and identifying data sources, decision processes, responder needs and response times.
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TECHNOLOGY: Technology Foundations for Information Sharing Systems
Explore a variety of technology foundations, including SOAP and WebServices, that make information sharing possible today. Discuss new and emerging technologies that will enable even greater interoperability in the future. The technology to enable enterprise-wide information sharing is rapidly evolving and is increasingly affordable and available.
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Privacy: Understanding the Needs, Policy and Approach
Sharing information across an enterprise as complex and multi-dimensional as justice, public safety, emergency/disaster management, intelligence and homeland security naturally raises important questions about privacy and confidentiality of information. Moreover, recognizing the growing demand for information by the public and the expanding use of background checks in an increasing array of occupations further heightens concerns. International communities around the world are also struggling with key issues associated with privacy and the need to share information. This plenary session will address the needs, policy and effective approaches to ensuring privacy in the information age.
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Case Study 5
The State of Missouri's Judicial Implementation of GJXDM Case Study
The Missouri Office of State Courts Administrator (OSCA) has undertaken exciting projects that enabled us to migrate legacy case management data to the statewide case management systems utilizing the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM). In this session, we will discuss OSCA's ongoing involvement with the development of the GJXDM, application development approach, lessons learned, and the required technologies to implement a GJXDM Web Service application. We will discuss on-going and future GJXDM-based projects such as the development of a second web service application utilizing the GJXDM to transfer case initiation information from Prosecuting Attorneys to the courts.
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Case Study 6
Wisconsin Justice Information Sharing Initiative: Incident Reporting
Wisconsin, one of the first JIEM participants, is leveraging the SEARCH Reference Incident Reporting Information Exchange Packet Documentations (IEPD). Wisconsin has several pilot local law enforcement sites that will transmit their RMS incident data, using GJXDM, into the Wisconsin Justice Information Sharing Initiative (WIJIS) Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This collation of statewide incident data will allow link analysis to better solve crimes, as well as improved statistical analysis to support proactive law enforcement.
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Case Study
LA County Justice Information Sharing Initiatives
Los Angeles County has implemented several systems that make good use of Justice XML. One system is the DNA Offender Tracking System (DOTS), which is a system all 48 police agencies use to determine if they should take a DNA sample from an arrestee. The system also tracks court-ordered DNA sampling and compliance. Another system is electronic arrest disposition reporting (E-ADR) to the California Department of Justice for Law Enforcement, District and City Attorneys, and the Court. A third system, in design, is a Regional Terrorism Integrated Information System that will allow for data sharing among the 48 different law enforcement agencies in the County.
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Time and space is provided each day for teams representing specific jurisdictions or domains involved in information sharing initiatives to meet, review what they've learned, plan activities, further their planning efforts, and even seek facilitated discussion with specific speakers and/or SEARCH staff to address particular issues of concern.
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Speaker Presentations
