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SEARCH News December 2005 SEARCH Shares in Prestigious Award
CD-ROM Selected for Best of California Awards Program. More »

New SEARCH/BJS Reports Published
SEARCH published two reports in December 2005. More »

November 2005 SEARCH Welcomes New Staff
SEARCH has recently hired four new employees in an effort to meet the expanding needs of the justice and public safety community we serve. More »

O.J. Hawkins, First SEARCH Chair and Executive Director, Dies
It is with sadness that SEARCH notes the death of O.J. "Bud" Hawkins on Friday, November 4, 2005, at the age of 90. More »

COPS Office Publishes SEARCH Tech Guide for Small and Rural Agencies
On November 4, 2005, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) published Law Enforcement Tech Guide for Small and Rural Police Agencies: A Guide for Executives, Managers, and Technologists on its Website. More »

2006 Symposium on Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing
Join your peers at the 2006 Symposium on March 13-15 at the Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C. More »

October 2005 SEARCH Assists in Terrorism Response Exercise
SEARCH assisted in a terrorism response exercise held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 7. More »

September 2005 GJXDM National Virtual Help Desk Goes Live
The IJIS Institute announced today the GJXDM Help Desk is live and available to all users on the Internet at http://it.ojp.gov/gjxdm/helpdesk/More »

August 2005 GJXDM Knowledgebase and Help Desk (Beta) Now Available
On August 1, 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs and the Global Training and Technical Assistance Committee (GTTAC) deployed the new Global Justice XML Data Model (Global JXDM) Virtual Help Desk. More »

SEARCH Facilitates "Webinar"
With many years of experience in both analyzing successful grant-funded initiatives, as well as interoperability technologies, SEARCH was tasked by the USDOJ COPS Office to provide training to the personnel responsible for evaluating this year's Interoperable Communications Technology Program (ICTP) grant applications. More »

SEARCH Maintains Significant Involvement in Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Activities
The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative, an effort by the U.S. DOJ's Office of Justice Programs, is a consortium of key stakeholders and constituencies formed to advise the federal government, specifically through the U.S. Attorney General, on justice information sharing and integration. More »

SEARCH Organizes Successful GJXDM Users' Conference
SEARCH staff organized, helped moderate and presented at the first annual Global Justice eXtensible Markup Language Data Model (GJXDM) Users' Conference, which focused on Data Model implementation and the issues, tools and techniques that will help justice and public safety organizations use the GJXDM to improve information sharing. More »

New Public Safety Technology Specialist Joins SEARCH
Joseph Noce Jr. joined SEARCH July 1 as a Public Safety Technology Specialist. More »

July 2005 Annual Membership Meeting Summary
The SEARCH Annual Membership Meeting was held on July 25-27, 2005 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. More »

May 2005 SEARCH Arizona Member Promoted
On March 28, 2005, Ms. Georgene M. Ramming was appointed Chief of the Criminal Justice Support Division of the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS). More »

Stein New Director of Systems and Technology
Michael Stein has recently joined SEARCH as Director of Systems and Technology, where he develops and directs activities and manages staff under two key program areas: the Justice Technology Resource Center and the National Technical Assistance Program, which includes SEARCH's Justice Information Exchange Model© project and Justice XML initiatives. More »

Interoperable Communications Technology Program Grantee Workshops On-going
SEARCH is holding an interesting series of joint workshops this spring and early summer for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security communications interoperability grantees. More »

April 2005 Interstate Criminal History Transmission Specification Keeps Pace with the Times
The Interstate Criminal History Transmission Specification, designed to provide consistency in the data elements and presentation format of electronically exchanged criminal history records, continues to evolve to keep pace with advances in technology. More »

SEARCH Contributes to New Police Executive Research Forum Publication
Kelly J. Harris, SEARCH Deputy Executive Director, contributed to a book just released by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). More »

SEARCH Kicks-off New Wireless Class
The SEARCH High Tech Training program beta class for a new 3-day course that submerges investigators into the world of wired and wireless local area networks (LANs) and wireless devices was held on March 29-31 at SEARCH headquarters in Sacramento. More »

Hawkins Appointed to SAFECOM's Baseline Working Group
Mr. Dan Hawkins, SEARCH Public Safety Technologies Program Manager, has been selected as a member of the SAFECOM Program's Baseline Working Group. More »

March 2005 SEARCH Presents JIEM to Department of Defense
On March 16, 2005, SEARCH met with data architects and other technologists in the Department of Defense (DoD). More »

SEARCH Featured in New NASCIO Publication
Kelly Harris, SEARCH Deputy Executive Director of Programs, contributed to the recently published Government Information Sharing: Calls to ActionMore »

New Chair Paco Aumand Addresses Staff at SEARCH HQ
New SEARCH Chair Francis X. (Paco) Aumand III, Director of Criminal Justice Services for the Vermont Department of Public Safety, visited SEARCH's Sacramento headquarters on March 11 to meet with staff. More »

David Lewis Visits SEARCH Headquarters
Mr. David Lewis, Senior Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S. Department of Justice visited the SEARCH headquarters in Sacramento March 10-11. More »

SEARCH Board Member Major Alecia Webb-Edgington Appointed to Kentucky Office of Homeland Security
Major Alecia Webb-Edgington has been detailed by Kentucky State Police Commissioner Mark Miller to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to serve as the Deputy Executive Director for Operations and Prevention Initiatives. More »

SEARCH New Mexico Member Jose Ramirez Promoted
Jose A. Ramirez was recently promoted to Inspector within the Department of Public Safety, New Mexico State Police, and assumes a new position as Assistant Director of the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy (NMLEA). More »

January 2005 New Chair and Vice Chair Elected
Francis X. (Paco) Aumand III (Vermont) was elected SEARCH Chair, and Lt. Thomas Turner (Virginia), was elected Vice Chair. More »

Training Center Remodel Complete
SEARCH worked quickly to get the new training center up and running during the holiday break. More »