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January 2024

Date	Event	Location
January 23-25, 2024 (Tuesday-Thursday)	2024 SEARCH Winter Membership Group Meeting	DoubleTree New Orleans Canal Street New Orleans, LA

July 2024

Date	Event	Location
July 23-25, 2024 (Tuesday-Thursday)	2024 SEARCH Annual Membership Group Meeting	Horseshoe Las Vegas Hotel Las Vegas, NV

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New Jersey State Police Official Joins SEARCH Membership

September 25, 2023

Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) and Firearms Background Checks: Implementation Issues for State Criminal History Repositories and Local Law Enforcement Agencies

September 11, 2023

SEARCH Chair Appoints Three New At-Large Members

August 31, 2023

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Past recipients of O.J. Hawkins Award

(titles listed were at the time of the award)

2020: Ms. Pamela Scanlon, Executive Director, Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) (posthumous award)
2018: Ms. Donna Uzzell, Special Agent in Charge, Statewide Investigation Services, Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
2017: Mr. Billy Clinton, Operations Administrator, Arkansas Crime Information Center
2016: Mr. Owen M. Greenspan, Director of Law and Policy (ret.), SEARCH
2015: Chief Harlin McEwen, Deputy Assistant Director (ret.), FBI, and Chair, FirstNet Public Safety Advisory Committee
2014: Mr. Peter Higgins, Higgins & Associates, International, and Deputy Assistant Director (ret.), IAFIS Program and Engineering Branch, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, FBI
2013: Mr. Ronald P. Hawley, Executive Director (retired), SEARCH
2012: Dr. Gerard Ramker, Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
2011: Mr. David Gavin, Assistant Chief (retired), Administrative Division, Texas Department of Public Safety
2010: Mr. Thomas E. Bush III, Assistant Director (retired), Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
2009: Mr. Gerry Coleman, Director (retired), Crime Information Bureau, Wisconsin Department of Justice.
2008: Mr. Domingo Herraiz, Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S.DOJ
2007: Mr. Roy G. Weise, Senior CJIS Advisor, FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division
2006: Hon. Robert C. Byrd, U.S. Senator, D-WV
2005: Hon. Judd Gregg, U.S. Senator, R-NH
2004: Ms. Carol G. Kaplan, Chief, National Criminal History Improvement Program, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
2003: Mr. Gary R. Cooper, Executive Director, SEARCH
2002: Mr. David R. Loesch, Assistant Director (former), Criminal Justice Information Services Division, FBI
2001: Mr. Timothy P. Sweeney, Executive Director, National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System
2000: Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, U.S. Senator, D-VT
2000: Mr. Robert L. Marx, Senior Systems Specialist (retired), SEARCH
1999: Dr. Jan M. Chaiken, Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
1998: Hon. Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States
1997: Mr. Bishop L. Robinson, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
1996: Hon. Mike DeWine, U.S. Senator, R-OH
1995: Mr. Patrick J. Doyle, Director, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Florida Department of Law Enforcement
1994: Hon. Don Edwards, U.S. Representative, D-CA
1993: Hon. Robert C. Murphy, Chief Justice, Maryland Court of Appeals
1992: Hon. William S. Sessions, Director, FBI
1991: Mr. Richard N. Harris, Director (former), Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
1990: Mr. Richard W. “Pete” Velde, Administrator (former), Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
1989: Hon. Joseph Biden Jr., U.S. Senator, D-DE
1988: Hon. Thomas J. Stovall, Jr., Presiding Judge, 2nd Administrative Judicial Region of Texas
1987: Dr. Charles M. Friel, Dean and Director, Criminal Justice Center, Sam Houston State University
1986: Dr. Steven R. Schlesinger, Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
1985: Mr. Fred Wynbrandt, Assistant Director, Identification and Information Branch, California Department of Justice, and Chairman, FBI NCIC Advisory Policy Board

Past recipients of Gary R. Cooper Meritorious Service Award

(titles listed were at the time of the award)

2020: Mr. Wyatt Pettengill, Special Agent in Charge, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
2017: Mr. Bradley Truitt, Director of Information Systems, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
2016: Mr. Curtis M. Wood, Undersecretary for Forensic Science and Technology, Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security
2015: Major Timothy McGrail, Director, CJIS Division, Missouri Highway Patrol
2014: Mr. David Steingraber, Senior Policy Advisor, National Criminal Justice Association
2013: Mr. Robert Wessels, Vice Chair, Texas Judicial Committee on Information Technology
2012: Ms. Dawn Peck, Manager, Bureau of Criminal Identification, Idaho State Police
2011: Mr. Francis X. Aumand III, Director, Criminal Justice Services, Vermont Department of Public Safety
2010: Mr. Mike Lesko, Deputy Assistant Director, Crime Records Service, Texas Department of Public Safety
2009: Captain Thomas W. Turner, Division Commander, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Virginia State Police
2008: Ms. Diane Sherman, Director, Criminal Justice Information Center, Michigan State Police
2007: Mr. Paul C. Heppner, Deputy Director, Georgia Crime Information Center
2006: Colonel Kenneth A. Bouche, Deputy Director, Information and Technology Command Division, Illinois State Police
2005: Ms. Donna Uzzell, Director, Criminal Justice Information Services, Florida Department of Law Enforcement
2004: Mr. Charles Sexson, Assistant Director, CJIS Division, Kansas Bureau of Investigation
2003: Lt. Col. Jeffrey Harmon, Deputy Chief, Maine State Police
2002: Kenneth E. Bischoff, Director, Administrative Services, Alaska Department of Public Safety
2001: Prof. George B. Trubow, Director, Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law, The John Marshall Law School
2000: Ms. Liane Moriyama, Administrator, Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, Department of the Attorney General
1999: Mr. Gerry Wethington, Director, Information Systems, Missouri Highway Patrol
1998: Mr. Ronald P. Hawley, Assistant Director, Division of Criminal Information, North Carolina Bureau of Investigation
1997: Mr. Phillip J. Renninger, Director, Bureau of Statistics & Policy Research, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
1996: Dr. Francis J. Carney, Executive Director, Massachusetts Sentencing Commission
1995: Maj. James V. Martin, Assistant Director, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
1994: Mr. Owen M. Greenspan, Deputy Commissioner, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
1993: Mr. George B. Tellevik, former Chief, Washington State Patrol
1992: Mr. Gary L. Bush, Kentucky State Police
1990: Major James Kinder, Data Systems, Indiana State Police
1989: Dr. Robert Bradley, Director (former), Information Systems, Missouri Highway Patrol
1988: Mr. Larry P. Polansky, Executive Director, District of Columbia Courts
1986: Mr. Gary D. McAlvey, Chief, Bureau of Identification, Division of Forensic Services and Identification, Illinois State Police
1985: Mr. Paul H. Kusuda, Deputy Director, Bureau of Juvenile Services, Wisconsin Division of Corrections

Statement regarding the Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic

Ongoing actions by federal, state, and local governments nationwide continue to advise citizens and businesses to sharply limit their activities in order to slow the spread of the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease. In light of current circumstances, SEARCH is taking these actions, which will affect our Members, staff, and operations:

Plans for SEARCH’s 2021 Annual Membership Group Meeting and Symposium on Justice Information Technology, Policy and Research, which will take place July 2021 in St. Louis, MO, are underway. Visit the 2021 Symposium website to submit workshop proposals and sign up to sponsor. We are monitoring the situation closely and will provide event updates as needed. Online Symposium registration will be available soon.
All SEARCH business staff travel will resume June 1, 2021.
All SEARCH staff have been authorized and encouraged to work from home through at least May 31, 2021; SEARCH will reopen its office June 1, 2021.
SEARCH is using a variety of tools that enable and support online meetings, training, technical assistance and conference/workshop presentations.

We are continuing to closely monitor the rapidly evolving nature of the Coronavirus and COVID-2019, and will continue to follow recommendations on prevention and spread of the virus by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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New Jersey State Police Official Joins SEARCH Membership

Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) and Firearms Background Checks: Implementation Issues for State Criminal History Repositories and Local Law Enforcement Agencies

SEARCH Chair Appoints Three New At-Large Members

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