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SEARCH Program Activities: Overcoming Challenges – Addressing National Priorities

Learn about SEARCH's mission and vision to improve the quality of justice and public safety through information sharing, technology, and responsible law and policy. Explore the four program areas and organization goals, and discover how SEARCH helps policy makers and practitioners manage information technology projects.

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SEARCH Program Activities: Overcoming Challenges – Addressing National Priorities

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  1. SEARCH Program Activities: Overcoming Challenges – Addressing National Priorities Kelly J. Harris Deputy Executive Director Programs Division

  2. Did You Know? • That SEARCH… • Trained over 2200 justice and public safety practitioners in the past year • Administered more than 7 surveys • Wrote 4 Technology Guides • Provided approximately 40 on-site and over 350 in-house technical assistance activities • Holds approximately 45 conferences, training sessions, workshops, meetings, focus groups and task force meetings PER YEAR • Highlights Document

  3. SEARCH’s Mission and Vision • Vision Accurate and timely information, supported by well-deployed information and identification technology, enables the justice and public safety decisionmaker to administer justice in a manner that promotes individual rights and public safety. • Mission SEARCH is dedicated to improving the quality of justice and public safety through the use, management and exchange of information; application of new technologies; and responsible law and policy, while safeguarding security and privacy.

  4. Executing the Mission:Four Program Areas High Tech Crime and Systems Security Public Safety Law and Policy Systems and Technology

  5. Organization

  6. Goals • Focus on Creating a Foundation for Information Sharing Initiatives to Succeed • Help Policy Makers and Practitioners Manage Information Technology Projects Over a Lifetime • Identify and Assess Policy Developments Impacting Justice Information Management • Inform and Educate • Create Forums for National Discussion • Address Cornerstones Of IT Planning and Implementation • Planning and Policy • Analysis • Implementation • Management • Technology

  7. Services • Technical Assistance • on-site and in-house • Training • In-house and on-site across the country • Justice Information Exchange Model • Conferences and Workshops • Online and Print Publications • Policy Assistance • Participation in national initiatives • working groups, committees, and advisory groups • Research

  8. Philosophy • Quality Work in a Timely Fashion • Inspired and Informed by Practitioners • Structured by Accepted Standards/Best Practices • Use Tools to Facilitate • Insure Consistency via Methodology • Impart Lessons Learned • Influenced by National Activities • Leveraging Resources • Remain Independent and Objective • Create 360 Degree Communications

  9. Partners and Clients • You • Practitioners • State and local • Justice and Public Safety • Courts • Corrections • Law Enforcement • The Bar • Integrated Justice Initiatives • Technologists • Tribes • Grantees • Information Sharing Governing Bodies • State Interoperable Communications Executive Bodies • Urban Area Security Regions • Federal Government • National Initiatives

  10. Funding • Federal Grants • OJP: BJA, BJS, OJJDP • Office of Community Oriented Policing • Contracts • OG&T (formerly ODP) • POST • PCCD • IJIS Institute

  11. Growth in Program Areas • Criminal History Record Support • Member Challenges and Activities • Issues and Methodology Merged • Successful, repeatable products • Seeking New Ground for Information Sharing • Requests • Funding Agency • TA recipients

  12. Meeting Challenges in the Field • Difficulty in Managing Major Information Sharing Initiatives • Data and Information • Voice • Urban Area Security Initiatives • Criminal Justice Information Management and Policy Developments • Dealing with the Technical and Legal Complexity of High Tech Crime • IT Security • Policy Development

  13. Addressing National Issues • Global • GJXDM • Intelligence and Fusion Centers • Security • Privacy • Infrastructure Working Groups • National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) • DHS Messaging Standard Pilot Projects • Input on Department of Justice Backgrounding Report • NIMS ICS Communications Unit leader training • Urban Area Security Initiatives/Interoperability • N-Dex • CyberCrime Strategies

  14. The Breakout Sessions • Public Safety Programs: Evolution, Growth and Relevance to Your State’s Information Sharing Initiatives • Solving Technology Challenges in the Justice Community: Systems and Technology Tools and Techniques • Criminal History Jeopardy!

  15. Questions? • Reminder on Symposium • Join or Die! • Feb 10: Cut-Off for Early Registration • Feb. 17: Cut-Off for Hotel Group Rate • COPS Technology Grants can also support travel/registration

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