IIJIS Strategic Plan – Issue 5, Establish Standards

• Strategic Goal 1: Recommend and implement mechanisms and processes to inventory, develop, adopt, publish, disseminate, and maintain standards/regulations that apply to justice information sharing

• Strategic Goal 2: Inventory, adopt, and/or develop a uniform set of standards/regulations that enable secure, robust information exchanges and are compatible with national standards.

Types of Standards• Communications

• Security

• Privacy

• Functional

• Data Exchange

Why Standards?• Key to justice agencies with

dissimilar systems sharing data.• Data exchanges without standards

are needlessly time-consuming and expensive.

• Much of the work has been done.• Standards are voluntary.

Standards v. Regulations• Standard – A document approved by a

recognized body, that provides for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for products, processes or services for which compliance is not mandatory.

• Regulation – A document that describes product, process or service characteristics, including the applicable administrative provisions, with which compliance is mandatory.

International Standards Organization

Sources Used for JXDMSponsorSource DocumentsGlobal ISWG Reconciliation Data DictionaryRISS RISS Intelligence schemaOASIS Court Filing DTDAAMVA Driver History schemaNIJ InfoTech Data Dictionary & schemaLA County Incident Report SchemaSEARCH Justice Information Exchange Model OASIS Arrest warrant, charging document, &

sentencing order schemaMinnesota CRIMNET Data Dictionary & schemaNLETS NCIC 2000 Code TablesNIBRS Incident Report schema

Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Advisory

Committee (GAC)

• Reports to the U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and the U.S. Attorney General in an advisory capacity

• Promotes broad-scale sharing of pertinent justice information to support public safety

• Consists of key officials from local, state, tribal, federal, and other justice-related entities

Global’s Mission

• To improve the administration of justice and protect the nation’s public by promoting practices and technologies for the secure sharing of justice-related information

GAC Composition

• Constituencies represented by Global participants– Law enforcement agencies– Prosecutors– Public defenders– Courts– Corrections agencies– Probation and parole departments– Additional agencies in the justice and public safety

communities

How Global Achieves Its Objectives…

• GAC• GAC Executive Steering Committee• Working Groups

– Global Infrastructure/Standards Working Group– Global Intelligence Working Group– Global Privacy and Information Quality

Working Group– Global Security Working Group

GAC Executive Steering Committee (GESC)

• Consists of the GAC Chair and Vice Chair, the working groups’ chairpersons, and two at-large members

• Guides the work of the GAC and its working groups

• Collaborates and partners with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Global Infrastructure/Standards Working Group (GISWG)

• GISWG Goal– Define a framework

• To assist government entities to establish an operational environment for sharing justice and public safety information

GISWG (continued)

• Tasks– Coordinate with the Global Intelligence, Privacy and

Information Quality, and Security Working Groups to assure a comprehensive Global approach, and to address interdependent information sharing issues

– Examine emerging technologies that advance justice information sharing

– Identify programmatic and technical components to develop infrastructure

GISWG (continued)

• Products– Justice Standards Clearinghouse (JSC)

• The JSC for Information Sharing is a repository for standards and specifications within the justice and public safety communities

• The JSC is located at http://www.it.ojp.gov/jsc

GISWG (continued)

• Products (continued)– Metadata Repository – Justice XML Data

Dictionary (JXDD) v3.0• Foundation: reconciliation initiative• The Interstate Criminal History transmission

specification • The Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)

data exchange specification• The electronic court filing standard

GISWG (continued)

• Products (continued) – Metadata Repository –JXDD v3.0 (continued)

• Schema Task Team

• Collaborative effort between OJP, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute

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Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG)

• GIWG Goals– Promote and recommend policies, plans, and promising

practices to ensure effective intelligence sharing critical to public safety

– Address and recommend solutions that allow information sharing while safeguarding the privacy and constitutional rights of individuals

GIWG (continued)

• Tasks– Overcome intelligence information exchange

barriers– Develop National Criminal Intelligence Sharing

Plan– Establish a Coordinating Council

GIWG (continued)

• Product– Interim Report: Development of the National

Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan

Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (GPIQWG)

• GPIQWG Goals– To provide national leadership to justice entities on policies

and practices to prevent inappropriate collection, use, and dissemination of personal information

– To examine means of improving the reliability of criminal records in an integrated justice information system

– To examine emerging technologies for accurately and reliably identifying individuals through biometrics technology

GPIQWG (continued)

• Tasks– Produce a policy-level white paper on

protecting privacy and security in integrated justice systems in the post-9/11 era of public safety and homeland security

– Develop, in consultation with DHS, policies that maintain the balance between information sharing and individual rights/privacy

– Explore emerging biometrics technologies

GPIQWG (continued)

• Product– White Paper (Draft)

• Recognizes the new context in which justice information sharing systems operate

• Applies settled privacy principles to existing models

of justice information sharing systems and makes recommendations for promising practices

GPIQWG (continued)

• Product (continued)

– White Paper (Draft) (continued)• Addresses the legal mandates and prohibitions

arising from applying privacy principles to current systems and makes recommendations for amending current law

• Ensures that in the pursuit of effective justice information sharing systems, adequate consideration is given to policies that protect privacy and constitutional values

Global Security Working Group (GSWG)

• GSWG Goal– Apply relevant security practices to justice and

related information sharing initiatives

GSWG (continued)

• Tasks– Compile a comprehensive set of security promising

practices in the areas of technologies, guidelines, policies, and procedures

– Provide specific real-world examples and case studies of security implementations

– Research Web services security specifications, standards, and other security issues necessary in justice and related information sharing applications

GSWG (continued)

• Product– Applying Security Practices to Justice

Information Sharing

Information Technology (IT) Web Site http://www.it.ojp.gov

• An easy-to-use Web site designed to give practitioners a centralized location to find information sharing and technology integration resources

• Specifically designed to serve the justice and public safety communities

• Offers a variety of ways to access information and aims to assist practitioners by providing extensive resources within the justice and public safety communities

Summary

• Global Mission

• Ground breaking, justice information sharing initiatives

• Focused on practitioner needs

• Public safety orientation

What is XML?

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a technology

designed to transmit both data and its meaning within a particular transfer occurrence.

• XML accomplishes this by using Markup Language to identify structures within a document.

• Structured information contains both content

(words) and an indication of what role the content plays.• For example, the object “vehicle” contains many

elements such as description, color, and model.

What is XML?The Justice XML data dictionary organizes data into six Super Types – Person, Property, Organization, Location, ContactInformation, and Activity.• These Super Types contain approximately 2000 unique data elements that have been incorporated into nearly 300 reusable

components.XML Example• <Person>

<PersonName><PersonLastNameText> Smith </PersonLastNameText>

</PersonName> – <PersonEyeColorCode> BRN </PersonEyeColorCode></Person>

Subject SubjectTypeextends PersonType

A person who is involved or suspected of being involved in an incident or criminal activity.

SubjectCautionInformationCaveat CaveatType Information regarding cautionary messages about an individual.SubjectCautionInformationCode SubjectCautionInformationCodeType A code identifying cautionary information about a subject.SubjectOffenderNoticeCaveat CaveatType Contains other information about cautions/caveats/notices related

to an offender. A state of information origin let's the recipient know where the information came from.

SubjectWarrantTypeCode string A code identifying a type of warrant out for a subject's arrest.SubjectWarrantTypeDescriptionText string A description of the warrant out for a subject's arrest.SubjectCorrectiveAction CorrectiveActionType A corrective action a subject is undergoing or participating in.SubjectSupervision SupervisionType The incarceration, detention, or other form of supervision a person

is currently under.SubjectStatus StatusType The general status or state of a person, i.e. arrested, charged,

paroled.SubjectCriminalOrganizationInvolvementCode code NCIC:PersonVGTOFCapability A code identifying a subject's involvement in a criminal

organization such as a gang or terrorist group.SubjectInvolvementCriminalOrganization CriminalOrganizationType A criminal organization a person is known or suspected of being

involved with.SubjectInvolvementPerson PersonType A person a subject is known or suspected of being involved with.SubjectCriminalTraitDetails CriminalTraitDetailsType A set of identifying characterstics a person has with regard to

illegal activity.SubjectCourtWardIndicator boolean An indicator of whether a subject is a ward of the court.SubjectProbationIndicator boolean An indicator of whether a subject is on probation.

Suspect SubjectType A person suspected of criminal activity.

PersonBiometricDetails PersonBiometricDetailsTypeextends SuperType

A set of details about measurable biological or behavioral characteristics, which can reliably recognize the identity, or verify the claimed identity, of a person.

PersonPhototographImage ImageType An image of a person.PersonDigitizedSignatureImage ImageType An image of a person's digital signature.PersonXRayImage ImageTypePersonBloodTypeCode PersonBloodTypeCodeType NCIC code describing a person's type of blood, i.e. A positive, O

negative.PersonSaliva BiometricTypePersonSemen BiometricTypePersonUrine BiometricTypePersonFingerPrint FingerPrintType

extends BiometricTypeA sample of an impression made by the ridge's of a person's fingertip.

FingerPrintImage ImageType Picture of a fingerprint.FingerPrintClassCode code NCIC:PersonFingerprintClassification NCIC code identifying the classification of a fingerprint.FingerPrintPatternCode code NCIC:PersonFingerprintPattern NCIC code identifying the pattern of a fingerprint.FingerPrintTypeCode string Unknown code reference. Identifies the type of fingerprints

collected, i.e. left thumb, right index finger, ten-print set.PersonDNA DNAType

extends BiometricTypeA sample of a person's DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).

DNALocus DNALocusType Location specific information regarding a person's DNA.DNALocusTypeText string The location within a strand of DNA that a value was determined.DNALocusValue string The value string for a DNA locus. Pattern (Rap Sheet): ([0-9]+(\.[0-

9]+)?)|(X)|(Y)|(XY)DNAImage ImageType An image of a DNA strand.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

- <rs:RapSheet xmlns:rs="http://bogus.justicexml.gtri.gatech.edu/RapSheet/2002-12-10-1018" xmlns:jdd="http://justicexml.gtri.gatech.edu/JusticeDataDictionary/2002-11-19-1545" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://bogus.justicexml.gtri.gatech.edu/RapSheet/2002-12-10-1018 JDD-RapSheet.xsd">

- <Introduction>

- <RapSheetRequest>

  <jdd:PersonFBIIdentifier>618079JA8</jdd:PersonFBIIdentifier>

  <jdd:PersonStateIdentifier>WI183246</jdd:PersonStateIdentifier>

  <PurposeCode>C</PurposeCode>

  <Attention>OFC LYNCH</Attention>

  </RapSheetRequest>

- <jdd:Caveat>

  <jdd:CaveatText>The response is based on a search using the fingerprints and/or identification data supplied. Searches based solely on name and non-unique identifiers are not fully reliable. The CIB cannot guarantee that the information furnished pertains to the individual you are interested in.</jdd:CaveatText>

  <jdd:CaveatReferenceDateTime>2002-01-30T12:00:00-05:00</jdd:CaveatReferenceDateTime>

  <jdd:CaveatIssuingAuthorityText>"WI"</jdd:CaveatIssuingAuthorityText>

  </jdd:Caveat>

  </Introduction>

- <jdd:Subject jdd:id="Subject1">

  <jdd:CommentText>Felony offender.</jdd:CommentText>

- <jdd:PersonAssignedIdentity>

  <jdd:DriverLicenseIdentifier>S455-2826-4895-L</jdd:DriverLicenseIdentifier>

  <jdd:PersonFBIIdentifier>618079JA8</jdd:PersonFBIIdentifier>

 

<jdd:PersonStateIdentifier>WI183246</jdd:PersonStateIdentifier>