**Glossary of Terms and Internet Links**

**American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA)**

> [**http://www.aamva.org**](http://www.aamva.org/)\
> The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) is a
> nonprofit organization striving to develop model programs in motor
> vehicle administration, police traffic services, and highway safety.
> AAMVA serves as an information clearinghouse for these same
> disciplines and acts as an international spokesperson for these
> interests.

**Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS)**

> [**http://www.arjis.org/**](http://www.arjis.org/)\
> The Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) is a complex
> criminal justice enterprise network utilized by local, state, and
> federal agencies in the San Diego, California, region. ARJIS is
> chartered with supporting a regional Web-based enterprise network that
> utilizes technical and operational standards to build interfaces to
> all criminal justice systems in the region. The ARJISNet secure
> intranet contains data on the region's crime cases, arrests,
> citations, field interviews, traffic accidents, fraudulent documents,
> photographs, gang information, and stolen property.
>
> ARJIS is also utilized for tactical analysis, investigations,
> statistical information, and crime analysis. Officers and
> investigators can additionally request electronic notification when
> information is obtained by another agency or officer concerning an
> individual, location, or vehicle. The critical success factor for
> ARJIS is the \"single point of entry\" to query all regional justice
> data.
>
> ARJIS is currently collaborating with the National Institute of
> Justice (NIJ) to build new Web-based technologies to continue the
> support of the criminal justice community.

**Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS), Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI)**

> [**http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/cjis.htm**](http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/cjis.htm)\
> The Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) was
> established in February 1992 to serve as the focal point and central
> repository for criminal justice information services in the Federal
> Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It is the largest division within the
> FBI. Programs that were initially consolidated under the CJIS Division
> include the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Uniform Crime
> Reporting (UCR), and Fingerprint Identification. In addition,
> responsibility for several ongoing technological initiatives was also
> transferred to the CJIS Division, including the Integrated Automated
> Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), NCIC 2000, and the National
> Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

**CriMNet**

> [**http://www.crimnet.state.mn.us**]()\
> **CriMNet** is an enterprise architecture that puts in place a
> statewide framework of people, processes, data, standards, and
> technology focused on providing accurate and comprehensive data to the
> criminal justice community in the state of Minnesota. It provides the
> means to put \"the right data in the hands of the right people at the
> right time and in the right place.\"
>
> The CriMNet integration effort is not one single project but
> incorporates many projects that are being developed by criminal
> justice organizations throughout Minnesota. The integration
> architecture is driven by local operational needs and uses standards
> that will support the exchange of data across existing and developing
> systems.

**Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)**

> [**http://www.gtri.gatech.edu**](http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/)\
> The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit applied
> research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,
> Georgia. With more than 1,000 employees, GTRI supports approximately
> \$100 million in research yearly, for more than 200 clients in
> industry and government. GTRI researchers have played a pivotal role
> in the engineering support and technical guidance of the Global
> Justice Extensible Markup Language (XML) Data Model (Global JXDM).

**Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global)**

> [**http://www.it.ojp.gov/global**](http://www.it.ojp.gov/global )\
> The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) is a
> \"group of groups,\" representing more than 30 independent
> organizations spanning the spectrum of law enforcement, judicial,
> correctional, and related bodies. Member organizations participate in
> Global out of shared responsibility and shared belief that together
> they can bring about positive changes in interorganizational
> communication and data sharing.
>
> The Global Advisory Committee (GAC) serves as an advisory committee
> for the U.S. Department of Justice. Global aids its member
> organizations and the people they serve through a series of important
> initiatives. These include the facilitation of the Global Working
> Groups, development of technology standards, creation of white papers
> on data sharing issues, and the dissemination of information via the
> Global Web site.
>
> The work of the GAC has implications of the highest importance and
> helps to make the GAC the foremost voice for justice information
> sharing.

**Global Infrastructure/Standards Working Group (GISWG)**

> [**http://www.it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=57**](http://www.it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=57)\
> Successful data exchange is greatly facilitated by the development and
> adoption of standards that enable transparent integration of disparate
> systems. The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global)
> Infrastructure/Standards Working Group (GISWG) is implementing a
> coordination process to identify information sharing standards within
> the justice community. This effort includes publishing, cataloging,
> and sharing these standards to promote collaborative efforts and offer
> blueprints to those beginning the information exchange planning
> process.

**Global Justice XML Structure Task Force (XSTF)**

> [**http://www.it.ojp.gov/global**](http://www.it.ojp.gov/global)\
> The Global Justice Extensible Markup Language (XML) Structure Task
> Force (XSTF) is a component of the Justice XML Committee---a committee
> of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Advisory
> Committee (GAC) Infrastructure/Standards Working Group. The GAC was
> created to promote broadscale sharing of critical justice information
> by serving as an advisory body to the Assistant Attorney General,
> Office of Justice Programs, and the U.S. Attorney General. The XSTF
> was created to build on the work of the Justice XML Committee
> Reconciliation Data Dictionary (RDD).

**Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS)**

> [**http://its.bldrdoc.gov/**](http://its.bldrdoc.gov/)\
> The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA),
> an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the Executive
> Branch's principal voice on domestic and international
> telecommunications and information technology issues. NTIA works to
> spur innovation, encourage competition, help create jobs, and provide
> consumers with more choices and better quality telecommunications
> products and services at lower prices.
>
> The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) is the chief
> research and engineering arm of NTIA. ITS supports such NTIA
> telecommunications objectives as promotion of advanced
> telecommunications and information infrastructure development in the
> United States, enhancement of domestic competitiveness, improvement of
> foreign trade opportunities for U.S. telecommunications firms, and
> facilitation of more efficient and effective use of the radio
> spectrum.
>
> ITS also serves as a principal federal resource for solving the
> telecommunications concerns of other federal agencies, local and state
> governments, private corporations and associations, and international
> organizations.

**Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Industry Working Group
(IWG)**

> [**http://iwg.ijis.org/**](http://iwg.ijis.org/)\
> The mission of the Industry Working Group (IWG) is to contribute to
> the implementation of Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS)
> throughout the country by applying the knowledge and experience of the
> information technology (IT) industry. As IT professionals responsible
> for the achievement of solution systems, IWG believes that experience
> and perspective will improve the quality and reduce the time to market
> for solutions. The IWG supports the initiative of the Office of
> Justice Programs (OJP) to involve industry in its IJIS program and
> believes that the program will benefit from its unique and collective
> experience.

**International Organization for Standardization (ISO)**

> [**http://www.iso.org**](http://www.iso.org/)\
> The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a network
> of national standards institutes from 145 countries working in
> partnership with international organizations, governments, industry,
> business, and consumer representatives.

**Joint Task Force on Rap Sheet Standardization**

> [**http://www.doj.state.wi.us/les/XML/jtf.htm**](http://www.doj.state.wi.us/les/XML/jtf.htm)\
> The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Rap Sheet Standardization is an endeavor
> by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Law
> Enforcement Telecommunication System (NLETS) to bring about a national
> standard for the exchange of criminal history rap sheets. Sponsored by
> the FBI, members include staff of the FBI, NLETS, and states that
> operate criminal history repositories.
>
> In 1995, the National Task Force on Increasing the Utility of the
> Criminal History Record recommended expanded data content, a
> presentation format (page layout) for the expanded content, and the
> creation of a transmission format for the interstate sharing of
> criminal history information. The National Task Force included
> representatives from the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services
> (CJIS) Advisory Policy Board (APB); NLETS; the National Center for
> State Courts; and SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice
> Information and Statistics. Its members were a diverse array of
> justice practitioners drawn from the judiciary; prosecution; court
> administration; local, state, and federal law enforcement; juvenile
> justice pretrial services; and state criminal records repositories.

**Justice Information Exchange Model (JIEM)**

> [**http://www.search.org/programs/technology/jiem.asp**](http://www.search.org/programs/technology/jiem.asp)\
> The Justice Information Exchange Model (JIEM) consists of a framework
> that defines universal dimensions of information exchange, a research
> and planning methodology for modeling the operational dynamics of this
> information exchange, and a Web-based software application―the JIEM
> Modeling Tool---that enables data collection, analysis, and reporting
> by users and researchers.

**Justice Information Sharing Professionals (JISP)**

> [**http://it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=51**](http://it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=51)\
> The Justice Information Sharing Professionals (JISP) is a national
> network of local and state justice and public safety integrators
> responsible for the facilitation, collaboration, and advocacy of
> information sharing. JISP was created to focus on the need to enhance
> communication among practitioners. JISP coordinates a member-only
> Internet mail list at
> [**http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JISP/**](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JISP/).

**Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council (LEITSC)
Technology Center**

> [**http://www.leitsc.org/**](http://www.leitsc.org/)\
> The Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council (LEITSC)
> is funded through the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S.
> Department of Justice, to address the issue of information technology
> standards specific to the law enforcement community. The mission of
> LEITSC is to foster the growth of strategic planning and
> implementation of integrated justice systems by promoting the merits
> of information technology standards, providing advice to the nation's
> law enforcement community on technical aspects of IT standards,
> sharing practical solutions, and representing the voice of law
> enforcement in the expansion of justice and public safety information
> technology standards.
>
> LEITSC partners include the International Association of Chiefs of
> Police (IACP), the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the
> National Sheriffs' Association (NSA), and the National Organization of
> Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).

**Legal XML Court Filing Standards Initiative**

> [**http://it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=65**](http://it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=65)\
> Pursuant to discussions at an August 1999 planning meeting, the
> Conference of State Court Administrators/National Association of Court
> Managers Joint Technology Committee (JTC) formed an e-filing standards
> subcommittee to pursue an Internet electronic filing specification for
> the courts.
>
> To that end, in December 1999, the JTC voted to partner with LegalXML,
> a nonprofit organization that facilitates development of XML standards
> for application within the legal community. This coalition produced
> the LegalXML Court Filing Standard.

**Mapping Alaska's Justice InterChanges (MAJIC)**

> [**http://www.dps.state.ak.us/cjiab/documents/default.asp?passParent=100&passCategory=MAJIC+Project**](http://www.dps.state.ak.us/cjiab/documents/default.asp?passParent=100&passCategory=MAJIC+Project)\
> The Mapping Alaska's Justice InterChanges (MAJIC) program, managed by
> the state's Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board, brings
> together the systems in many organizations statewide, including the
> Department of Public Safety, the Alaska Court System, the Public
> Defender Agency, and the National Law Enforcement and Corrections
> Technology Center-Northwest.

**National Center for State Courts (NCSC)**

> [**http://www.ncsconline.org**](http://www.ncsconline.org/)\
> The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) provides up-to-date
> information and hands-on assistance that help court administrators to
> better serve the public. Through original research, consulting
> services, publications, and national educational programs, NCSC offers
> solutions that enhance court operations with the latest technology,
> collects and interprets the latest data on court operations
> nationwide, and provides information on proven \"best practices\" for
> improving court operations in areas such as civil case management.

**National Crime Information Center (NCIC)**

> [**http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm**](http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm)\
> The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) is a computerized index
> of criminal justice information (i.e., criminal record history
> information, fugitives, stolen properties, and missing persons). It is
> available to local, state, and federal law enforcement and other
> criminal justice agencies and is operational 24 hours per day, 365
> days per year. The purpose for maintaining the NCIC system is to
> provide a computerized database for ready access by a criminal justice
> agency making an inquiry and to provide prompt disclosure of
> information in the system from other criminal justice agencies. This
> information assists authorized agencies in criminal justice and
> related law enforcement objectives, such as apprehending fugitives,
> locating missing persons, and locating and returning stolen property,
> as well as protecting law enforcement officers.

**National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)**

> [**http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/nibrs.htm**](http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/nibrs.htm)\
> The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting
> (UCR) Program, which began in 1929, collects information about crimes
> reported to the police. In 1982, the Bureau of Justice Statistics and
> the FBI sponsored a study of the UCR Program, with the objective of
> revising it to meet law enforcement needs into the twenty-first
> century. A five-year redesign effort to provide more comprehensive and
> detailed crime statistics resulted in the National Incident-Based
> Reporting System (NIBRS), which collects data on each reported crime
> incident. The UCR Program is currently being expanded to NIBRS.

**National Institute of Justice (NIJ)**

> [**http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij**](http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij)\
> The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development,
> and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. NIJ provides
> objective, independent, nonpartisan, evidence-based knowledge and
> tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the
> state and local levels. NIJ's principal authorities are derived from
> the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended
> (see 42 USC \* 3721-3723).
>
> The NIJ director is appointed by the President and confirmed by the
> Senate. The NIJ director establishes the Institute's objectives,
> guided by the priorities of the Office of Justice Programs, the U.S.
> Department of Justice, and the needs of the field. NIJ actively
> solicits the views of criminal justice and other professionals and
> researchers to inform its search for the knowledge and tools to guide
> policy and practice.

**National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (NLETS)**

> [**http://www.nlets.org**](http://www.nlets.org/)\
> The mission of the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System
> (NLETS) is to provide, within a secure environment, an international
> criminal justice telecommunication capability that will benefit, to
> the highest degree, the safety, security, and preservation of human
> life and the protection of property. NLETS will assist those national
> and international governmental agencies and other organizations with
> similar missions who enforce or aid in enforcing local, state,
> federal, or international laws or ordinances.

**National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)**

> [**http://www.ntia.doc.gov**](http://www.ntia.doc.gov/)\
> The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA),
> an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the Executive
> Branch's principal voice on domestic and international
> telecommunications and information technology issues. NTIA works to
> spur innovation, encourage competition, help create jobs, and provide
> consumers with more choices and better quality telecommunications
> products and services at lower prices.

**Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET)**

> [**http://www.pajnet.state.pa.us**](http://www.pajnet.state.pa.us/)\
> JNET is a collaboration of municipal, county, state, bordering states,
> and federal justice agencies that develop and provide a secure, online
> integrated justice system which allows participating agencies to
> access driver and offender records, and other justice information.
> Local and state police officers, JNET's largest users, have immediate
> access to critical criminal justice information that helps them to
> perform their jobs more effectively.

**Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)**

> [**http://www.iir.com/riss**](http://www.iir.com/riss)\
> The Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program is composed of
> six regional centers that share intelligence and coordinate efforts
> against criminal networks that operate in many locations across
> jurisdictional lines. Typical targets of RISS activities are drug
> trafficking, terrorism, violent crime, cybercrime, gang activity, and
> organized criminal activities. Each of the centers, however, selects
> its own target crimes and the range of services provided to member
> agencies.

**SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and
Statistics**

> [**http://www.search.org**](http://www.search.org/)\
> SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics
> is a nonprofit membership organization created by and for the states,
> dedicated to improving the criminal justice system and the quality of
> justice through better information management, the effective
> application of information and identification technology, and
> responsible justice information law and policy.