Funnel legal and administrative issues to the COTS Council, with recommendations, to provide adequate consistency among Commonwealth organizations. Develop guidelines to ensure privacy and security when providing access to sensitive data. Review technical issues to ensure privacy and security of sensitive records. When disseminating information, guidelines need to be incorporated to show how to provide security and certification of information. Review and evaluate the restricted and non-restricted levels of security on the internet.
Committee focus on what is legally permissible.
Review legislation and make appropriate recommendations for statutory revision. Review technical issues, technical architectures and techniques to develop uniform policies. Review and identify level of priority of records. Submit recommendations to the COTS Council to solicit support for legislative changes in statute. Develop a generic model on security and match levels of data to levels of security.