Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY › Division 30 - Office of the Director › Chapter 17 - Technical Standards for Criminal Justice Information Sharing › Section 11 CSR 30-17.010 - Definitions and Technical Standards for Information Sharing

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule defines terms and establishes
				  technical standards for any vendor wishing to sell or lease their information
				  sharing system product(s) in Missouri to a criminal justice agency, as well as
				  establishes requirements for any criminal justice agency building an
				  information sharing system.
(1) Definitions.
(A) Central Vendor File (CVF)-The Criminal
				Justice Information Services (CJIS) Systems Agency (CSA) maintains a Central
				Vendor File (CVF) that contains vendor information for vendors and vendor staff
				who have met the latest Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) CJIS security
				policy requirements to handle Criminal Justice Information (CJI) and who the
				Criminal Records and Justice Information Advisory Committee (CRJIAC) certifies
				as compliant with the state of Missouri's information standards contained in
				this rule. The CVF will contain information about CJI sharing systems that have
				been certified, and versions of said products, that have been
				certified.
(B) Criminal justice
				agency means-
1. Courts; and
2. A governmental agency or any subunit
				thereof that performs the administration of criminal justice pursuant to a
				statute or executive order, and that allocates a substantial part of its annual
				budget to the administration of criminal justice. State and federal inspector
				general offices are included.
(C) Criminal Justice Information (CJI)-All of
				the FBI CJIS provided data necessary for law enforcement and civil agencies to
				perform their missions including, but not limited to; biometric, identity
				history, biographic, property, and case/incident history data, as defined per
				the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security
				Policy.
(D) Criminal Justice
				Information Interface (CJI-I)-System interface used for the electronic sharing
				of CJI or Missouri court data related to the administration of criminal justice
				as defined in section
				43.500, RSMo, or
				victim notification responsibilities required by section
				595.209,
				RSMo, from a local entity to another local entity, or to a state agency or
				program, as well as from a state agency or program to a federal agency or
				program, as defined per the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
				Security Policy.
(E) Criminal
				Justice Information Service (CJIS) Criminal Systems Agency (CSA)-An FBI
				designated agency for the State of Missouri responsible for establishing and
				administering an information technology security program throughout the CSA's
				user community, to include the local levels, as defined per the FBI's Criminal
				Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy.
(F) Criminal Records and Justice Information
				Advisory Committee (CRJIAC)-Committee established pursuant to section
				43.518,
				RSMo, the purpose of which includes recommend policies and strategies,
				including standards and technology, for promoting electronic justice
				information sharing, between authorized agencies and institutions. For purposes
				of this regulation, CRJIAC includes any subcommittee that has been designated
				by CRJIAC to act on its behalf.
(G)
				Director-The director of the Department of Public Safety.
(H) Information Sharing System-An agency-wide
				system that provides for the storage, retrieval, retention, manipulation,
				archiving, and viewing of information, records, documents, or files pertaining
				to a criminal justice agency's administration of criminal justice that uses a
				Criminal Justice Information Interface.
(I) Missouri Court Data-Data that falls
				within the rules established by the Missouri Supreme Court for data sharing
				that apply to state and local courts within Missouri.
(J) Missouri Incident Based Reporting System
				(MIBRS)-A Missouri program, established pursuant to section
				43.505,
				RSMo that is used by law enforcement to collect and report data on crimes that
				occur in Missouri for compilation at the state and federal level.
(K) Metadata-Structured information that
				describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or
				manage an information resource. Metadata is commonly referred to as data about
				data, information about information, or information describing the
				characteristics of data. Whenever the term "data" is used in this rule, such
				term includes metadata.
(L)
				National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)-A national program that is
				used by law enforcement to collect and report data on crimes to the Federal
				Bureau of Investigation for compilation at the federal level.
(M) National Identity Exchange Federation
				(NIEF)-An organization establishing a national standard for securing the
				sharing of information across diverse organizations and systems.
(N) National Information Exchange Model
				(NIEM)-A national standard for the efficient sharing of information across
				diverse organizations and systems.
(O) National Data Exchange (N-DEx)-The
				unclassified national information sharing system that enables criminal justice
				agencies to search, link, analyze, and share local, state, tribal, and federal
				records.
(P) Vendor-Any entity that
				supplies products or services to a criminal justice agency for a fee.