U.S. Department of Justice Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program (LEISP)
Spring 06 - Global Advisory Committee (GAC) Meeting
Vance Hitch, Chief Information OfficerU.S. Department of Justice
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The DOJ LEISP
DOJ’s strategy to ensure law enforcement information collected by DOJ is shared comprehensively and routinely with other federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement partners:
• Contributes to the fulfillment of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan
• Contributes to the strengthening of the national Information Sharing Environment – PM ISE (per Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act and Presidential Directives)
• Ensures DOJ IT investments incorporate law enforcement information sharing requirements
• Incorporates input from law enforcement partners
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LEISP Key Elements
Key elements of the DOJ LEISP strategy are to:• Ensure DOJ information sharing efforts support the
needs of law enforcement nationwide
• Protect the legal rights/civil liberties of all Americans
• Leverage and coordinate with ongoing information sharing efforts
• Promote the concept of “OneDOJ”
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Core LEISP Concept – OneDOJ
• Establish DOJ-wide policy, operations, services, and technical standards
• Ensure consistency of DOJ information that meets the needs of law enforcement stakeholders
• Provide our partners with one entry point for DOJ law enforcement information
Getting our own house in order…
FBIBOP USMSATF DEA OJP
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N-DEx
Two Complementary Tools
National Repository
N-DEx
DOJ DHS/CBP
Bedford County VA
Phoenix PD Boston PD Miccosukee Tribal PD
NCIS DOI
Structured Data Only
Local Systems, Contribute at own pace
200,000 possible users
OneDOJ
DHS/USSS
Entity Resolution & Correlation
Structured & Unstructured Data
LEOMid-West
R-DEx
Protected SSLPoint to Point Connection,
Web Services Standard Interface
LInX
CA
ARJIS
PA
JNET Others
Regional Sharing Systems, Managed Locally
VA
Approximately 100 connections
WA
Federated Search Across Systems
NorWest Mid-Atl
So-West Mid-West
Regional Partitions
R-DEx Fed
ATF
USMS BOP
DEA
FBI
OneDOJStructured & Unstructured Data
Web Services Standard Interface
Regional Systems – Grant funded, locally hosted and maintained, national standards; accessing DOJ data through R-DEx.
N-DEx – Federally funded, federally hosted & maintained (CJIS). Multi-agency federal, state and local data available to the authorized user.
Partnering Strategy
FUTURE
NY State Police
FL Dept. LE
GA State Police
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National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)• A collaboration among federal, state & local
government, industry, academia– DOJ, DHS, GLOBAL, IC, DOT, NIST, etc.
• A federated architecture for data standards for information exchange– Framework for interconnecting independent communities
of interest• Universal Core, Common Core, Domains
– Addresses “Tower of Babel” problems for both within and between domains
– Built upon widely-used GJXML• A foundation with three parts:
– Core data components– Re-useable XML exchange packets– Business process models