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IJIS Institute National Symposium

Bridging the Gap between Technology and Policy through

Public- and Private-sector Collaboration

Hyatt Regency Tysons Corner Center

7901 Tysons One Place

Tysons Corner, VA 22102

January 23-24, 2019

IJIS Institute National Symposium | January 23-24, 2019

Welcome to the IJIS Institute National Symposium! The 2019 National Symposium, the IJIS Institute’s premier conference and educational event, bridges the gap

between technology and policy through public- and private-sector collaboration. Through the education and

networking opportunities at the National Symposium, public-sector mission challenges will intersect with

industry innovation and policy and process best practices to help drive public-sector technology, empower

information sharing, and result in safer and healthier communities.

This event focuses on innovative technology, information sharing and

safeguarding, and national priority initiatives in which the IJIS Institute is

involved. The National Symposium brings together industry, government

and associated nonprofit organizations and academia face challenges in a

collaborative setting. It offers the unique opportunity to hear first-hand

from industry experts, state and local government officials, and Federal

government leaders.

About the IJIS Institute

The IJIS Institute is a nonprofit alliance working to promote and enable technology in the public sector and

expand the use of information to maximize safety, efficiency, and productivity. The IJIS Institute has members

and associates working within and across several major public-sector domains as our areas of focus including:

• Criminal Justice (Law Enforcement, Corrections, Courts)

• Public Safety (Fire, EMS, Emergency Management)

• Homeland Security

• Health and Human Services

• Transportation

The IJIS Institute brings together the public and private sectors in a collaborative process, within and across our

areas of focus. The IJIS Institute provides a trusted forum where resources are developed, collaboration is

encouraged, and public-sector stakeholders can realize the benefits of technology and the power of information to

keep our communities safe, healthy, and thriving.

Founded in 2001 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, the Institute is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia. For

more information, visit http://www.ijis.org.

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PRE-SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 [Room Assignments shown in brackets.]

2019 NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM PRE-EVENT ACTIVITIES

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Briefing Registration [Prefunction Area]

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast Buffet [Prefunction Area – Fourth Level]

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room (available all day) [Vienna]

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM

IJIS Institute Advisory Committee and Task Force Meetings

ADVISORY COMMITTEE/TASK FORCE or WG CHAIR ROOM

Law Enforcement Imaging Technology Task Force Patrick Doyle Peach Grove A

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM

IJIS Institute Advisory Committee/Task Force Meetings (Combined) (Members, Alliance Partners, and Associates are welcome to attend any committee or task force meeting as observers.)

ADVISORY COMMITTEES CHAIR ROOM

IJIS Technology and Architecture Committee (ITAC) Blockchain Task Force

Iveta Topalova Great Falls

CJIS Advisory Committee Background Checks Task Force, N-DEx Task Force, UCR Working Group, N3G/NCIC Working Group

Jim Pingel Chain Bridge A

Corrections Advisory Committee Fred Roesel Colvin Run

Courts Advisory Committee Joe Wheeler McLean

Law Enforcement Advisory Committee (LEAC) Law Enforcement Imaging Technology Task Force, Biometrics Task Force, CAD Interoperability and Technology Working Group

Bob Turner Tyson

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Lunch [Regency Ballroom BC] –Networking Lunch for IJIS Institute Committee and Task Force

Participants, IJIS Leadership, and Staff

NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AGENDA NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM – DAY ONE – JANUARY 23, 2019

1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Opening Ceremony [Regency Ballroom BC]

Pledge of Allegiance

Welcome – IJIS Institute Board of Directors Chair Mike Wagers and Executive Director

Ashwini Jarral

1:15 PM– 1:45 PM Opening Keynote – Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia

[Regency Ballroom BC]

1:45 PM – 2:15 PM Keynote – Jeff Jonas, Futurist and CEO of Senzing [Regency Ballroom BC]


NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM – DAY ONE – JANUARY 23, 2019

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Plenary Session #1 – Internet-of-Things (IoT) Security for Public Safety – Is it Time for

Standards? [Regency Ballroom BC]

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Networking Break [Prefunction Area]

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM Plenary Session #2 – Cyber Security: Maximizing Benefits from Open Standards


4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Plenary Session #3 – Modernizing Crime Statistics and the Widespread Impact on the IT

Industry [Regency Ballroom BC]

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Closing Comments, Wrap-up [Regency Ballroom BC]

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Award Celebration Reception [Regency Ballroom A] – Celebrate the IJIS Institute award

winners at this special celebration reception. Join the IJIS Institute National Symposium

attendees, IJIS Institute leadership, IJIS staff, partner organizations, and our event sponsors

for an evening of appetizers, cocktails, award-winner celebrations, and networking.


NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AGENDA – DAY TWO – JANUARY 24, 2019

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Briefing Registration [Prefunction Area]

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast Buffet [Prefunction Area]

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room (available all day) [Vienna]

8:00 AM – 8:05 AM Morning Announcements [Regency Ballroom BC]

8:05 AM – 8:30 AM Keynote – Doug Robinson, Executive Director, National Association of State CIOs


8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Plenary Session #4 – Data Sharing to Combat Exploitation and Human Trafficking


9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Transition Break

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM (sessions run concurrently,

pick one to attend)

Breakout #1 – Privacy by Design [Regency Ballroom A]

Breakout #2 – Public-sector Blockchain Use Cases: An Assessment Framework Blockchain

[Peach Grove]

Breakout #3 – Corrections Technology: Challenges for the Future [Chain Bridge]

Breakout #4 – Using AI for Criminal History Records Research [Colvin Run]

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Networking Break

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM Plenary Session #5 – 2021: Nationwide Rollout of Incident-based Reporting [Regency

Ballroom BC]

11:45 PM – 12:45 PM Networking Lunch [Regency Ballroom BC] – Networking Lunch for IJIS Institute National

Symposium Participants, IJIS Leadership, and Staff

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Plenary Session #6 – The Future of the CIO [Regency Ballroom BC]

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM Transition Break

POST-SYMPOSIUM EVENT FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT

2:00 PM – 2:05 PM Facial Recognition Technology Summit Welcome [Regency Ballroom BC]

2:05 PM – 4:55 PM Facial Recognition Technology Summit [Regency Ballroom BC]

Summit Session #1: The Evolution and Future of Facial Recognition Technology

Summit Session #2: Policy, Privacy, and Technology Implications in Facial Recognition

Technology

4:55 – 5:00 PM Closing Comments, Surveys, and Prize Winner [Regency Ballroom BC]

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NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

Plenary Sessions

Plenary Session #1

Internet-of-Things (IoT) Security for

Public Safety – Is it Time for Standards?

Jenner Holden, Chief Information Security Officer, Axon

Internet connected devices (IoT) are starting to be widely deployed within public safety and building robust security into these devices is difficult, especially when trying to minimize costs and recognizing that public safety institutions are not equipped to effectively evaluate the security of the devices they are purchasing; a security mess is brewing! Is it time to establish security standards for IoT devices used in public safety to provide a clear target for vendors and an independent validation of this security baseline for public institutions purchasing these devices?

Plenary Session #2

Cyber Security: Maximizing Benefits from

Open Standards

Lt. Colonel James Emerson USMC (Ret), Executive Advisor for Cyber Policy, NW3C

Stacey A. Wright, Director of Cyber Intelligence, Multi-State Information Sharing

and Analysis Center

Scott A. Vantrease, CISSP, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Digital Investigations

Branch, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Ray Hicks, Founder and CTO, 5th Column

Are Information Sharing Environments and resulting increased connectedness at odds with cyber security standards and risk management? Cyber-attacks on private companies and public-sector agencies are on the rise. There are wide-ranging cyber issues


that can disrupt public safety, homeland security, and national security services, including denial of service (DoS, DDoS) attacks, critical infrastructure disruption, and data security breaches. As U.S. public safety agencies grapple with these issues, another specific area of vulnerability exists relative to opening connections and sharing critical information across public networks in support of national law enforcement and fusion center missions. This session will inform and educate attendees on the use of various CJIS and FIPS standards and practices for controlling access and encryption, and for monitoring active threats. The standards discussion will address pertinent aspects of the NIST Cybersecurity and Risk Management Framework (RMF), as well as other relevant data security architectures (e.g., STIX, TAXII).

Plenary Session #3

Modernizing Crime Statistics and the

Widespread Impact on the IT Industry

Paul Wormeli, President, Wormeli Consulting

Dr. Janet L. Lauritsen, Curators' Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri –

St. Louis

Erica L. Smith, Unit Chief, Law Enforcement Incident-Based Statistics Unit, Bureau

of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice

This session will describe the Modernizing Crime Statistics Panel’s work done by the National Academies of Sciences with funding from the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The work of the panel culminated in a new crime classification system that will have a widespread impact on all records management software, and the collection of crime statistics at federal, state, and local levels. The proposed new system is much more in line with international efforts and with the need to cover more of the previously incomplete data on crime in the U.S.

Plenary Session #4

Data Sharing to Combat Exploitation and

Human Trafficking

Richard Gold, Program Manager, IJIS

Joe Mandala, CIO, Kansas Bureau of Investigation

John Bischoff, Executive Director/Missing Children Division, National Center for

Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Judge Barbara A. Mack, King County Superior Court (Seattle, Washington)

Amelia Rubenstein, MSW, LCSW-C, Clinical Research Specialist for the Child Sex

Trafficking Victims Initiative (CSTVI), University of Maryland School of Social Work

Human trafficking is a crime and a human rights abuse involving the commercial and often sexual exploitation of a child or adult through the use of force, coercion or fraud to compel someone into labor servitude or sexual exploitation. The crime of trafficking includes children and adults, all genders, many of our own citizens, members of tribal nations and immigrants, and other vulnerable populations such as LGBTQ and runaway youth (including youth in the foster care system). There are at least a half-dozen Federal laws that deal with some facet of this issue, yet there is no single method of reporting incidents or investigations and there is little oversight on timeliness of reporting. Law enforcement alone cannot solve this problem; putting an end to human trafficking requires cooperation and the appropriate information, at the right time, to help find people and return them to safety. Partnerships and collaboration in accessing data among systems is critical, including law enforcement, public safety, court case management, case management for mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, and immigration systems, to forge a cohesive and timely data sharing capability among responsible and/or accountable stakeholders, provide good reporting and analysis of the problems, and produce data to help better define the laws and policies surrounding the crime of trafficking.

Plenary Session #5

2021: Nationwide Rollout of Incident-based

Reporting

Maria Cardiellos, Director of Operations, IJIS Institute

Erica L. Smith, Unit Chief, Law Enforcement Incident-Based Statistics Unit, Bureau

of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice

Todd Thompson, Senior Project Director, Caliber Public Safety

Melissa Winesburg, Criminal Justice Practice Director, Optimum Technology

By January 1, 2021, the FBI will retire the Summary Reporting System of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program and will establish the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) as the crime data reporting standard for the nation. The Bureau of


Justice Statistics has also been working jointly with the FBI to transition 400 agencies as part of the National Crime Statistics Exchange. With the 2021 deadline rapidly approaching and direct federal funding coming to an end, presenters will provide a brief update on the status of the nationwide transition to NIBRS and the NCS-X program. The panel will then focus their discussion on the value of the data made available by NIBRS, how states and law enforcement agencies are using the data to inform operational needs, and how all partners can collaborate to address the next generation of data access and sharing. During the discussions, examples will be provided on how certain agencies are collecting, managing, and using the data to make better-informed decisions.

Plenary Session #6

The Future of the CIO

Luke J. McCormack, Federal Executive Forum Host, Federal News Network

(Moderator)

Mike Bell, Chief Technology Officer, Houston Police Department

Richard Spires, CEO Learning Tree (former DHS CIO)

James Collins, Delaware CIO and President of NASCIO

As government agencies and the private sector embrace digital transformation to achieve operational efficiencies, the role of a CIO and/or CTO is being redefined. CIOs and CTOs are no longer a cost center, but a core building block of an organization’s executive leadership. As part of the thought leadership team, they will have to go above and beyond technology and look at the enterprise-wide need for services, processes, policies, security, and risk management that aligns with the overall organizational strategy. This panel will discuss the CIO/CTO perspective of how the role is being redefined at all levels of government and in the private sector. The panelists will also discuss the tools and training that will be needed for the next generation of CIOs and CTOs to be successful.

Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session #1

Using Privacy by Design for Cyber Defense

and to Encourage the Adoption of New

Technology

Chuck Georgo, Executive Director, NOWHERETOHIDE.org

Mike Alagna, Program Director, IJIS Institute

Jenner Holden, Chief Information Security Officer, Axon

Perimeter defense and access controls are no longer enough to protect your agency’s information systems and the data they hold from attack. Add to that the challenge to design, operate, and use technologies in ways that are mindful of diverse privacy needs in an increasingly connected and complex environment. In this presentation you will learn about the Privacy by Design (PBD) framework, the need for policy to keep pace with technology, and industry perspectives on new technology deployment that accounts for both security and privacy concerns.

Breakout Session #2

Public-sector Blockchain Use Cases: An

Assessment Framework

Anne Thompson, Principal, Thompson Finn LLC

Steven White, Assistant Director, Infrastructure & Customer Support Section,

Missouri State Highway Patrol

Akbar Farook, Global Justice Solutions

Attendees will learn how to assess whether public-sector use cases would benefit from blockchain technology (aka distributed ledger technology), including what questions to ask to determine pros and cons, costs and benefits, organizational readiness, and security. The session will cover use cases involving protective orders and digital evidence management. This is an interactive session that will include participant feedback to help evolve the assessment framework in becoming useful across a range of public sector use cases.


Breakout Session #3

Corrections Technology: Challenges for

the Future

Fred Roesel, Business Architect, Marquis Software

Brian Day, Director of Product Strategy, Syscon Justice Systems, Ltd.

Recent digital developments have revolutionized correctional services, community supervision, and custodial corrections. These new developments have created tremendous opportunities in support of the vital work of correctional staff and improve the outcomes for offenders. However, the same technology that is delivering so many dividends is also creating a rapidly growing number of complex technology issues that correctional agencies must confront. Among these issues are fundamental questions about security, transparency, privacy, reliance on technology, and what level of offender access to technology is appropriate – all subject to increasing public scrutiny. How can we ensure that our agencies have the skills and capacity to confront these challenges? How can correctional decision-makers navigate these conflicting demands? What is the role of government and industry in this environment? New technology is coming whether we’re ready or not, but it’s the skill-set of your personnel and the effectiveness of your policies that will optimize its effectiveness and enhance your ability to deliver on the mission in financially-challenging times. This workshop will focus on key strategies that decision makers and technologists can leverage to manage and mitigate the effect of the rocky road of adopting and absorbing ever more rapid technological change.

Breakout Session #4

Using AI for Criminal History Records

Research

Steve Spiker, Data Evangelist, Measures for Justice

Dave Kilmer, Data Architect, Measures for Justice

What would it look like for your organization to adopt techniques like machine learning for real-world tasks? Measures for Justice, a national research organization, has been incorporating machine learning into their data processing pipeline to improve speed, efficiency, and data quality. This session will focus on the work creating standardized criminal charge classifications and will provide both an accessible look at this technology for non-technologists as well as a more detailed look at our process for developers and data wranglers.


Facial Recognition Summit Sessions

Summit Session #1

The Evolution and Future of Facial

Recognition Technology

Benji Hutchinson, Vice President of Federal Operations, Advanced Recognition Systems

Division, NEC Corporation of America

Andrew Howell, Monument Policy Group

James Loudermilk, Senior Director, Innovation and Customer Solutions, IDEMIA

National Security Solutions

Facial recognition technology has matured over the last decade and is now being broadly adopted in the commercial and the government space. Despite this progress, misconceptions remain and concerns about what this technology represents and how it works. This panel will address what facial recognition technology is about, how it has evolved over the years, and how it is being used in the law enforcement, homeland security, and national security communities.

Summit Session #2

Policy, Privacy, and Technology

Implications in Facial Recognition

Technology

Ben Bawden, Partner, Brooks Bawden Moore, LLC

Patrick Doyle, Global Justice & Law Enforcement Subject Matter Expert, Unisys

Corporation

Daniel Castro, Vice President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

As the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, homeland security, and national security agencies across the nation increases, there is a growing concern about citizens’ privacy and civil liberties. One of the challenges that facial recognition technology faces is the fast pace of innovation with this technology as compared to the slower pace of the related usage policies. This panel will discuss the challenges that agencies face in the use of this technology and how they are addressing the privacy, civil liberties, and policy issues.

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Your 2018-2019 IJIS Institute Board of Directors

Chairman Michael Wagers, Vice President, Axon

Vice Chairman James (Benji) Hutchinson, Senior Director of DC Operations, NEC Corporation

Secretary James E. Cabral, Partner, MTG Management Consultants LLC

Treasurer Tanya Stauffer, Practice Director, Analysts International

Director At-Large Tom Herzog, President, The Herzog Group

Board Members Kirk Arthur, Managing Director, Microsoft

Ben Harrell, Director of Sales & Marketing, Marquis Software, Inc.

Bill Josko, Public Safety Practice Leader & Association, IBM Global

Roger Mann, CEO, Global Flyte, Inc.

Michael McDonald, Business Development Manager, Intellicheck, Inc.

Kay Stephenson, CEO, Datamaxx Group, Inc.

David Taylor, Vice President, Software AG

Robert Turner, President, CommSys

Dan Twohig, MSSSI VP of Sales, Motorola Solutions

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Colonel Joseph Richard (Rick) Fuentes

New Jersey State Police (Retired)

2019 Robert P. Shumate National Public Safety and Justice Contributor to Excellence Award Recipient

Joseph Richard (Rick) Fuentes joined the New Jersey

State Police in 1978 and rose through the ranks from

a general road-duty trooper to overseeing the

intelligence section before being named

superintendent. His career at the New Jersey State

Police spanned 39 years. During his time

with the New Jersey State Police, Col.

Fuentes provided local, state, and

national leadership to encourage and

sponsor secure critical information

sharing to improve public safety, law

enforcement, and homeland security.

Col. Fuentes has had almost four decades

of experience in law enforcement, public

safety, homeland security, and

emergency management. As superintendent of the

New Jersey State Police, a gubernatorial appointee

confirmed by the state legislature, he has served four

governors, both Democrat and Republican, beginning

with Governor James McGreevey and culminating

with two terms of the administration of Governor

Christopher Christie. As superintendent, Fuentes

commanded an enlisted and civilian work force of

more than 4,000 men and women tasked with a

broad range of patrol, investigative, homeland

security, administrative, forensic laboratory, and

emergency management responsibilities. He

managed an annual budget of more than $300

million.

Col. Fuentes shepherded the New Jersey State Police

through a federal consent decree imposed by the U.S.

Department of Justice (DOJ) in 1999. Working closely

with DOJ and the state attorney general’s office,

Fuentes established new patrol and search

procedures, overhauled operational, disciplinary,

training, and performance protocols and created

stringent accountability for all layers of supervision

and management. Anticipating the termination of the

federal consent decree in 2009, Mr. Fuentes

successfully petitioned Governor Jon Corzine and the

Governor’s Advisory Committee on Police Standards

to continue the reforms of the federal decree as a

matter of state law. The Law Enforcement

Professional Standards Act of 2009, signed

into law by Governor Corzine, continues to

provide a statutorily protection for these

reforms.

During his tenure as superintendent, the

New Jersey State Police was nationally

recognized for its management

accountability and patrol practices and has

received four consecutive accreditations by

the Commission for the Accreditation of Law

Enforcement Agencies.

In his capacity as superintendent, Mr. Fuentes also

served as the state director of the Office of

Emergency Management. He managed more than 25

presidentially-declared states of emergency in New

Jersey, most notable being Superstorm Sandy in 2012

and the blizzard of 2010. He also created and

managed New Jersey’s state and local response to

New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in

2005 and to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of

Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Fuentes has served on a variety of law enforcement

boards. He has served as a member of the Executive

Committee of the International Association of Chiefs

of Police, the general chair of the IACP State and

Provincial Division, chair of the IACP Homeland

Security Committee and served six years as a member

of the Second Executive Session on Policing at the

Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of

Government. During 2015-2016, he was selected to

participate on the DHS’s Homeland Security Advisory

Council Customs and Border Patrol Integrity Advisory

Council. He has also served as a charter member of

two main law enforcement advisory bodies to the

United States Attorney General: the Global Advisory

Working Group and the Criminal Intelligence

Coordinating Council. For five years, he was a seated

charter member of the Director of National

Intelligence’s (ODNI) Law Enforcement Advisory

Board, serving first under Director James Clapper and

most recently under Director Dan Coats. In his

position on the ODNI Law Enforcement Partner’s

Board, Fuentes has been tireless in his advocacy to

raise the collective priority of the intelligence

community against the scourge of international drug

trafficking organizations, urban violence, and criminal

street gangs.

Fuentes worked closely with the executive command

of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to

promote the use of the national fusion center

network in a manner that will build bridges and

create collaborations between the DEA and the U.S.

Department of Health that would allow for timely

assessments on the national impacts and

consequences of the of the opioid crisis, particularly

as it pertains to the increasing spread of heroin and

fentanyl. At a meeting at ODNI in July 2017, he

introduced a plan to use the state-run forensic

laboratories and fusion centers to provide the DEA

with very specific trace properties on all seized

fentanyl and its many analogs. This would allow DEA

to approach countries, such as China, with specific

information identifying fentanyl production

laboratories that account for the majority of illicit

U.S. sales.

During his tenure as superintendent and throughout

his participation on federal advisory committees,

Fuentes has maintained that the continued strength

and effectiveness of public safety in this country rests

on the ability to work closely with and harness the

enormous power and knowledge of state and local

law enforcement in a manner that will significantly

disrupt the efforts of international and domestic

criminal and terrorist organizations. He is also an

ardent supporter of collaborations between

educational institutions and law enforcement –

collaborations that have driven crime reductions,

police reforms, and accountability measures that

created greater legitimacy between law enforcement

and the communities that it serves.

Fuentes was an early adopter of the concepts of

information sharing and creating an information

sharing environment. Early in the Colonel’s history of

model data sharing, IJIS recognized that value that he

brought to the mission community. Any opportunity

to collaborate would result in models that would

have long-term impacts on the operational and

solution-provider communities, yielding benefits that

would contribute to the national evolution of data

sharing to secure our citizenry. During his tenure with

the Criminal Intelligence Coordination Committee

and GLOBAL, he supported numerous pilot and

demonstration projects to demonstrate the value of

information sharing to support critical public safety

priorities – the list of efforts is long. Fuentes was

intimately involved in creating the network of Fusion

centers and standing up the New Jersey Regional

Operations and Intelligence Center (ROIC), which has

served as a model for the 78 other fusion centers in

the US. He supported the I95 information sharing

effort which facilitated the exchange of information

from Boston to Richmond to focus of weapon, drug,

and human trafficking. During his involvement with

the ODNI, he championed numerous sharing efforts

and the development of standards.

In New Jersey, he was the principal partner in

creating the CorrStat Rt. 21 effort which addresses

violence in the north east portion of the state. He

was one of several partners who supported and

testified on behalf of creating the information sharing

environment (ISE) legislation in New Jersey. This

state-level ISE was the first of its kind nationally,

using the lessons-learned from the Nationwide SAR

Initiative that brought the contributions of both the

NJ ROIC and the IJIS Institute. In these efforts and

several others, IJIS enjoyed a partnership with the

Colonel that inspired great results and directly

impacted the safety of our hometown communities.

In the public health arena, his leadership assisted the

development of a model for the drug monitoring

initiative which has become a national model. Within

the Division of State Police, he fostered the sharing of

information between the state and local law

enforcement as well as creating the concept of

intelligence-led policing efforts. Finally, he has been a

champion for the use of data to drive operations. He

partnered with Rutgers University to analyze data in

the area of shootings and firearms trafficking to

create investigation and policy priorities. Even

beyond his retirement from NJ DSP, he remains

active and vigilant in support of national public safety

and security communities.

Fuentes holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from

the City University of New York with a published

dissertation on the domestic business operations of

Colombian cocaine cartels. He has possessed a Top

Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information

security clearance issued by the Federal Bureau of

Investigation.

Over the span of his investigative career with the

NJSP, he has received numerous awards, to include:

• the National Meritorious Intelligence Award,

issued while a member of the Newark Joint

Terrorism Task Force for his contribution to

the investigation and prosecution of Yu

Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red

Army;

• 1993 Trooper of the Year award for several

drug trafficking investigations resulting in the

seizure of two tons of cocaine; and

• the Arthur Niederhoffer Memorial Fellowship

for achievement and service within the John

Jay College Doctoral Program in Criminal

Justice.

Col Fuentes was nominated for the Robert P.

Shumate Justice and Public Safety Contributor to

Excellence Award by Thomas J. O’Reilly, the executive

policy advisor of the Rutgers University Center on

Policing (COP) and a former official with the

Department of Justice. Fuentes and O’Reilly have

worked together on a variety of information sharing

efforts for more than 15 years, and Fuentes is

currently working on a regional sharing effort with

Rutgers COP, The Real Time Crime Center, and the

New York Police Department.

At his retirement ceremony in 2017, Governor

Christie praised Fuentes for a distinguished career

and especially for his work during Superstorm Sandy,

saying there was "no one who worked better or more

effectively" in handling the 2012 storm and its

aftermath. At the ceremony, Fuentes said he could

sum up his career in two sentences: "There were days

and there were times when I wanted to go home

from work early. There was never a single day I can

remember when I didn't want to come to work."

We honor the work and contributions to justice and

public safety excellence by Col. Fuentes and are

pleased to present him with the 2019 Robert P.

Shumate National Public Safety and Justice

Contributor to Excellence Award.

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