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