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Law Enforcement Community Teams up to Take Down Identity Thieves
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While the number of identity theft cases reported to the Federal Trade Commission continue to climb, law enforcement officials struggle to solve cases left in the wake of criminals taking over identities and racking up mountains of debt, ruining credit and financially tarnishing good names. A new, three-year partnership between the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association (FBI-LEEDA), a non-profit corporation, and LifeLock aims to bring law enforcement together to educate and share information on identity theft trends. They will use this information to educate and empower consumers. LifeLock and FBI-LEEDA plan to host several free summits on identity theft throughout the next year. The October event will focus on a range of issues, including neighborhood identity theft, employer identity theft losses, relevant laws, awareness, protection strategies, high technology identity theft, and databases available to assist in investigations and more.
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New York State Development of a NIEM 2.0-Conformant IEPD for the New York Intra-State Criminal History Report (Rap Sheet) Project
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The purpose of this case study is to highlight the success of the development of a National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Document (IEPD) for the New York Intra-State Criminal History Report (Rap Sheet) Project. The development of Extensbile Markup Language (XML) schemas using NIEM is a central element of New York State's strategy for the effective integration of criminal justice information systems. The New York State (NYS) Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is in the process of converting legacy systems, including the mainframe rap sheet. New York City (NYC) is the last agency dependent on the mainframe rap. As part of NYC Datashare's eArraignment process, NYC will be the pilot site. DCJS has developed the NIEM-conformant XML rap sheet to replace the mainframe rap sheet to NYC. The XML rap sheet will also be available to any other NYS criminal justice agency that wishes to participate in that exchange. The funds appropriated to DCJS through the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) have been used to develop a NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD) XML rap sheet used in the exchange of the New York Intra-State Criminal History Report (rap sheet). Results of this project include creation of a NIEM 2.0-conformant rap sheet IEPD, completion of all required IEPD artifacts, and publication to the U.S. Department of Justice IEPD Clearinghouse for use by other states.
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Text Messaging for Washington, DC, Crime Watchers?
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Bus riders and Metrorail subway passengers in Washington, DC, could soon have another option for reporting incidents to Metro Transit Police—text messaging. Train passengers often complain of being too intimidated by rowdy teenagers to report juvenile crimes via phone calls. Text messaging could provide a stealthier way to alert police. Passengers with either BlackBerrys or Verizon cell phones would be the first riders able to text message crime reports. Verizon is the only cell phone provider offering service underground in the nation's capital. BlackBerrys also work underground because they operate on a proprietary network. If the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) pursues the idea, staffers would do a trial run to explore how the process would work. This idea has been tested in other police agencies across the country, however the decision on whether or not WMATA makes the option available to passengers will depend on the findings of the employees-only pilot program.
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Pennsylvainia’s Court Case Event: GJXDM to NIEM (G2N) Pilot Project
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Recently, the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET) merged its existing message management and approval document with its previous Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) development methodology to create a single comprehensive National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) message development process. The Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC), Court Case Event Message (CCE) is the largest data exchange currently available in JNET with more than 300 components. The CCE is currently GJXDM-conformant, and JNET selected the CCE transactions to develop the first NIEM-conformant message using the JNET NIEM repeatable procedures. The funds appropriated to JNET through the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) were used to create a pilot conversion of the AOPC Court Case Event Message (CCE) from GJXDM to NIEM 2.0 using the newly drafted JNET NIEM message development process. Results of this project include the creation of a NIEM 2.0 Court Case Event (CCE)-conformant IEPD, completion of all required IEPD artifacts, and publication to the Pennsylvania Enterprise Repository (PEAR) and the U.S. Department of Justice IEPD Clearinghouse for use by other states. Results also include the development of a NIEM Adoption White Paper; a Performance Measurement Plan; and a Lessons-Learned Report.
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