Justice Management Division Serving Justice - Securing Results
TITLE:
Justice Automated Command Center System
ACRONYM:
JACCS
ORIGINATOR:
Department/Agency
Name: U.S. Department of Justice
Major Organization Subdivision: Justice Management Division
Minor Organization Subdivision: Security and Emergency Planning Staff
Name of Unit: Command Center
Street Address: 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Room 6100
City: Washington, D.C.
State:
Zip Code: 20530
Country: United States
Hours of Service: 24 hours / 7 Days
Telephone:
FAX:
E-mail Address:
PURPOSE:
The system provides office automation for the Justice Command
Center which serves as the crisis center for the Department of Justice.
AGENCY PROGRAM:
The mission of the United States Department of Justice is to enforce the law and
defend the interests of the U.S. according to the law, provide Federal leadership
in preventing and controlling crime, seek just punishment for those guilty of
unlawful behavior, administer and enforce the Nation's immigration laws fairly
and effectively and ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all
Americans. JACCS is a tool to support the Justice Department's mission by serving
as support to the Justice Department's Crisis Center.
RESPONSIBLE
OFFICE FOR DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION (if different from originator):
Department/Agency
Name: U.S. Department of Justice
Major Organization Subdivision: Justice Management Division
Minor Organization Subdivision: Executive Secretariat
Name of Unit:
Street Address: 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 1110
City: Washington, DC
State:
Zip Code: 20530-0001
Country: United States
Hours of Service: 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM Monday through Friday
Telephone: (202)514-3123
Fax:
E-mail:
ORDER PROCESS:
In order to protect your privacy, whenever you request information about yourself
you will be asked to provide either a notarized statement or a statement signed
under penalty of perjury stating that you are the person that you claim to be.
You may fulfill this requirement by: (1) completing and signing Form DOJ-361,
(2) having your signature on your request letter witnessed by a notary, or (3)
including the following statement just before the signature on your request letter:
"I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed on [date]." If you request information about yourself and do not
follow one of these procedures, your request cannot be processed. This requirement
helps to ensure that private information about you will not be disclosed to anyone
else.
Files relating
to another person regarding a matter which would invade that person's privacy
ordinarily will not be disclosed. For example, if you seek information that would
show that someone else (including even your spouse or another member of your immediate
family) has ever been the subject of a criminal investigation--or even was mentioned
in a criminal file--you will be requested to provide either: (1) a statement by
that other person authorizing the release of the information to you which has
been signed by that person and either was witnessed by a notary or includes a
declaration made under penalty of perjury (using the language quoted in the preceding
paragraph), or (2) evidence that the subject of your request is deceased, such
as a death certificate, a newspaper obituary, or some comparable proof of death.
Without proof of death or the subject's consent, in almost all cases components
of the Justice Department will respond to a request made for information concerning
another person's role in a law enforcement matter by advising the requester that
it will "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of responsive records.
Such law enforcement information about a living person is released without that
person's consent only when no privacy interest would be invaded by disclosing
the information, when the information is already public or required to be made
public, or when there is such a strong public interest in the disclosure that
it overrides the individual's privacy interest.
In making your
request you should be as specific as possible with regard to names, dates, places,
events, subjects, etc. If known, you should include any file designations or descriptions
for the records that you want. You do not have to give a requested record's name
or title, but the more specific you are about the records or types of records
that you want, the more likely it will be that the Justice Department will be
able to locate those records.
There is no initial
fee to file a FOIA request and, in the majority of requests made to the Justice
Department, no fees are ever charged. By law, however, an agency is entitled to
charge certain fees, which depend on the category of requester you fall into.
For the purposes
of fees only, the FOIA divides requesters into three categories. Commercial requesters
may be charged fees for searching for records, processing the records, and photocopying
them. On the other hand, educational or noncommercial scientific institutions
and representatives of the news media are charged only for photocopying expenses,
after the first 100 pages of copies. Requesters who do not fall into either of
these two categories are not charged for processing, only for searches and photocopying,
and there is no charge for the first two hours of search time or for the first
100 pages of photocopies. The Justice Department currently charges 10 cents per
page for photocopying. In all cases, if the total fee does not exceed a minimum
amount, currently $8.00, the Justice Department will not charge any fee at all.
You may always
include in your request letter a specific statement limiting the amount that you
are willing to pay in fees. If you do not do so, the Justice Department will assume
that you are willing to pay fees of up to $25. If a component estimates that the
total fees for processing your request will exceed $25, it will notify you in
writing of the estimate and offer you an opportunity to narrow your request in
order to reduce the fees. If you continue to want all of the records involved
you will be asked to express your commitment to pay the estimated fees and the
processing of your request will be suspended until you agree to do so. You ordinarily
will not be required to actually pay the fees until the records have been processed
and are ready to be sent to you. If, however, you have failed to pay fees within
30 days of billing in the past, or if the estimated fees exceed $250, you may
be required to pay the estimated fees in advance. If you agree to pay fees and
then fail to do so within 30 days of billing, you may be charged interest on your
overdue balance and the Justice Department will not process any further requests
from you until payment has been made in full. If you agree to pay fees for searching
for records, be aware that you may be required to pay such fees even if the search
does not locate any responsive records or, if records are located, they are withheld
as entirely exempt.
Request for information
must be submitted in writing to U.S. Department of Justice, Justice Management
Division, Executive Secretariat, 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Room 1110, Washington,
DC 20530-0001.
OFFICE OF CONTACT
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION (if different from originator):
Department/Agency
Name: U.S. Department of Justice
Major Organization Subdivision: Justice Management Division
Minor Organization Subdivision: Executive Secretariat
Name of Unit:
Street Address: 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 1110
City: Washington, DC
State:
Zip Code: 20530-0001
Country: United States
Hours of Service: 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM Monday through Friday
Telephone: 202-514-3123
Fax:
E-mail:
DATE OF LAST
MODIFICATION: 9/2008
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