JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEM JUSTIS Case Study Criminal Justice

JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEM (JUSTIS) Case Study Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) and Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) of the District of Columbia Present JUSTIS Case Study Jointly Presented By: Timothy Barnes– Enterprise Director at CSOSA Richard Catalon – IT Liaison Officer at CJCC

Agenda • • Overview of CJCC Overview of JUSTIS Overview of CSOSA Case Study – How CSOSA participates in Data Sharing – Goal – Objectives – Solution – Security & Privacy – Benefits • Next Steps • Questions and Answers 2

CJCC History • The D. C. Appropriations Act, 2000 (P. L. 106 -113, 113 Stat. 1501, 1532 (1999) mandated that the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) study and report on the DC criminal justice system • In March 2001 the GAO released the report, entitled DC Criminal Justice System, Better Coordination Needed Among Participating Agencies, which recommended the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council as a necessary venue for the District's criminal justice agencies to identify and address interagency public safety issues 3

CJCC History Contd. . • In 2001, the DC Council implemented this recommendation by enacting DC Code § 22 -4232 which created the CJCC as an independent agency of the District of Columbia. The statute designated the Mayor as the chair of the CJCC and listed the agencies under the District Government that should participate • Congress passed legislation (PL 107 -180) the following year authorizing a federal payment and authorizing the heads of federal agencies to participate as members

Who is CJCC? CJCC is dedicated to continually improving the administration and execution of public safety and criminal justice in the District of Columbia. The agency provides a federal/district partnership, which is united in resolving concerns of our citizens about crime and justice. 5

CJCC MISSION The mission of the CJCC is to serve as the forum for identifying issues and their solutions, proposing actions, and facilitating cooperation that will improve public safety and the related criminal and juvenile justice services for District of Columbia residents, visitors, victims, and offenders. 6

Participating Agencies FEDERAL AGENCIES • D. C. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) • U. S. Probation Office (USPO) • U. S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) • High Intensity Drug Trafficking Agency (HIDTA) • U. S. Parole Commission (USPC) • U. S. Secret Service (USSS) • U. S. Capitol Police (USCP) • U. S. Marshals Service (USMS) • U. S. Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) • D. C. Office of Unified Communications (OUC) 7

Participating Agencies Contd. . DISTRICT AGENCIES • D. C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) • D. C. Superior Court (DCSC) • D. C. Pretrial Services Agency (PSA) • D. C. Office of Attorney General (OAG) • D. C. Public Defender Service (PDS) • D. C. Child & Family Services Agency (CFSA) • D. C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) • D. C. Department of Corrections (DCDC) • Bureau of Election and Ethics (BEE) • D. C. Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)

JUSTIS Overview JUSTICE Information System (JUSTIS) of the District of Columbia A joint, regional project of local, and federal law enforcement agencies to share criminal justice data across and within the region. Increase crime fighting capabilities that support defense of our communities and the Homeland. 9

JUSTIS Overview Contd. . • A common interface to retrieve information securely from various agencies • Provides search capabilities with sub second responses • One stop solution – Agencies now have a one stop solution to view information and data from various Criminal Information Systems • Intuitive interface satisfying performance, visual, security, data, privacy, and information requirements 10

JUSTIS Overview Contd. . • Provide Infrastructure to securely transfer information between agencies to support business processes • A way to promote system integration and information sharing at an “enterprise” level • A mechanism to implement inter-agency relationships and processes Justice Integ. Layer • A way to align business processes and services with IT infrastructure and services Interfaces= n(n-1) Interfaces= 2 n Source: US Department of Homeland Security… it. ojp. gov 11

JUSTIS Results • Availability of information from multiple disparate systems in seconds • Criminal justice practitioners can make faster and better informed decisions For example, Police Officer and Detectives have multiple mug shots available to see how the offender’s appearance has evolved over time • Provides immediate capabilities for: – Tactical – Line Officer – Investigative – Detective – Analytical – Crime Analysts 12

JUSTIS Results Contd. . • Easy plug-n-play interface for agencies to contribute and share data, thereby substantially reducing local implementation costs and improving the value of your Tax Dollars • Standards based implementation (GJXDM, NIEM, SOA) resulting in long term viability of solution and easy integration at regional and national level • Utilizes existing agencies’ systems and infrastructure • 2007 Excellence. Gov Award by American Council of Technology 13

Who is CSOSA? CSOSA is an independent federal agency created by the National Capital Revitalization and Self. Government Improvement Act of 1997 CSOSA has the operational responsibilities for Probation, Parole, and Supervised Release within the District of Columbia 14

CSOSA MISSION The mission of CSOSA is to increase public safety, prevent crime, reduce recidivism, and support the fair administration of justice in close collaboration with the community 15

Case Study CSOSA Data Sharing using Web Services Goal • Provide the officers in the field and the rest of the criminal justice practitioners via JUSTIS the most up-to-date information from CSOSA Case Management System (SMART) Objectives • Provide the following information / data for an offender • Parole, Probation, and Supervised Release information • Aliases • Home and Employment Address • Supervision information 16

Case Study: Objectives Contd. . • Mug Shots • Release conditions and stay away orders on different cases • Build one single reusable secure interface • Provide information / data to external partners • In near Real Time • Encrypted / Securely • Using XML and later upgrade it to be NIEM compliant • Based on long term Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)approach 17

Case Study: Solution • Develop Secure Web Services (WS) for information sharing • WS’s can be discovered through JUSTIS • JUSTIS can apply necessary security, content transformation, and content routing services 18

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Case Study: Security Contd. . • WS-Security Specification • 128 bit AES Data Encryption using Symmetric key • 256 Bit Encryption of Symmetric key using Public key of Requesting Agency • Encrypted Data and Key passed over to Requesting Agency for Decryption • IP Restriction to CJCC Domain • Firewalls • 128 Bit SSL certificate over HTTP • Audit trail of requesting agencies users and data access details • Error reporting • Validation Module Usage 22

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Case Study: Benefits • Improves business process efficiency by reducing cost and particularly time to connect applications • Increases the feasibility of real time, remote access to core source of information (owner-CSOSA) which provides current information to JUSTIS • Makes it easier to change or add partners • Provides a fundamental platform to CSOSA to easily integrate its SMART application functionality with other pieces of software/system like JUSTIS 24

CSOSA Next Steps • Develop complementary services to automate a key business process • Utilize NIEM standard and map exchanges to corresponding Information Exchange Packet Documents (IEPD) • Identify additional business practices and processes for information exchange and process automation • Deploy Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to enable enterprise wide SOA 25

JUSTIS Looking Ahead Maryland District of Columbia Virginia 26

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