Integrated Criminal Justice Systems and Fusion Centers
Information Builders Integrated Justice
Fusion Centers
State and local authorities have recently created Fusion Centers across the country to help reduce threats from terrorist, accidental, or natural disasters. The Federal Department of Homeland Security is providing funding to states and localities to help support these Fusion Centers, which are equipped with surveillance, communications, and information technology systems, and provide decision-makers with real-time (or near real-time) situational awareness.
Information Builders technologies are being used in a number of Fusion Centers for data and systems integration, as well as for delivering information to analysts and decision-makers. Most notably, our criminal justice integration technologies are fusing local criminal history, records management, and incident management systems so that analysts can search across them to pinpoint a suspect, location, or incident of interest. Intelligence analysts also use our technologies to perform ad hoc bi-directional reporting from geographic information systems (GIS) to ferret out gangs and terrorist organizations before they may do harm. Information Builders technologies also provide state and local health departments – and by proxy, analysts using them in Fusion Centers – with syndromic surveillance systems and real-time hospital bed and emergency room visit information for real-time situational awareness of public health related events.
Integrating Criminal Justice Information Systems
Information technology has become law enforcement’s indispensable ally in the war against crime. Although this is a natural result of technological advances, a big impetus has been 9/11, which has thrust anti-terrorism initiatives and the need for inter-agency, department, and government collaboration at all levels to the forefront.
Law enforcement, public safety, courts, corrections, probations, parole, DAs and public defenders, and even agencies like the DMV, Labor, Business Licensing and, Human and Social Services, are involved in criminal justice integration systems (CJIS) projects and are leveraging our tools to share data in real time.
Today, Information Builders' solutions are helping federal, state, and local agencies harness their information assets to fight and deter crime and administer justice more efficiently. Information can be delivered in almost any format and method needed – via e-mail, intranet portals, self-service Web applications, or over secure wireless devices and networks.
Securely Access, Integrate and Share Criminal Justice Data
Information Builders Integrated Justice Suite of tools makes it faster, easier, cheaper and less risky to integrate justice systems, analyze information, and electronically distribute it securely from multiple legacy systems in service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
Our Integrated Justice Suite is a standards-based set of tools that enable easy – and secure – access to data with our National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) compliant Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) Adapter. Criminal Justice Information can be pushed, pulled, published, subscribed to, and queried by all members of the justice community. This information can be visually analyzed, graphed, mapped, and disseminated electronically.
With these capabilities, agencies are able to track and monitor individuals through the criminal justice system, perform crime analysis, identify and thwart potential money-laundering schemes, strengthen borders, enforce immigration processes, and identify and forecast crime patterns and trends in order to allocate resources most efficiently.
Government agencies currently use Information Builders technologies for:
- Integrating criminal justice information systems
- Crime mapping, reporting, and analysis
- Money laundering detection
- Comprehensive pre-sentencing background checks
- Online court docket information
- Uniform crime reporting/national incident-based reporting systems
- Sex offender registries
- Accident and citation reporting
- Integrating warrant systems
- Motor vehicle violations tracking
- Transportation, port, and border security
- Domestic violence incident reporting
- Fugitive felon tracking
Development and Implementation
Information Builders Professional Services includes public sector solutions, training, and implementations specialists to assist with your implementation needs.
For More Information
Call Information Builders' Federal Systems Group or contact our local branches to speak to an Information Builders representative.
