TDEx and N-DEx Connecting Criminal Justice Agencies across Texas and the Nation

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TDEx and N-DEx Connecting Criminal Justice
Agencies acrossTexas and the Nation

• TCJIUG
• Austin, May 2006

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TDEx Connecting Criminal justice across Texas

• In todays world, security is a top priority. In
  order to provide all Texans with the protection
  they deserve, criminal justice professionals must
  work together. Sharing information is critical in
  the war against terror, drugs, and crime in
  general.
• TDEx not only opens the door of communication
  between agencies, but also drastically reduces
  the time involved in gathering information on
  offenders, jail records, and police incident
  reports.
• TDEx is about sharing data, while at the same
  time protecting it with a secure network. This
  cost-effective, time-saving tool will change the
  way law enforcement agencies investigate crime.

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What is TDEx?

• TDEx is a comprehensive information sharing
  portal that allows criminal justice agencies to
  exchange jail and records management systems
  data.
• TDEx will
• Allow law enforcement to quickly search subject
  or incident information across Texas and the
  nation
• Leverage law enforcement information to ensure
  public safety
• Encourage agencies to share information through
  one portal, without the need for multiple data
  entries
• Provide future connectivity to N-DEx

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TDEx will provide access to

• County jail incarceration records in custody
  and releases including photos, aliases, date of
  birth, and charges Texas Rangers Criminal
  Information Database
• Multi-jurisdictional reports including
  incidents, bookings, and traffic citations
• Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisoner
  data
• DPS Criminal Law Enforcement Records and
  Information Systems
• DPS Highway Patrol Database

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TDEx Benefits

• Searches on current or past incarcerations on
  major agency jails across Texas
• Access to more than one million booking photos
  across the nation
• Ability to create and view photo line ups
• Searches by name, narrative, physical
  characteristics, social security number or
  vehicle
• Users can place watches on wanted subjects or
  those of interest and receive notification when a
  subject is booked into a participating agency
• Provides resources and background information
  without having to contact multiple agencies
• Search RMS data from agencies across the state

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T-DEx Roll Out

• Starting with a Pilot in North Central Texas COG
  area
• 27 Agencies Represented
• As of April 21st nine agencies providing data
• Extending to border counties, as well
• Connect to N-DEx when it becomes available

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T-DEX Project Manager

• Justin Lopez, Plans Unit
• Division of Emergency Management
• 5805 N. Lamar Blvd.
• Austin, TX 78752-0223
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• justin.lopez_at_txdps.state.tx.us

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N-DEx Vision

• The vision of N-DEx is to share complete,
  accurate, timely and useful information across
  jurisdictional boundaries and to provide new
  investigative tools that enhance the Nations
  ability to fight crime and terrorism.

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N-DEx At-a-Glance

• N-DEx establishes a secure, national, criminal
  justice information sharing capability. Key
  points include
• A powerful new investigative tool to search,
  link, analyze and share criminal justice
  information (Incident/case reports, incarceration
  data and parole/probation data) on a national
  basis
• Detects relationships between people, places,
  things and crime characteristics, across
  jurisdictions
• Allows LEAs to connect the dots between
  seemingly unrelated data without information
  overload
• LEAs to decide what data to share, who can access
  it and under what circumstances

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N-DEx At-a-Glance

• Multiple options for connecting
• Costs to LEAs will vary depending on their
  current records management infrastructure. To
  minimize LEA costs and impacts N-DEx will
• Use nationally-developed standards and existing
  systems and networks
• Provide implementation support, tools and
  training
• Work with the federal agencies to establish
  grants/programs

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Key Thoughts

• Core Functionality
• The core functionality of N-DEx is the storage of
  law enforcement incident data in a central
  repository to provide the functions stated above.
  Although law enforcement investigations will be
  the primary focus of N-DEx, especially at
  start-up, future iterations will incorporate the
  full criminal justice community. The ultimate
  goal is to transform all criminal justice data
  into knowledge for the entire justice community.

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Key Thoughts

• Not a Statistical Reporting System
• N-DEx is an information sharing system and is not
  intended to be used for crime statistics
  reporting. Participation in NIBRS will not be
  required for N-DEx participation.
• No crime statistics will be reported from N-DEx.
• N-DEx has Intelligence Value Not an
  Intelligence System
• N-DEx is not an intelligence system and will not
  contain intelligence data. However, the N-DEx
  information and tools will provide value to the
  intelligence community.

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Key Thoughts

• Management of Data
• The management of LEA data shared in N-DEx will
  remain with the LEA that provided it.
• N-DEx will supply controls to allow LEAs to
  decide what data to share, who can access it and
  under what circumstances.
• It will allow agencies to participate in
  accordance with applicable laws and policies
  governing dissemination and privacy.

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Key Thoughts

• N-DEx Integration/Interfaces
• Numerous regional information sharing efforts
  have already integrated data from local agencies.
  
• It is the goal for these "repositories" to supply
  data to N-DEx on behalf of the local agencies, if
  they so desire.
• This concept has the benefit of providing a
  single point of data submission for the agencies
  participating in the regional systems as well as
  connecting the regional systems to each other.

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Key Thoughts

• Collaborative Development
• N-DEx will be designed and built in consultation
  with its local, state, tribal and federal
  partners in a collaborative manner.
• N-DEx will not dictate these foundational sharing
  elements they will be developed in a
  collaborative manner.
• Classification
• Only data classified as Sensitive but
  Unclassified (SBU) or below will be permitted
  within NDEx.

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Concept of Operations
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Role of the Major Police Associations

• International Chiefs of Police (IACP)
• Major City Chiefs (MCC)
• National Sheriffs Association (NSA)
• Major County Sheriffs (MCS)
• Wrote a unified Position Paper that stated the
  following.

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Role of the Major Police Associations

• Expressed support for law enforcement information
  sharing in general
• Stated that they could support N-DEx in
  particular if FBI CJIS fulfilled three
  requirements
• Create, with the participation of the
  associations, a clear statement of requirements.
  
• From that statement of requirements, create a
  cost model that local agencies could use to
  prepare for participation.
• Develop a clear communications plan to describe
  the system universally to the law enforcement
  community.

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N-DEx Major Milestones
Develop/Deploy Incrementally
Concept Executive Overview
Performance-Based Acquisition
Concept of Operations/SOO
4th Quarter 2005 1st Quarter 2006 1st Quarter
2007

• N-DEx Program Plan Finalized - Completed -
• Executive CONOPS approved by APB - Completed -
• Full CONOPS Approved by CONOPS Task Force -
  Completed -
• Statement of Objectives Developed -
  Completed -
• Request for Information Released - Completed
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• Full CONOPS Approved by APB 2nd Quarter 2006
• Request for Proposal Released 2nd Quarter 2006
• Design/Build Contract Award 1st Quarter 2007
• Incremental Development Begins 1st Quarter
  2007

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Questions

• David Gavin, Asst. Chief, Administration
• David.gavin_at_txdps.state.tx.us
• [phone]