LEISI Directorate Presentation

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Law Enforcement Information Sharing Initiative
Presentation to Vancouver International Security
Conference Vancouver, Canada, December 1, 2009
Jason A. Henry Unit Chief December 2009
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Agenda

• LEISI Mission, Vision, Guiding Principles
• LEISI Responsibilities
• LEISI Support to DHS Information Sharing
  Initiatives
• Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service
• DHS/DOD Information Sharing Opportunities

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LEISILaw Enforcement Information Sharing
Initiative
Transform the DHS Law Enforcement Information
Sharing Environment to integrate culture,
governance, business processes and technologies
across the Department and with external partners
to ensure the right information is delivered to
the right person(s) at the right time in the
right way.
MISSION
Enable an agile environment for Law Enforcement
Information Sharing to secure the Homeland
VISION
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LEISILaw Enforcement Information Sharing
Initiative

• Key Guiding Concepts
• DHS must move from a Need to Know to a
  Responsibility to Share mindset
• DHS must provide relevant and timely information
  and deliver it to the right person
• DHS information sharing must protect sources and
  methods as well as the private citizen
• DHS must develop workable policy, standards and
  guidelines to support well documented charters,
  rules of operations and agreements

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DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service

• Provides a conduit to facilitate the sharing of
  law enforcement information.
• Will allow international and regional law
  enforcement information sharing systems to access
  and search DHS law enforcement and investigative
  records.
• Provides the capability for federal users to
  access other federal, regional, state and local
  law enforcement information.
• Provides automated rapid response to law
  enforcement users
• Shares information in NIEM and LEXS compliant
  formats and can connect to various regional
  sharing services

• LEISI will support other Departmental law
  enforcement information sharing initiatives as
  they are introduced

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DHS LEIS Service

• Simply stated, the LEIS Service is the pipe
  used to connect state and local law enforcement
  with DHS law enforcement.
• Exposes DHS subject (person-centric) case
  information in the Immigration and Customs
  Enforcement Pattern Analysis and Information
  Collection (ICEPIC) tool.
• Allows for the exchange between heterogeneous IT
  infrastructures

Local System
ICEPIC
LEIS Service
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DHS INFORMATION SHARING INITIATIVES Regional
Approach
(CJIS) OneDOJ May 08
(LINX NW) Seattle - Aug 08 MSA Pop 2.5M
(LInX National Capital Region) MSA 5.3M
LASD (COPLINK) Mar 08 MSA Pop. 9.9M
AZ Link - 3Q 2009 MSA Pop. 4.2M
Pending National Connections through DOJ NDEx,
NLETS
TDEx - 4Q 2010 State Pop. 23.8M
(LInX Rio Grande) State Pop. 1.98M
ARJIS (SD) - Mar 08 MSA Pop. 3.0M

• Utilizing Established Sharing Communities

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INFORMATION SHARING INITIATIVES International
Approach

• Sharing Locations
• Mexico
• Colombia
• Spain
• Interpol (France)
• Germany

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INFORMATION SHARING INITIATIVES National
Approach (Nlets)
ICE Query
Via the Nlets system, law enforcement entities
can query ICE data sources from any location in
the United States.
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Information Sharing Methods

• Today, there are multiple methods of obtaining
  law enforcement information
• LINX DOD module of sharing DOD and local
  regional law information
• OneDOJ DOJ module of sharing DOJ regional law
  enforcement data as well as federal and local
  incident structured data
• LEO DOJ portal for sharing alerts and
  collaboration around law enforcement data
• HSIN-LE DHS portal for sharing alerts and
  collaboration around law enforcement data
• Many choices that require local communities to
  commit resources into multiple methods to get
  data
• Must leverage existing IT systems
• Allow for unanticipated users
• Reduce complexity, cost time
• Adhere to the rule of simplicity

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Utilize NIEM/LEXS SR Standard Format

• NIEM is the set of standards for information
  exchange
• The model defines a way of describing information
  so disparate systems can exchange it effectively
  and consistently
• It is system-agnostic, so existing IT investments
  can be leveraged
• DOJ, DOD and DHS have agreed to use NIEM/LEXS as
  the common protocol for exchanging law
  enforcement information between agencies
• There are five entities in the LEXS model that
  will be used by Law Enforcement
• Person
• Location
• Organization
• Telephone number
• Property
• LEXS groups entities into logical records,
  defined by the source system
• Incident data
• Document data
• Inmate record

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What is NIEM?
Components of NIEM
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LEXS Search Retrieval Supported Queries

• Text Search This is a Google type search that
  will return results based on unstructured data
  hits. (Results will be returned in a summary
  format)
• Structured Search This is a typical search
  based on structured elements that will return
  results based on positive hits within the
  structured fields (Results will be returned in a
  summary format)
• Detail Data Returns the detail record
  associated with an identified field ( This query
  would be used to drill down on after a text or
  structured search was complete)

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Implementation Approach
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DHS Single Access to All Law Enforcement
Office of the CIO Federal Information
Sharing Integration Architecture _________________
_____ Visual Key OneDOJ
DHS OneNET State Local Regional
Information Sharing
Applications Future System
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DHS Architecture Overview
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LEIS Service Sharing Goals

• Improve Data Mapping to Sharing Communities LEXS
  versions
• Increase availability of data elements via
  current datamart
• Pro-active Auditing of usage
• Standardize Sharing Community rules for queries
• Some more restrictive
• Inconsistent use of Name Variants, Fuzzy Logic,
  etc
• Understand Paradigm differences of Federal and
  Local Law Enforcement data sets
• Subject-centric versus Event-centric
• Sometimes difficult to match data elements

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Summary

• The LEISI will
• Provide business sponsorship and promote state
  and local law enforcement involvement in the
  Departments new and existing law enforcement
  information sharing programs.
• Contribute to development and standardization of
  the broader DHS information sharing methods,
  practices, and policies.
• Strongly advocate for continuous improvement in
  information access and analytical technologies.

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