GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
This section provides users links to various government publications relating to intelligence, including laws that may affect intelligence collection, storage, and dissemination and technology publications that address intelligence systems. Also included in this section are publications regarding general criminal justice information.
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Reducing Crime Through Intelligence-Led Policing serves to demonstrate the value of ILP in improving agency operations. The purpose of this document is to illustrate, to agencies across the US, successful crime reduction efforts by law enforcement agencies using intelligence-led policing.
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The booklet Law Enforcement Analytic Standards discusses the standards created by the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) as a result of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP) recommendations. The analytic standards consist of 25 standards that explain the requirements of agencies to adopt the minimum standards for intelligence-led policing in order to support the development of sound, professional, and analytical products (intelligence). The standards are composed of educational standards and intelligence process standards, as well as testimony, data-source attribution, and feedback standards.
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Role of State and Local Law Enforcement in First Amendment Events
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Designed to serve as a pocket-sized reference card for line officers who are responding to a First Amendment-protected event and provides an overview of their roles and responsibilities, as well as an overview of the rights of the participants of First Amendment-protected events.
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Recommendations for First Amendment-Protected Events for State and Local Law Enforcement
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Provides guidance and recommendations to law enforcement agency personnel in understanding their roles and responsibilities in First Amendment-protected events. This guidance document is divided into three stages: Pre-Event, Operational, and Post-Event, with each stage identifying the recommended actions of law enforcement. The resource also provides an overview of how fusion centers can support law enforcement in its public safety mission in regards to these types of events.
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The U.S. DOJ’s Global Advisory Committee, its working groups, and partner organizations have developed many valuable resources to assist practitioners in improving agency operations and criminal intelligence sharing efforts. However, to centrally locate these resources in an easily accessible format/venue and provide a single reference to “all things intelligence” is an ongoing goal and challenge. The Criminal Intelligence Resources Guide (“Guide”) was created to address this need. This compendium of intelligence products was prepared under the guidance of the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC) and its research arm, the Global Intelligence Working Group, providing a well-balanced approach not only to the content and organization of the Guide itself but to the many resources included. While the Guide does not claim to be the all-encompassing intelligence resource, it does aim to capture a valuable representation of the related tools available to the justice community. This is a “living document,” and persistent efforts will be employed to continually update it as new resources are identified.
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Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Compliance Verification for the Intelligence Enterprise
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This document assists agencies in determining whether they are in compliance with applicable privacy-related policies, procedures, rules, and guidelines. The document includes a suggested methodology for conducting the review of an agency's intelligence enterprise and identifies the high-liability areas of concern that should be included when performing the review. The document also contains a suggested list of questions to answer when conducting the compliance process but may not cover all laws, policies, and procedures that are applicable to a particular state or agency.
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This document serves as an overview for implementing the Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP) framework within a law enforcement agency and provides insight regarding the challenges of ILP implementation. Law enforcement executives can use this document as a resource to assist in the successful implementation of the ILP framework within their agency.
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The purpose of this document is to provide a methodology for fusion center directors and managers to facilitate technology planning and to provide a practical perspective on the value of technology as an enabler to the fusion center mission. This document has been developed to work in conjunction with other fusion center technology information resources.
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The purpose of this document is to provide a tool to fusion center directors/managers to assist with understanding and implementing the fundamental business requirements of the center and planning for the underlying components for each of the business processes the particular fusion center is or will be undertaking (e.g., SAR process, training, and statewide incident analysis).
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The purpose of this document is to provide fusion center leaders—in particular, senior technology managers—with guidance on how information, technology infrastructure, applications, performance metrics, and business processes align with the core business capabilities of a fusion center. Leaders can use this document to assist in formulating a strategic technology vision and plan for their centers and to support sound investment and technology selection decisions within such a plan. The document accomplishes this purpose largely by referencing existing guidelines and recommendations published by the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global), the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), DHS, and PM-ISE. The intent is to link the existing work into a cohesive, more usable framework for fusion center decision making.
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Annual Report to the Congress on the Information Sharing Environment—June 2008
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This second Annual Report to the Congress on the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) is submitted in accordance with requirements in Section 1016(h) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, as amended. This report describes the state of the ISE, highlights areas where there has been measurable progress in improving information sharing, and demonstrates the value of the ISE to the nation’s broader counterterrorism mission.
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Law Enforcement Tech Guide for Creating Performance
Measures That Work
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This Tech Guide provides law enforcement and justice agencies with background information and a structured process for measuring and managing performance. It is not just about measuring the impact of a particular program. It addresses a) establishing precise, measurable priorities and objectives; b) measuring progress in determining priorities, achieving objectives, and realizing value in real terms; c) providing incentives, establishing accountability, and ensuring that programs and operations are strategically focused and tactically implemented and monitored to achieve the results intended; and d) incorporating ongoing performance measurement into the fundamental structure and management of operations of law enforcement and justice agencies. This Tech Guide is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
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Sharing Criminal Record Information Among New Mexico
Tribes and State
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This Policy Issue Brief discusses a groundbreaking effort by the state of New Mexico and three Indian nations—the Pueblos of Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni—to improve criminal record information sharing across tribal, state and federal jurisdictions, through forging new partnerships with the common goal of improving public safety.
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) report "The SAFE Acts of 2005: H.R. 1526 and S. 737—A Sketch" discusses these two acts. The acts address many of the same issues including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretaps, delayed notification of “sneak-and-peek” search warrants, library and similar exemptions from FISA tangible item orders and communications related to national security letters, the definition of “domestic terrorism,” and expansion of the sunset provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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BRB Publications, Inc. (BRB), provides links to free government searchable sites as well as some nongovernment sites. BRB Publications, Inc., maintains a series of databases with profiles of over 26,000 government and private entities involved with public record access.
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The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) preserves and distributes computerized crime and justice data from state and federal agencies and investigator-initiated research projects to users for secondary statistical analysis. The NACJD is supported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the U.S. Department of Justice. The central mission of NACJD is to facilitate and to encourage research in the field of criminal justice through the preservation and sharing of computerized data resources and through the provision of specialized training in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data. NACJD assists in identification of appropriate criminal justice data collections on specific topics, custom subsetting of selected data files through the online data analysis system, and the retrieval and use of files obtained from the archive.
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The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 is intended to improve the intelligence, intelligence community, and intelligence-related activities of the United States government, including the prevention and prosecution of terrorism, border security, and international cooperation and coordination.
