Trends In Criminal History Scott Came Executive Director, SEARCH Criminal Records Division Conference, Washington State Patrol March 9, 2015
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Introduction 1
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Some SEARCH Resources Policy Statements: search/policy-statements/ search/policy-statements/ Law and Policy practice: al-history-records/ al-history-records/ Quality Assurance Program: Washington-based staff Washington SEARCH Member: Jim Anderson, WSP 2
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Agenda 3 Trends In Criminal History Policy and Technology
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | What are we talking about? 4
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Supply and Demand for Criminal Histories 5
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Demand Side 6 Trends in Usage of the Criminal History Infrastructure
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Volume of Usage of State Repositories 7 Source: BJS/SEARCH, Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems,
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Specific Measures of Repository Usage 8 Source: BJS/SEARCH, Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems,
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Congressional Action – Source: Congressional Quarterly, govtrack.us
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Congressional Action – 2015 In the four weeks of the 114 th Congress, we are already tracking 15 bills that add or update backgrounding requirements 10
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Firearms Purchases 11 Source: fbi.gov
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | State-level Attention I-594 Nevada – initiative on the ballot in 2016 Arizona and Maine – possible initiatives $22 million: spent by two PACs in last election cycle on gun control 12
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Supply Side 13 Trends in Provisioning of the Criminal History Infrastructure
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Federal Funding, Key Programs 14 Source: Congressional Quarterly
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Federal Funding: Byrne JAG 15 Source: Congressional Quarterly
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Overall State Government Spending 16 Source: US Census, Survey of State Government Finances; NASBO State Expenditure Report
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | State Funding: Public Safety 17 Source: US Census, Survey of State Government Finances; NASBO State Expenditure Report
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Funding: Fees 18 Source: BJS/SEARCH, Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2012
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Quality Assurance SEARCH/BJS Quality Assurance Program NICS Record Improvement Program (2013) Efficiency improvement initiatives 19
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Completeness of the Record 20 Source: BJS/SEARCH, Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2012
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Rap Sheet Standardization 21
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | General Policy Trends Justice Reinvestment Prison Reform Predictive Policing Evidence-based practices “Pay for Success” 22
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Technology Trends FBI NGI Program Biometrics (Palm, Photo, DNA, etc.) Rapback Leveraging operational data for research and analysis Identity management Government IT trends: Cloud, consolidation 23
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics | Discussion 24 Scott Came Executive Director, SEARCH –