JUSTICE INFORMATION

SYSTEM (JUSTIS) Case Study

Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) and

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) of the

District of Columbia

Present

JUSTIS Case StudyJointly Presented By:

Timothy Barnes– Enterprise Director at CSOSA

Richard Catalon – IT Liaison Officer at CJCC

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Agenda

• Overview of CJCC• Overview of JUSTIS• Overview of CSOSA• Case Study – How CSOSA participates in Data

Sharing – Goal– Objectives– Solution– Security & Privacy– Benefits

• Next Steps• Questions and Answers

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• The D.C. Appropriations Act, 2000 (P.L. 106-113, 113

Stat.1501,1532 (1999) mandated that the US Government

Accounting Office (GAO) study and report on the DC

criminal justice system

• In March 2001 the GAO released the report, entitled DC

Criminal Justice System, Better Coordination Needed

Among Participating Agencies, which recommended the

Criminal Justice Coordinating Council as a necessary

venue for the District's criminal justice agencies to identify

and address interagency public safety issues

CJCC History

• In 2001, the DC Council implemented this

recommendation by enacting DC Code §22-4232 which

created the CJCC as an independent agency of the

District of Columbia. The statute designated the Mayor

as the chair of the CJCC and listed the agencies under the

District Government that should participate

• Congress passed legislation (PL 107-180) the

following year authorizing a federal payment and

authorizing the heads of federal agencies to participate

as members

CJCC History Contd..

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CJCC is dedicated to continually improving

the administration and execution of public

safety and criminal justice in the District

of Columbia. The agency provides a

federal/district partnership, which is

united in resolving concerns of our citizens

about crime and justice.

Who is CJCC?

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CJCC MISSION

The mission of the CJCC is to serve as the

forum for identifying issues and their

solutions, proposing actions, and

facilitating cooperation that will

improve public safety and the related

criminal and juvenile justice services for

District of Columbia residents, visitors,

victims, and offenders.

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Participating Agencies

FEDERAL AGENCIES• D.C. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)

• U.S. Probation Office (USPO)

• U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO)

• High Intensity Drug Trafficking Agency (HIDTA)

• U.S. Parole Commission (USPC)

• U.S. Secret Service (USSS)

• U.S. Capitol Police (USCP)

• U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)

• U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)

• D.C. Office of Unified Communications (OUC)

DISTRICT AGENCIES• D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)

• D.C. Superior Court (DCSC)

• D.C. Pretrial Services Agency (PSA)

• D.C. Office of Attorney General (OAG)

• D.C. Public Defender Service (PDS)

• D.C. Child & Family Services Agency (CFSA)

• D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS)

• D.C. Department of Corrections (DCDC)

• Bureau of Election and Ethics (BEE)

• D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)

Participating Agencies Contd..

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A joint, regional project of local, and federal law enforcement agencies to share criminal justice data across and within the region.

JUSTICE Information System

(JUSTIS) of the District of

Columbia

Increase crime fighting capabilities that support defense of our communities and the Homeland.

JUSTIS Overview

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JUSTIS Overview Contd..

• A common interface to retrieve information

securely from various agencies

• Provides search capabilities with sub second

responses

• One stop solution – Agencies now have a one

stop

solution to view information and data from various

Criminal Information Systems

• Intuitive interface satisfying performance, visual,

security, data, privacy, and information

requirements

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• Provide Infrastructure to securely transfer information between agencies to

support business processes

• A way to promote system integration and information sharing at an “enterprise” level

• A mechanism to

implement inter-

agency relationships and

processes

• A way to align business

processes and services

with IT infrastructure and

services

Interfaces= n(n-1) Interfaces= 2n

JusticeInteg.Layer

Source: US Department of Homeland Security… it.ojp.gov

JUSTIS Overview Contd..

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JUSTIS Results• Availability of information from multiple disparate systems in seconds

• Criminal justice practitioners can make faster and better informed decisionsFor example, Police Officer and Detectives have multiple mug shots available to see how the offender’s appearance has evolved over time

• Provides immediate capabilities for:– Tactical – Line Officer

– Investigative – Detective

– Analytical – Crime Analysts

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• Easy plug-n-play interface for agencies to contribute and share data, thereby substantially reducing local implementation costs and

improving the value of your Tax Dollars

• Standards based implementation (GJXDM, NIEM, SOA) resulting in long term viability of solution and easy integration at regional and national

level

• Utilizes existing agencies’ systems and infrastructure

• 2007 Excellence.Gov Award by American Council of Technology

JUSTIS ResultsContd..

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Who is CSOSA?

CSOSA is an independent federal agency

created by the National Capital Revitalization

and Self-Government Improvement Act of

1997

CSOSA has the operational responsibilities for

Probation, Parole, and Supervised

Release within the District of Columbia

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CSOSA MISSION

The mission of CSOSA is to increase public

safety, prevent crime, reduce

recidivism, and support the fair

administration of justice in close collaboration

with the community

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Case Study CSOSA Data Sharing using Web

Services

Goal

• Provide the officers in the field and the rest of the criminal

justice practitioners via JUSTIS the most up-to-date information

from CSOSA Case Management System (SMART)

Objectives

• Provide the following information / data for an offender

• Parole, Probation, and Supervised Release information

• Aliases

• Home and Employment Address

• Supervision information

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Case Study: Objectives Contd..

• Mug Shots

• Release conditions and stay away orders on different

cases

• Build one single reusable secure interface

• Provide information / data to external partners

• In near Real Time

• Encrypted / Securely

• Using XML and later upgrade it to be NIEM compliant

• Based on long term Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA)approach

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Case Study:

Solution• Develop Secure Web Services (WS) for

information sharing

• WS’s can be discovered through JUSTIS

• JUSTIS can apply necessary security,

content transformation, and content

routing services

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Case Study:

Solution Contd..

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Case Study:

Solution Contd..

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Case Study:

Security

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• WS-Security Specification• 128 bit AES Data Encryption using Symmetric key• 256 Bit Encryption of Symmetric key using Public key

of Requesting Agency• Encrypted Data and Key passed over to Requesting

Agency for Decryption• IP Restriction to CJCC Domain• Firewalls• 128 Bit SSL certificate over HTTP• Audit trail of requesting agencies users and data

access details• Error reporting• Validation Module Usage

Case Study:

Security Contd..

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Case Study:

JUSTIS Screenshot

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• Improves business process efficiency by reducing

cost and particularly time to connect applications

• Increases the feasibility of real time, remote access

to core source of information (owner-CSOSA) which

provides current information to JUSTIS

• Makes it easier to change or add partners

• Provides a fundamental platform to CSOSA to easily

integrate its SMART application functionality with

other pieces of software/system like JUSTIS

Case Study:

Benefits

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CSOSANext Steps

• Develop complementary services to automate a key

business process

• Utilize NIEM standard and map exchanges to

corresponding Information Exchange Packet

Documents (IEPD)

• Identify additional business practices and processes

for information exchange and process automation

• Deploy Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to enable

enterprise wide SOA

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JUSTIS Looking Ahead

Virginia

District of Columbia

Maryland

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Questions / Comments ?