1. IOWA CASE STUDY:
THE USE OF STATEWIDE STANDARDS AT THE LOCAL
LEVEL
Keith Kreiman, Iowa CJIS Program Coordinator
Ken Bosier, CIO, Iowa Judicial Branch
Di Graski, National Center for State Courts
Dave Usery, CEO, URL Integration
Board President, IJIS Institute
Jim Pingel, Project Manager, URL Integration
A Presentation to the 2013 Criminal Justice System Form on Data Exchange &
Information Sharing Standards
February 6, 2013
3. Iowa CJIS
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
Signed in 2005 by Governor Vilsack and Chief
Justice Lavorato. Governor Culver renewed; to be
submitted to Governor Brandstad .
“for the purpose of establishing a governance structure to
guide the design, development and implementation of a
statewide-integrated criminal justice information system that
would enable automated information sharing in a common
format between state, local and federal criminal justice
agencies.” (my emphasis)
4. MOU: Details
• CJIS Board —The Board shall include the Governor, the
Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, the Director of the
Department of Administrative Services or his or her
designee, and the State Court Administrator. The members of
the Board shall elect a chairperson at the first meeting.
• Board Duties — The Board shall review recommendations
submitted by the Advisory Committee and set policy for the
State relating to all aspects of an integrated criminal justice
information system, including
design, development, funding, implementation, and operation.
The Board may adopt or disapprove the recommendations of
the Advisory Committee.
5. Heavy Lifting:
CJIS Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee shall be composed of the following members:
• Five representatives of the Judicial Branch appointed by the Chief Justice.
• Five representatives of the Executive Branch appointed by the Governor.
• One representative of each of the following associations: Iowa County
Attorney’s Association, Iowa State Sheriff’s and Deputies Association, Iowa
Association of Chiefs of Police and Peace Officers, Iowa League of
Cities, and Iowa State Association of County Supervisors. The leadership of
each association shall appoint the association’s representative.
• Two members of the Iowa Senate, including one Democrat and one
Republican, each to be appointed by the leadership of their respective
caucus, to serve as ex-officio members.
• Two members of the Iowa House of Representatives, including one
Democrat and one Republican, each to be appointed by the leadership of
their respective caucus, to serve as ex-officio members.
6. Representation and Authority
“Each association representative must serve
as a high level decision-maker from within
their organization with the authority to speak
for their membership and make decisions
and commitments for and on behalf of their
agency or organization.”
7. CJIS By the Numbers
• 24 Automated Data Exchanges in
Production
• 9 More Under Development
• State & Local Agencies Involved:
• 5 State Agencies
• 99 Court Clerks
• 33 County Attorneys
• 65 Law Enforcement Agencies
• Nearly 500,000 messages exchanged
through CJIS monthly
8. CJIS Information Exchanges
• ECCO-eCitations to Courts • Notice of Appeal
• Presentence Investigation • Dispositions & Payments to
Report (PSI) Polk County
• Order for PSI • Offender Release
• Protection Order • Transfer of Victim Information
• Protection Order Served • Notice of Bond Posting
• Sex Offender Address • OWI
Updates (DCI to DOC) (Complaint, MOWI, Report )
• Sex Offender Address • Registered Victim Notification
Updates (DOC to DCI) • Hearing Order
• OWI Disposition • Adult/Juvenile Data
• Mental Health Orders to Warehouses
NICS • CJJP Web-Based Queries
• DPS-ICON Queries
9. Future: System-to-System eFiling
• Complaint & Affidavit
• Court Notice
• Trial Information
• Incident Report (leveraging N-DEx to
support prosecutors’ needs for Incident
Reports)
• Consolidate Charge Table
11. Data Exchange is a Contract
• What Information is Shared? With Whom?
• How and When is the Information Sent?
• How is the Data Secured in Transit?
• How Does the Recipient Guaranteed
Delivery for the Sender?
• What Happens if a Connection is
Unavailable?
• How are Errors Corrected?
12. Service-Oriented Architecture
• Built Around the Notion of Contract
• Standards are the Contract Boilerplate!
• Capabilities
• Services
• Real-World Effects
• Response Messaging
• Acknowledgement
• Error Handling
13. State CIO Sean Vinck: “How do we
deal with information resources that
are:
• Disparate
• Disconnected
• Non-interoperable
• Duplicative
• Inconsistent
• ??????????????”
14. Enterprise Service Bus
CJIS
BUS Complaint
LEA & Affidavit
Complaint
& Affidavit
Warrant
Request
Incident
Report
DPS Hearing Court
Order
Incident Routing:
Report CA, Court, Trial
Both Information
• Intermediary
• Executes the
Information
Hearing
Order
& Affidavit
Complaint
Trial
& Affidavit
Complaint
Contract
• Scalable Exchange
• Designed to
interoperate
County disparate systems
Attorney
• Don’t rip ’n’ replace!
15. The Iowa Justice Standards Stack
Security
• Encryption
• Public Key Infrastructure
• x.509 certificates
Web Services
• Delivery
• Response Messages
• Error Messaging
NIEM
• Data Content
• Consistent Data Definitions
• Reusable Components (court case, defendant, etc.)
16. Contact Information
• Keith Kreiman • Diana Graski
• Keith.Kreiman@iowa.gov • dgraski@ncsc.org
• (515) 725-2264 • www.ncsc.org
• http://www.cjis.iowa.gov • Dave Usery
• Ken Bosier • David.Usery@urlintegration.com
• Ken.Bosier@iowacourts.gov • 303-799-4585
• (515) 725-8074 • www.urlintegration.com
• www.iowacourts.gov
