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  • Public Safety

IJIS Cloud Computing Primer for Judges

In the past few years, the court system has had an explosion of interest in cloud computing. Across
the nation, court Information Technology (IT) managers are wrestling with policy challenges – should
they move IT services to the cloud, and if so, which services, when, and how?

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Pre-RFP Toolkit

The toolkit is a practical guide to pre-procurement readiness. The toolkit includes many original works, as well as tools and templates contributed by and borrowed …

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Security, Privacy, and Compliance in the Cloud White Paper

The cloud can provide tremendous benefits for criminal justice agencies, but they often face opposing
viewpoints that the cloud is either too risky to manage criminal justice information or that leveraging
the cloud will require no work on their part. Neither statement is true and well-established operational
and technical strategies have been developed for cloud-based solution implementations that fully
comply with the stringent requirements for the security and privacy of criminal justice information.

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Opportunities for Information Sharing to Enhance Health and Public Safety Outcomes

Information sharing between the criminal justice and healthcare communities has the potential to enhance both public safety and health outcomes by reducing redundancies, enhancing continuity of care, and generating efficiencies in both domains.

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Celebrating 20 Years of the IJIS Institute

Building Bridges Between Industry and Government: The IJIS Institute’s leading efforts to support and expand information sharing over the past two decades has enabled the evolution of justice communications technology in the field, as the demand for more and more data fostered growth and adoption of advanced mobile communications technology.

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Post Covid-19: Successes, Challenges & Next Steps

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented and rapidly shifting challenges to business, government, and our daily lives. Throughout this event, however, organizations and individuals have continually risen to meet these challenges, innovating and adopting new technologies in ways and at a pace never before imagined. By leveraging technology, reevaluating long-established business processes, and expanding inter-agency and public-private sector cooperation, the criminal justice, homeland security, and public safety domains have not only continued to operate, but realized long-term, structural improvements in efficiency, outcomes, and customer satisfaction.

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RMS Standard Functional Specifications Document

The IJIS Institute is pleased to announce the publication a critical publication entitled Standard Functional Specifications for Law Enforcement Records Management Systems, Version III. This significant accomplishment was the effort of the RMS Standards Task Force, a joint group formed by the IJIS Institute’s Law Enforcement Advisory Committee (LEAC) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Committee.

The guidelines have been produced to support agency policy development, request for proposal development, law enforcement training development and delivery, and an overall general understanding of what should be included as part of a records management system.

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Technology Adoption Roadmap for Success

The IJIS Institute’s Technology and Architecture Committee (ITAC) is chartered with providing information to industry and practitioners regarding technologies, architectures, and standards that enable the successful adoption of technology in order to better meet their operational missions. Technology adoption is a discipline that crosses the criminal justice (Law Enforcement, Corrections, Courts), homeland security and public safety (Fire, EMS, Emergency Management) domains. The ITAC has developed this position paper on technology adoption for the benefit of our practitioners in these specific domains.

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Cloud Fundamentals

A law enforcement agency’s computing infrastructure is designed to support various operating conditions. However, major disasters and events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, major winter storms, or even hosting the Super Bowl, can strain computing infrastructure past its breaking point. This was even more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic when many public safety agencies quickly adopted cloud solutions to sustain their operations, often earlier than they may have previously planned. Adopting new cloud solutions will continue past the COVID-19 pandemic, so agencies must clearly understand their capabilities and limitations. This paper describes the basics of cloud computing and the role that the cloud can play in public

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