Resolution
In Support of National Law Enforcement Data Exchange (N-DEx)
Enacted: Dec 2010
WHEREAS, the United States (U.S.) law enforcement community as a whole has
articulated the need for a methodology and system to collect and share incident,
arrest, booking, and other justice information necessary to help correlate
suspects with crimes, increase the potential for improving case clearance rates,
and other purposes of the justice system; and
WHEREAS, N-DEx envisions the ability to share complete, accurate, timely and
useful information across jurisdictional boundaries to law enforcement and
community corrections, and;
WHEREAS, N-DEx is a criminal justice information sharing system that provides
nationwide connectivity to disparate local, state, tribal, and federal systems
for the exchange of information, and;
WHEREAS, ownership of data shared through N-DEx remains with the agency that
provided it and N-DEx supplies controls to allow agencies to decide what data to
share, who can access it, and under what circumstances, and;
WHEREAS, all information listed through N-DEx must be confirmed by the source
before it can be acted on, and;
WHEREAS, information available through N-DEx will provide essential information
to pretrial, probation and parole officers in their investigations of
individuals for release, sentencing and supervision decisions, and;
WHEREAS, future iterations of N-DEx will incorporate the full criminal justice
community with an ultimate goal of transforming all criminal justice data into
knowledge for the entire justice community, and;
WHEREAS, the International Association of Chiefs of Police Criminal Justice
Information Systems (CJIS) Committee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Criminal Justice Information System Advisory Policy Board (APB) Information
Sharing Subcommittee, and the Global Justice Criminal Intelligence Coordinating
Council(CICC) as well as many other organizations have all approved and promoted
the use of the N-DEx Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD) as the
national standard for the sharing incident, arrest, booking, and other justice
information;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the American Probation and Parole Association
supports full implementation of N-DEx with all state, tribal and federal
community corrections entities to fully establish information sharing with
privacy safeguards across all authorized law enforcement agencies and suggests
that these agencies implement internal measures to ensure that the quality of
data collected and stored in their internal records management systems, and
ultimately shared through the N-DEx IEPD, represents the most complete and
accurate information possible.
N-DEx (Law Enforcement National Data Exchange) brings together data from law
enforcement agencies throughout the United States, including incident and case
reports, booking and incarceration data, and parole/probation information. N-DEx
detects relationships between people, vehicles/property, location, and/or crime
characteristics. It “connects the dots” between data that is not seemingly
related. And it supports multi-jurisdictional task forces—enhancing national
information sharing, links between regional and state systems, and virtual
regional information sharing.