Call to Action and Issue Brief: Justice System Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs—Addressing the Nation’s Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Epidemic

Focusing on states’ prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), this resource provides useful guidance to justice practitioners and policymakers, along with practical tools such as the PDMP best-practices checklist, a compendium of resources and references (including BJA’s Law Enforcement Naloxone Toolkit and Web site), and recommended next steps for addressing this critical public safety and public health challenge. Details and Download

Five in 5

The Criminal intelligence Coordinating Council’s (CICC) Five in 5 is a snapshot of law enforcement and criminal intelligence-related articles, resources, and research that may be of interest to CICC members and partners working to improve the nation’s ability to develop and share criminal intelligence. Read the Latest Edition

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Grantee Guidelines for Global Standards Package Compliance

To promote increased interoperability among justice information sharing systems, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has started issuing guidance relative to the use of the Global Standards Package. Continue to the Global Standards Package

Video Evidence: A Law Enforcement Guide to Resources and Best Practices

Designed for chiefs, sheriffs, and line officers to provide answers to straightforward questions they may have regarding properly securing, collecting, storing, and analyzing video, as well as to provide sources for training. Details and Download

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Pennsylvania Justice Network and Cumberland County Laboratory Information Management System Web Service Project

In Cumberland County, law enforcement and forensic laboratories have merged their recordkeeping systems, eliminating a duplication of efforts and thus, decreasing the wait time for results of forensic testing.

In 2014, the Pennsylvania Justice Network received a $250,000 grant from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program to improve justice information sharing. This award was in conjunction with a $480,000 Paul Coverdell National Forensic Science Improvement award. With funding from these awards, officials developed a new laboratory management system, leveraged existing Web services, and improved the sharing of information about blood evidence between the county’s forensics lab and criminal justice agency partners.

This project is in support of the long-standing efforts by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to improve information sharing and automate data exchanges within the criminal justice system.

Source: BJA
NIST Finalizes Cyberattack Recovery Guidance

Preventing all cyberattacks is a good, but unrealistic, goal. That’s why preparing for recovery from a cyber incident can be just as important as prevention, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The agency’s Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery provides a single resource to help organizations develop strategies to contain an opponent and restore operations quickly.

Source: GCN
BJA Funding Opportunities

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has recently released a number of funding opportunities for law enforcement and criminal justice agencies, ranging from preventing and reducing intellectual property theft and related crime, to assisting agencies, to supporting agencies in employing data-driven, cross-sector strategies to reduce crime, increase trust, and improve community safety. Funding opportunities include: The Smart Policing Initiative, The Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program, The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program, The Byrne Criminal Justice Innovations Program. A complete listing of BJA’s open solicitations can be found at https://www.bja.gov.  

Source: BJA
Critical Infrastructure Threat Information Sharing Framework: A Reference Guide for the Critical Infrastructure Community

How are threats to critical infrastructure shared in real-time? Who is responsible for sharing threat information? To address these questions and to build a basic framework, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) has released the Critical Infrastructure Threat Information Sharing Framework: A Reference Guide for the Critical Infrastructure Community, a resource for critical infrastructure owners and operators, as well as other private sector, federal, and state, local, tribal, and territorial government partners that share or need access to threat information.

Source: PM-ISE
Report on Law Enforcement Use of UAS

The Police Foundation has released new recommendations for local law enforcement agencies considering the use of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) for public safety purposes. Community Policing & Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Guidelines to Enhance Community Trust provides guidance on all aspects of UAS use in public safety, including operational, training, and legal and regulatory compliance considerations. 

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