SEARCH—The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics - OUR HISTORYOUR FOCUS OUR NATIONAL ROLE

Over several years, and with b) Develop, promote, and advocate continued LEAA funding, SEARCH successfully constitutionally balanced and effective law demonstrated the interstate exchange of criminal and policy governing the use and history data via computerization—transmitting management of justice information, systems, criminal fingerprints through “an experimental and technologies; and satellit. [...] SEARCH and live-scan devices, and worked with agencies to has played a fundamental role in crafting legislation; plan and implement their Computerized Criminal developing regulations, policies, and auditing and History (CCH) and AFIS systems. [...] SEARCH Members played a related to criminal history records use and crucial role in developing the National Crime management, firearms-related background checks, Prevention and Privacy Compact, which governs data quality improvement and disposition reporting noncriminal justice use of the III, and have provided strategies, and biennial surveys of state criminal enduring leadership on the Compact C. [...] SEARCH has also played critical roles in conducted research to assess the impact and creating and supporting the III, the National Crime business value of integrated justice information Information Center (NCIC) 2000, the National Instant sharing, to analyze incident-based crime reporting, Criminal Background Check System (NICS), and the and to explore the extraordinary research potential National. [...] decision-makers and funding agencies on behalf of our Members and their agencies and WHO BENEFITS? jurisdictions; SEARCH Members and their offices benefit directly c) Organize and host biannual Membership from these services and collective insight, as do Group meetings to share common peers and partners in the justice information sharing experiences, discuss universal challenges and community, dec.