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COPLINK® Innovates with LEXS/National Information
Exchange Model (NIEM) Compliance for Law Enforcement
Agencies Nationwide.
TUCSON, AZ- July1, 2008 ---
Knowledge Computing Corporation, with the award winning
COPLINK® Solution Suite, is successfully providing LEXS/NIEM
compliance for their law enforcement and public safety
clients nationwide.
Knowledge Computing Corp.
assisted in the development of the original NIEM-based
interface between the Automated Regional Justice
Information System (ARJIS - San Diego's Regional Law
Enforcement Consortium) and the FBI. In addition, the
Director of Engineering for Knowledge Computing
Corporation was on the LEXS3.1 SR Requirements
Committee. Now, the company is enabling two-way, NIEM-based
interfaces for COPLINK clients quickly and easily.
COPLINK users such as ARJIS and the Los Angeles
Sheriff's Department (LASD) now use this standard to
create NIEM-based interfaces, with many other agencies
expected soon to follow.
"We are excited to extend
the level of interoperability available between COPLINK
users to include OneDOJ and DHS," commented Knowledge
Computing Corporation Director of Engineering, Bill
Oliver. He added, "Participating on the LEXS
Requirements Committee was an ideal opportunity to
ensure that COPLINK is an integral part of national data
sharing now and in the future. By being involved in its
development, we are able to provide an unparalleled
level of data sharing between the many COPLINK-enabled
agencies as well as provide fulfillment of presidential
information-sharing mandates for our clients."
In the wake of 9/11,
national law enforcement underwent a wide range of
restructuring in response to less than adequate
information sharing options. The President responded to
this problem by initiating the Information Sharing
Environment (ISE), mandated by the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Now, law
enforcement and public safety communities are duty-bound
to move from a "need to know" to a "need to share"
culture. To assist with the change, NIEM was created as
a joint partnership between the Department of Justice
(DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and
is intended to facilitate information sharing between
local, tribal, state, and federal law enforcement
agencies.
With NIEM, a standard common
computer language is used, Global Justice XML Data Model
(GJXDM), to describe entities like people, places or
things. Those agencies using COPLINK are already capable
of sharing this data with one another and can now
seamlessly integrate NIEM standards into their data
systems without the need to alter any existing system.
COPLINK multi-jurisdictional information sharing does
not require NEIM compliance. However, compliance is
required for participation in information sharing
projects including: OneDOJ (formerly R-DEx), which is a
data repository managed by DOJ, and with the Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, which is a part
of DHS. These projects provide limited search and
receive capabilities to participants based on supported
data types and interagency agreements. COPLINK users are
able to search OneDOJ and ICE databases - and vice versa
- within the scope of these agreements.
Besides being the first
partner with a fully functional R-DEx interface (ARJIS),
COPLINK has a validated export mechanism in LASD sending
incident data to the National Data Exchange, also known
as N-DEx, a database managed by the FBI. Currently, N-DEx
standards do not allow third party queries of data.
Because COPLINK capabilities regarding these information
sharing projects respond to these types of standards,
jurisdictions feeding N-DEx, OneDOJ and ICE through
COPLINK, are insulated from changes that may require
system alterations.
Access to COPLINK on a
local, regional or federal level is restricted by
individual user security clearances and by the
sensitivity of the data itself, both of which are based
on strict policy protocols spelled out in a Memorandum
of Understanding between participating agencies. COPLINK
also creates a detailed audit trail for every search
conducted. These safeguards help protect the integrity
of the data and sensitive information while allowing for
the creation of ad hoc regional task forces to address
specific criminal activity.
The COPLINK Solution Suite
is able to rapidly identify possible criminal suspects,
relationships, and patterns by searching known or
partial facts from an investigation. Leads that would
otherwise be unapparent appear in seconds - a process
that prior to COPLINK was not possible or often took
days or weeks to accomplish. The Solution works by
allowing vast quantities of structured and seemingly
unrelated data - including data currently housed in
various incompatible databases and records management
systems - to be securely organized, consolidated and
rapidly analyzed over a highly secure intranet-based
platform. COPLINK is already linking counties, regions
and states, making if far more difficult for criminals,
gangs and terrorists to operate across multiple
jurisdictions undetected.
About Knowledge Computing
Corporation and COPLINK
Knowledge Computing Corp. provides technology-based
crime-fighting and information sharing solutions to
leading edge law enforcement agencies nationwide. Its
critically-acclaimed COPLINK Solution, in use since
1998, is based on knowledge management technology first
prototyped by top-ranked researchers in the Artificial
Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson
through a grant by the National Institute of Justice.
The technologies developed at Knowledge Computing
Corporation have been tested and proven by over 1600 law
enforcement agencies around the country. COPLINK
software is compliant with CFR part 23, as well as
local, state, federal and inter-agency laws and policies
governing information sharing for law enforcement
purposes. For more information:
www.knowledgecc.com or
www.coplink.com.
Any statements
made in this press release which relate to future plans,
expectations, etc., including but not limited to
statements with words like "anticipates", "expects",
"will", as well as any other similar expressions, amount
to forward -looking statements. Knowledge Computing
Corporation may decide to update these statements - as
actual results may vary - however denies any obligation
to do so. The forward-looking statements in this press
release represent Knowledge Computing Corporation's view
as of July 1, 2008, and should not be relied upon beyond
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