Welcome to the Criminal Justice Information NetworkGoverning Board of North Carolina
Bills Involving Criminal Justice Interests from 2021-2022 SessionNC Law Enforcement Agencies Database - Websites, Judicial, and Domestic Violence Information Click Here.To read the Budget for 2017-2018, Click Here.NCIS-LInX Memorandum of Understanding, Click Here.2018 Annual Report for the CJIN Board, Click Here.
The CJIN Board Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, February 3, 2022, but due to the COVID-19 virus concerns, the meeting will be virtual. Please stay safe and healthy. As things change and meetings reconvene, updates will be posted here on the CJIN Website!
The North Carolina Criminal Justice Information Network (CJIN) is a statewide criminal justice infrastructure that allows the sharing of information between state and local criminal justice agencies. North Carolina is recognized in the nation as one of the leading states in developing a statewide criminal justice information network. The CJIN Board recommends projects to provide more effective communications for law enforcement across the state. To view the approved Budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal years, please click here. As stated in the 2018 Annual Report to the General Assembly, the CJIN Board has successfully implemented a number of projects, including mobile voice and data, fingerprinting, and court and juvenile justice applications, along with access to federal databases. The CJIN Board is comprised of the most knowledgeable cross-section of criminal justice professionals assembled in North Carolina and possesses a proven track record of success. Because most statewide projects cross over the jurisdictional boundaries between the Judicial and Executive branches, the membership of the CJIN Board is well represented by both sides and has a history of success in working together. Information on those initiatives can be found under the tabs below. CJIN Initiatives
INFORMATION SHARING![]() The Criminal Justice Information Network Governing Board is dedicated to helping solve the challenge of information sharing in North Carolina. Numerous cities, counties and municipalities have shared with the Board the solution being used in their region or area. We also have solutions from other states and Federal agencies. Each of these solutions is linked within this site along with contact information for each of the agencies - agency contact information is provided with every project. One of those projects was the Body Worn Camera from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department along with a presentation on the CMPD Real Time Crime Center. To see the presentation to the CJIN Board on the Body Worn Cameras, please click here. The CMPD also provided thier Directive or Policy regarding their Body Worn Camera, which can be found here. For the Real Time Crime Center presenation please click here. Any agency that is willing to share the details of their projects can contact the CJIN Staff for either posting the information or providing the Board with a presentation or both. The following is a sample list of information sharing projects: Pre-Trial Release, NCIS-LInX, CJLEADS, Advanced Authentication, Inmate Medical, Next Generation ID, NC GangNet, Criminal Property Information, Property Appraiser Information, DMV Facial Recognition & Operations, Charlotte Regional Information Sharing System, NCAWARE, e-Citation, Discovery Automation, Clerk Automation, ect. Details of these projects are located here. LInX Carolinas![]() The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) launched the Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX) initiative in 2003. LInX was designed to enhance information sharing between local, state, and federal law enforcement in areas of strategic importance to the Department of the Navy; since 2003, LInX has become strategically important to the United States Army and the United States Air Force. Criminal Property Information
There have been some lengthy discussions by the CJIN Board regarding the issues surrounding property information that has been identified in a criminal incident. The Board has addressed both enterprise and local solutions for data warehousing of property information; including potential changes to the State Statutes to include the majority of secondhand dealers, scrap metal, precious metals, etc. Some of these solutions include changes to city and county ordinances. The CJIN Board was presented a state enterprise solution by the Maryland State Police; Maryland’s Regional Automated Property Information Database (RAPID), Enterprise Solution, Brian Stephen Gill, First Sergeant, Adam Joseph Stachurski, Captain, and Scott Robert Lantz, Compliance Officer, Maryland State Police, Jack Gee, President, Business Watch International, Bob Moseley, LInX Project Coordinator, National Capital Region. RAPID is a nationally recognized enterprise solution that was implemented by Maryland and is expanding to Virginia and Delaware. RAPID is very beneficial to the law enforcement community because it is interconnected to the NCIS-LInX System; RAPID provides LInX with a daily extract of all property records from secondhand dealers in the three aforementioned states. This is a major step towards single single-on; Property Information Interface to LInX, Bob Moseley, LInX Coordinator, Montgomery County, Chief Frank Palombo, Program Manager, LInX Carolinas, NCIS, Mitch Cunningham, Deputy Chief, Wilmington PD The Board has been addressing local solutions from within North Carolina; changes to city and county ordinances, along with vendor solutions and in-house solutions. One of the best and most comprehensive solutions was implemented by Douglasville Police Department and presented to the Board by Detective Mac Abercrombie and Chief Chris Womack, please click here for a YouTube Presentation. All of the above presentations, ordinances, statutes, along with the previous presentations are available for your review, please click here. e-Court Automation![]()
Forsyth County Clerk of Courts office has developed a system by which individuals can go online for information that can save them a trip to the Courthouse. The presentation to the CJIN Board includes that offenses that can be taken care of online via documentation that can be sent in electronically. To see the entire presentation, please click here. The Administrative Office of the Courts CIO, Jeff Marecic gave a presenation to the CJIN Board on the Vision for the AOC. This included priorities for the Department as well as strategies moving forward. That presentation can be viewed here. The North Carolina DNA Database (§ 15A-266.3A) requires defendants arrested for certain felony offenses to provide DNA samples at arrest rather than waiting for conviction. These samples are collected by local Law Enforcement while fingerprinting defendants at arrest. These samples are forwarded to the SBI to be analyzed and added to the DNA Database. They are then to be used to identify guilty parties as well as exonerate the innocent. If the defendant is later found not guilty, or pleads guilty to a misdemeanor not covered by this statute then the SBI is directed to destroy the sample. (Unless other grounds exist to allow them to keep the sample: i.e. the defendant’s DNA was taken pursuant to a previous felony conviction); 15A-266(3A) requires that in cases where the defendant has been found not guilty, case dismissed or never charged the Defendant shall have his DNA sample expunged from the DNA Database. The statute directs that that the local District Attorney notify the SBI when the DNA should be expunged from the Database. At the March 29, 2012 CJIN Board meeting a resolution was unanimously passed, recommending an alternative process for handling expunction, please click here for more information about DNA expunction. Discovery Automation Process for District Attorneys was highlighted along with the benefits to the users, as well as some of the features that the system offers. There were numerous screen shots of the system in action to allow for a more detailed understanding of the look and feel of the system. A timeline was provided for the various releases of the system and a chart of the constituents that are served by the system. To see the DAS Fact Sheet click here. The NCAWARE system provides an automated, web-based statewide warrant repository to maintain and track criminal processes and offender information. NCAWARE electronically interfacing to the Local Law Enforcement RMS, a nightly download is now available to all law enforcement that will download into their specific Record Management System; AOC has also deployed a Magistrate Video Project that you can read more about and view the presentation here. For more information on NCAWARE please visit http://www.nccourts.org/news/NCAWAREfacts.asp. The Administrative Office of the Courts is working with the CJIN Board to try and determine the most efficient way to automate the Clerk of Court Process that includes: The Clerks of Superior Court act as the hub of court system including serving a judge of probate. The following list of responsibilities and accountabilities was provided by one of our CJIN Board members, the Honorable Mike McArthur, the list was developed by the Honorable Rachel Joyner, Nash County Clerk of Superior Court: Accounting Department, Domestic Violence, Enforcement of Child Support Orders, Child Support Court, Superior Civil, District Civil, Small Claims – District, Superior Criminal, District Criminal, Issues all Court Process, Magistrates, Jury Pool System, Arbitrates disputes between Board of Education and Board of County Commissioners, Nominates for appointment to Resident Superior Court Judge, Magistrates, Public Administrator, $3 million invested of minors’ funds, Collected over $11 million – 1995, Special proceedings and CSC hearings, Land Sales – Land Division, Sets Attorney Fees, Change of Name Proceedings, Appoints administrators, executors, coordinators, receivers, Appoints court commissioners and jury commissioners, Settlement of boundary line and Cartway Disputes, Foreclosures, attachments, claims, and delivery hearings, Adoption Hearings, Petitions to Open Adoptions, Special Proceedings Confidential (involuntary commitment), Estates of deceased persons, minors, and incompetents, Audits accounts of fiduciaries, Administers estates less than $5,000, and Removal of fiduciaries – contempt power. Pre-Trial Release
To read more information about Pre-Trial Release and to see presentations by Detective John Guard and Sgt. Dan Miglin along with a Memo from AOC regarding Pre-Trial Release, please click here.
Body Worn Camera and Video
CJLEADS![]() CJLEADS 2 is Actively Being Deployed!
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is required for the new CJLEADS version. Since we are requiring MFA, we are providing this second-factor of identity management at no cost to the agency, just as the CJLEADS application has been available for use at no cost to the agency. The CJLEADS administrators in each agency are to be designated as MFA Delegated Administrators (DA) for their agency. We will work very closely with you as a CJLEADS admin to ensure you have the necessary documentation you need to properly equip your users on MFA. CJLEADS Administrators should ensure their users will have uninterrupted access to CJLEADS by moving forward, and notifying their users of the procedures for onboarding to MFA and CJLEADS 2. We know that CJLEADS is a valuable tool and we will continue strive to keep the tool relevant and expand capabilities. Please contact us at cjleadshelp@nc.gov or call 919-754-6950 for information or visit our webpage.
NCAWARE![]() The NCAWARE system provides an automated, web-based statewide warrant repository to maintain and track criminal processes and offender information. NCAWARE electronically interfacing to the Local Law Enforcement RMS, a nightly download is now available to all law enforcement that will download into their specific Record Management System; AOC has also deployed a Magistrate Video Project that you can read more about and view the presentation here. For more information on NCAWARE please visit http://www.nccourts.org/news/NCAWAREfacts.asp.
Jail Administration - Pitt County Detention Center
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Clerk of the Court Automation![]() The Administrative Office of the Courts is working with the CJIN Board to try and determine the most efficient way to automate the Clerk of Court Process that includes: The Clerks of Superior Court act as the hub of court system including serving a judge of probate. The following list of responsibilities and accountabilities was provided by one of our CJIN Board members, the Honorable Mike McArthur, the list was developed by the Honorable Rachel Joyner, Nash County Clerk of Superior Court: Accounting Department, Domestic Violence, Enforcement of Child Support Orders, Child Support Court, Superior Civil, District Civil, Small Claims – District, Superior Criminal, District Criminal, Issues all Court Process, Magistrates, Jury Pool System, Arbitrates disputes between Board of Education and Board of County Commissioners, Nominates for appointment to Resident Superior Court Judge, Magistrates, Public Administrator, $3 million invested of minors’ funds, Collected over $11 million – 1995, Special proceedings and CSC hearings, Land Sales – Land Division, Sets Attorney Fees, Change of Name Proceedings, Appoints administrators, executors, coordinators, receivers, Appoints court commissioners and jury commissioners, Settlement of boundary line and Cartway Disputes, Foreclosures, attachments, claims, and delivery hearings, Adoption Hearings, Petitions to Open Adoptions, Special Proceedings Confidential (involuntary commitment), Estates of deceased persons, minors, and incompetents, Audits accounts of fiduciaries, Administers estates less than $5,000, and Removal of fiduciaries – contempt power. |