REPORT TITLE:
Criminal Justice Information


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to the Honolulu police department for the
management of the National Crime Information Center system and
the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.

 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR
   COSTS TO BE INCURRED SERVING AS THE STATE OF HAWAII CONTROL
   TERMINAL AGENCY FOR THE NATIONWIDE CRIMINAL JUSTICE
   INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND TO IMPLEMENT THE NEW NCIC 2000
   SYSTEM.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that there is a critical
 
 2 need to provide continuing access to nationwide criminal justice
 
 3 information systems for all criminal justice agencies in Hawaii.
 
 4 This need is evidenced by the growth in the number of agencies
 
 5 that access this information as well as the increase in the
 
 6 number of computer transactions generated by Hawaii's criminal
 
 7 justice agencies over the past ten years.
 
 8      In each state, a law enforcement agency is designated as the
 
 9 Control Terminal Agency (CTA), or coordinating agency, for the
 
10 National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and National Law
 
11 Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) systems.  The
 
12 Honolulu police department has acted as the Hawaii CTA for both
 
13 systems for over fifteen years.  It is accepted throughout the
 
14 country that it is a state responsibility to provide the services
 
15 of NCIC and NLETS to each state's criminal justice agencies.  In
 
16 fact, Hawaii is the only state in which a local or non-state
 
17 level agency acts as the CTA.
 
18      Although the Honolulu police department has borne the costs
 

 
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 1 associated with the responsibilities of the CTA to date, several
 
 2 issues have arisen over the past several years that make this
 
 3 arrangement impossible to continue.  Increases in the number of
 
 4 criminal justice agencies and their employees who utilize these
 
 5 systems have drastically increased the workload associated with
 
 6 the training, testing and auditing that must be completed by the
 
 7 CTA.  Travel costs associated with this increased workload have
 
 8 also escalated.  The estimated annual cost to the Honolulu police
 
 9 department associated with the management of the NCIC and NLETS
 
10 systems is $80,000.
 
11      In addition, the NCIC system is being completely redesigned
 
12 to take advantage of technological advancements in the electronic
 
13 transmission of text and image data.  The new system, called NCIC
 
14 2000, is scheduled to become operational in 1999.  Shortly
 
15 thereafter, all states must be able to interface with the new
 
16 system, as the current NCIC system will cease to exist.
 
17      The Honolulu police department hired a consultant to help in
 
18 the planning for the NCIC 2000 system.  They identified a key
 
19 component, called a "communications gatekeeper", which is
 
20 required to interface Hawaii with the new system.  The estimated
 
21 cost of this gatekeeper is $220,000.
 
22      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
23 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $300,000, or so much
 

 
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 1 thereof as may be necessary for each fiscal year, beginning
 
 2 fiscal year 1999-2000, for the Honolulu police department to act
 
 3 as the state Control Terminal Agency for the State of Hawaii.
 
 4      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 5 city and county of Honolulu for the purpose of this Act.
 
 6      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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 8                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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