ACJIC Products

The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center operates a state-of-the-art data center 24-hours a day, and provides many information systems through the state criminal justice network (CJnet) and the Internet.

Our information systems process more than 18 million transactions per month, and are accessed by more than 14,000 sworn officers in over 850 criminal justice entities within Alabama and across our nation. ACJIC is connected nationally to the FBI's National Crime Information Center, as well as to all 50 states via the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (Nlets).

Some of the products providing access to information systems provided by, or administered through, ACJIC include:

ABC (Alabama Background Check System) the official State of Alabama criminal history records check site. Administered by ACJIC, the system allows employers to subscribe to run online searches of Alabama criminal records of employees and prospective employees who provide them with the "right to know" waiver authorizing the search. This ACJIC system is provided in cooperation with the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts and the Alabama Department of Public Safety. Find out more at http://background.alabama.gov or through the Online Services page of Alabama's official government website, www.alabama.gov.

ADVANCE (Alabama Dashboards for Visualization, Analysis and Coordinated Enforcement) The Alabama Dashboard for Visualation, Analysis and Coordinated Enforcement (ADVANCE) is a product for approved law enforcement agency CEO's in which they may - in a quick visual dashboard - review statistical data from their own agency's interactions within the MOVE (Mobile Officer's Virtual Environment) mobile interface. Through this secure access, these CEOs and officers within their department whom they approve, may view statistics on vital programs such as e-Cite, e-Crash, ULTRA, eWeight, and LETSgo. The CEOs may search their own agency's interactions in these programs by citation category, time of day/week, day of the week/month, route, USDOT#, vechicle type, week of the year, gender, citation charge/section/type, HazMat Involvement, etc.

AlaCOP (Alabama Communications and Operations Portal) the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center's (ACJIC) secure web portal for authorized law enforcement and criminal justice officers. This state-specific site is administered and maintained under the authority of ACJIC and shares data from state information systems. one page brief

AlaSafe.gov, an Alabama-specific government website maintained and administered under the authority of ACJIC. This site provides family members of Alabamians with Alzheimer's Disease or dementia with a secure mechanism to provide critical information to law enforcement in anticipation of a potential event where they wander or become lost and are not be able to provide identifying information.

ARMS (Alabama Resource Management Systems), a dashboard viewer designed to provide a common location for local, state, and national demographics and statistical information. Using easy-to-use tools such as graphs, maps, and reports, ARMS can help state and law enforcement agencies, and local leaders, quickly locate and analyze state and national data needed to better plan, evaluate, and implement individual community needs. The system is managed and administered by ACJIC. http://www.arms.alabama.gov

CCH (Computerized Criminal History System), an online database of criminal offender information available to qualified criminal justice agencies. CCH provides complete, statewide "rap sheets" on offenders, as well as a rapid flow of criminal offender information that aids criminal justice officials in making more realistic decisions with respect to bail, sentencing, probation, and parole. Alabama is an Interstate Identification Index (III) and Felon Identification in Firearms Sales (FIFS) participant.

CONNECT a consortium of state criminal justice information sharing organizations dedicated to working closely together to better solve specific information-sharing challenges facing the criminal justice community by leveraging the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (GLOBAL) standards. AJIC represents the State of Alabama on the Consortium. Currently, ACJIC Director Maury Mitchell serves as the national Chairman of the CONNECT Consortium. http://www.connectconsortium.org

III (Interstate Identifier Index), the Federal Bureau of Investigation's criminal history records in a database. III records are established when a fingerprint card is provided to the FBI from the contributing criminal justice agency, and this record is then included in the FBI's automated index of persons with criminal records.

INTERPOL, an international organization whose mission is to facilitate the exchange of police information and promote cooperation and assistance between law enforcement authorities among 188 member countries. The U.S. Department of Justice is the United States point of contact. ACJIC interacts with INTERPOL via Nlets. http://www.justice.gov/usncb/

JIMS (Jail Information Management System), a secure jail booking and management information system developed by ACJIC, is offered to any county or municipal jail at low cost. This system facilitates real-time sharing of inmate information between county jails and the Alabama Department of Corrections. The interface is an application based upon the MOVE platform.

LETS (Law Enforcement Tactical System), a private, Alabama-specific information system which shares vital information maintained by state agencies, including Alabama driver license, boat registration, corrections, pardon and parole, sex offender, and automobile tag registrations with authorized Alabama criminal justice agencies. one page brief

LEDS (Law Enforcement Data System), a collection of in-state databases of criminal justice information available to qualified criminal justice agencies throughout this state and the nation as a whole.

MOVE (Mobile Officer's Virtual Environment), a mobile interface developed for Alabama law enforcement officers allowing secure access to vital programs such as e-Citation, e-Crash, ULTRA, and LETSgo.

NCIC (National Crime Information Center), a nationwide system administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in which law enforcement agencies may access information on stolen, missing, or recovered guns; stolen articles; wanted or missing persons; stolen or wanted vehicles; stolen license plates; stolen securities; convicted sexual offenders; violent gang and terrorist organizations; and computerized criminal history records.

NCIC Mobile allows law enforcement agencies to securely access and query the NCIC Database (An FBI Criminal Justice Information Systems) via laptop computers. Licensed by ACJIC, NCIC Mobile requires the use of a unique Advanced Authentication Card by each authorized user. Law Enforcement agencies utilizing NCIC Mobile are required to maintain an official record of all Advanced Authentication Cards and the authorized users to whom they are assigned, and to take all reasonable precautions to protect against unauthorized access to the cards. The NCIC Client mobile application is built within the MOVE and ADAPT ecosystem. This grant-funded project is sponsored by the Recovery Act grant.

Nlets (the International Justice & Public Safety Information Sharing Network), an international, computer-based message switching system and communications network which connects criminal justice agencies in the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada on a 24-hour-a-day basis.

OffenderWATCH the sex offender registration, management, and community notification system, is provided to Alabama's county Sheriffs' offices through the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center.

POLICYMAKER.ALABAMA.GOV (Alabama Policymaker's Dashboard), a public website developed by ACJIC to provide specific demographic and criminal justice information about the districts of Alabama's elected officials. The dashboard includes data about the population within a district and statistics on the violent crime which has occurred there for the past several years. www.policymaker.alabama.gov.

PUSH (Private Utility Security HSRM), the Alabama-specific secure web portal which provides private sector security personnel with current homeland security information relative to their particular sector of the economy. one page brief

QUICK ACCESS a visitor verification and validation system developed by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center designed to check and monitor visitors entering and exiting their criminal justice facilities (including jails). The system also is being developed for schools to check and monitor visitors, and to check the State of Alabama Sex Offender Registry to alert school officials if a sex offender attempts entry.

SHARE (Secure Homeland Access and Reporting Environment), the Alabama-specific secure web portal system developed by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center to allow Alabama homeland security and law enforcement agencies to integrate and coordinate tips, communicate leads, and share investigative information. one page brief

SNAP (Secure NCIC Access Portal), ACJIC's innovative client software allowing law enforcement agencies to access the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) via the internet for entry or non-entry purposes. SNAP NCIC access is available to law enforcement agencies currently using MESSENGER which do not interface to a third-party vendor for CAD, Records Management, or Mobile Data Terminals.

UCR (Uniform Crime Reporting), a city, county, and state law enforcement program which provides a nationwide view of crime based on the submission of crime data by law enforcement agencies throughout the country. Specifically, the UCR program collects information on Part I offenses reported to law enforcement including:

• Murder and Non-negligent Manslaughter
• Forcible Rape
• Robbery
• Aggravated Assault
• Burglary
• Larceny-Theft
• Motor Vehicle Theft
• Arson

ULTRA 2.0 (UCR Local Template for Reporting and Analysis), a custom web-based application developed by ACJIC which uses the MOVE framework allowing law enforcement agencies to submit reports to ACJIC, the state UCR repository.

VAS3 (Virtual Alabama School Safety System), a secure school-safety information system funded by the Alabama Department of Homeland Security, the Alabama Department of Education, the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, and the Auburn University Montgomery Center for Government.

VIRTUAL ALABAMA The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) now provides technical operations to support the Alabama Department of Homeland Security (DHS) VIRTUAL ALABAMA project. VIRTUAL ALABAMA is a powerful 3D visualization mapping system that transforms massive amounts of data into a geospatial context, allowing Alabama’s local and state officials, including first responders, law enforcement and other critical government operations, to easily understand and analyze location-based information.

ACJIC programs

ACJIC Vendor Certification Program

Effective January 2007, all vendors seeking to provide software for use by criminal justice agencies within the State of Alabama to access the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), via the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC), must be approved through the ACJIC Vendor Certification Program. ACJIC is the FBI-CJIS Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) System Agency for the State of Alabama.

Please contact ACJIC's Information Technology Division by calling 334.517.2500 for more information on ACJIC's Vendor Certification Program.