Assistance program
Regional Information Sharing Systems
$278.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.610
- What it does
- Goals: The goal is to assist agencies in reducing violent crime and support law enforcement through officer safety, enhance the ability to identify, target, and remove criminal conspiracies and activities spanning multi-jurisdictional, multi-state, and sometime international boundaries. Objectives: While the RISS Centers operate independently and are tailored to support the unique needs of the region served, they also operate as a collective body to address national criminal justice issues. RISS is governed by a National Policy Group comprised of the six RISS Directors and the Chair of each regional center’s board of directors. The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), administers the RISS Program. The primary objective for RISS is to promote and strengthen relationships and strategies for the administration of justice with law enforcement agencies, organizations, prosecutors, and defenders through innovative leadership and programs. This objective also includes providing training, technical assistance, and resources in support of the program’s goals. Performance Measure 1: Percentage of conflicts identified from RISSafe; Performance Measure 2: Number of inquiries to the RISS hosted databases; Performance Measure 3: Number of participants who successfully completed the training; and, Performance Measure 4: Number of publications developed and disseminated.
- Who benefits
- State and local criminal justice agencies; Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies and personnel benefit from this program.
- Who applies
- Six RISS Centers are authorized as eligible to receive funding to provide services to law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. The Centers are: The Middle Atlantic Great-Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Center (MAGLOCLEN), the Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center (MOCIC), the New England State Police Information Network (NESPIN), the Regional Organized Crime Information Center (ROCIC), the Rocky Mountain Information Network (RMIN), and the Western States Information Network (WSIN). Additionally, a competitively selected entity will serve as the administrator of network and support system capabilities serving the aforementioned six RISS Centers.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 116-6; 34 U.S.C. § 10321; Statute 133, p. 13, 117
- Public Law 117-328; Statute 136, p. 4459, 4537
- Program site
- http://www.NW3C.org ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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