Integrating Information Systems

INTRODUCTION

“Any member of the justice community can access the information they need to do their job, at the time they need it, in a form that is useful, regardless of the location of the data.” This is the vision that the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Advisory Committee (GAC) an advisory body to the U.S. attorney general, the assistant U.S. attorney general, and the U.S. Office of Justice Programs that was created to promote issues related to the exchange of justice information described in the report “A Framework for Justice Information Sharing: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).” Since that report, there have been a number of follow-up articles and practical initiatives that have attempted to further define and implement the principles and tenets that it champions. Technology vendors and service providers alike have responded to this need to share information across jurisdictions and are offering solutions for real-time information access regardless of the source or technology associated with that information. These solutions are developed around