Tennessee FY24 SJSP

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), the Tennessee Statistical Analysis Center (TN SAC) seeks to ensure that it maintains the capacity to review and verify the quality of all data being collected and maintained so that those reporting data and the products produced from the data are accurate, current, and useful to all statewide constituents; and ensures the on-going quality of data being reported to NIBRS. Funds are being requested to conduct a 24-month core-capacity building project to improve the timeliness and quality of data reported to the TIBRS and the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and provide high quality data analysis and reporting for the state of TN through implementation of the next phase for developing a new automated “machine-to-machine” communication workflow for secure and rapid delivery of state crime data so that crime records, validation results, and required amendments are automatically synchronized across systems (submitting agency record management systems- RMS), State Crime Insight repository, and FBI NIBRS). This phase will particularly focus on modifying the TBI’s TnCOP system to allow for inbound webservice and adding the addition of a zero-report option for the more than three hundred smaller reporting entities throughout Tennessee. As a result, the TN SAC anticipates that (a) time spent by personnel to manually upload of data sets between crime data systems will be eliminated; (b) agencies will be able to resolve errors quickly while what occurred during the incident is still fresh on the mind of persons involved; and (c) the quality and timeliness of TN data available for publications, research, and public consumption via the public or TOPS websites will be improved.