Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2024, $2,069,386)
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) will use funds to continue to maintain current Other Personnel Services and overtime staff to assist across various sections in FDLE’s Crime Information Bureau. This support may include researching missing felony and misdemeanor domestic violence arrest events, contacting arrest and booking agencies to obtain fingerprint cards, entering the arrest records into the state repository, performing data analysis for quality assurance, supporting fingerprint analysts by digitizing microfilm fingerprint records, scanning and entering fingerprint records not currently available in the state’s Biometric Identification System (BIS), manually entering court dispositions into the criminal history file, entering data supporting requests for the sealing or expunging of criminal history records, and scanning source documents for permanent storage and retrieval. FDLE also requests grant funds to continue the retention of contractors and consultant programming resources to address criminal history programmatic tasks for CCH and to assist in the processing of data received from Florida’s Clerks of Court. This will enhance and improve the availability of automated data to criminal justice and non-criminal justice agencies.