FY 2022 South Carolina NCHIP

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is requesting to continue specific positions funded under previous NCHIP awards, continue a contract with a vendor to scan fingerprint cards into the AFIS to maintain an accurate criminal history repository, purchasing of Batchscan workstations for AFIS, and procure and implementation for the NIEM XML Conversion. These efforts will continue to improve disposition reporting, overall accuracy, quality, timeliness, and immediate accessibility of South Carolina’s criminal history and related records. South Carolina already makes available all dispositions within the state’s criminal history system (unless the record is sealed). However, 38% of records available to national systems are missing dispositions. To address this, a large portion of this proposal is to increase the number of dispositions available to the state’s criminal history system thereby making them available nationally as well. SLED will also use NCHIP funded personnel to prepare fingerprint cards for the hard card conversion.  Over 83,000 cards were organized and logged for vendor processing and uploading to the AFIS and CCH repositories in 2021 and with continued funding, SLED will surpass this amount in 2022. In doing so, information that is not currently available to III and NICS will be made available through the automation of records. SLED will also utilize NCHIP funded personnel to educate law enforcement agencies and courts on the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Protection Order File and Wanted Persons File. Additionally, funds will be used to implement the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact.