Arizona Judiciary FY 2024 NCHIPSF

Under this award, the Arizona Supreme Court proposes to implement the Statewide Juvenile Prohibited Possessor Case Management Project. The purpose of the project is to provide juvenile prohibited possessor records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and to allow NICS agents to query the system 24/7 to perform the needed investigation into the purchase of a gun by a person under 21 years of age. The Arizona Supreme Court plans to achieve this purpose by replacing the existing aging juvenile probation case management systems with a more robust, modernized, and integrated system. This updated statewide system will, among other things, enable the Arizona Judicial Branch to transmit juvenile records to NICS, thus providing an efficient and effective means of identifying ineligible firearm purchasers on a statewide basis. Expected outcomes include the development and rollout of a new cloud-based case management system to be used by all juvenile probation departments, which will provide support for a mobile workforce with internet-based portals to interact with the client base, along with managerial analytics; the improvement of electronic transmittal of juvenile records to state and the national NICS system.  All 15 of Arizona’s juvenile probation departments, with over 1,400 users statewide, are the intended beneficiaries of the project.