Mississippi FY24 NCHIPSF

Under this award, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MDPS), the parent agency of the Mississippi Criminal Information Center (MCIC) requests funds to maintain and improve its existing criminal history system. MDPS plans to contract with Computer Projects of Illinois, Inc. (CPI) to upgrade the state message switch to meet FBI mandated NIEM compliant transaction format standards. CPI will provide NIEM stylesheets along with message key transformation of all the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) keys and apply them to all inbound and outbound NCIC messages. Additionally, MDPS will contract with Meris to create a bulk scanning process to reduce the paper backlog and increase the operator processing time. This project will assist staff in the areas of scanning dispositions, expunction, and background checks.