Montana FY24 NCHIP

The Montana Board of Crime Control (MBCC) will use funds to improve criminal history data systems and exchanges. The project seeks to improve Montana’s criminal record information for availability to national investigative service providers. Funds will be transferred to the Montana Department of Justice for updating replacing livescan devices pursuant to Title 5. MBCC also plans to enhance mugshot capture and transfer to display an individual’s identity history summary.  The third Montana project will involve reducing the backlog of dispositions. The last project will be a collaborative project with the Montana legislative initiative to achieve the data linkages for a shared data warehouse. The MBCC's piece of this project will be to assure the foundational data from local law enforcement is accurate, and accessible to provide the highest quality data upstream.  The NCHIP support for this project will be to assist with funding a data management support staff person for MBCC, and to obtain two software applications; one to assist with the synchronization of records received in the data warehouse from disparate data systems across the Montana criminal justice system, and the other to assist in the cataloging of data fields and components in those records.