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The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) plans to subgrant funds to the New York State Department of Health/Health Research Incorporated to develop a secure data quality management portal.

The portal will be used to perform the following tasks:

1) Monitor data quality, identify the root causes of data issues and work collaboratively with facilities such as, NYS Office of Mental Health and DCJS to resolve them;

2) Enhance NICS reporting platform to collect, update, and store NICS data from hospitals more efficiently and ensure compliance with federal and state security policies and standards;

3) Improve support for the automation of NICS reporting from hospitals to greatly increase speed of reporting, improve efficiency and data quality, decrease long-term costs, and reduce burden of manual reporting for hospitals;

4) Continue to perform audit and compliance activities;

5) Continue to serve as a point of contact for FBI NICS outreach; and

6) Provide training and end-user support to the hospitals so that they may have continuity in and understand their responsibility for NICS reporting activities.

New York State Division Of Criminal Justice Services

THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES GRANTS TO ASSIST STATES, STATE COURT SYSTEMS AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS IN UPDATING THE FBI'S NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM (NICS) WITH CERTAIN MENTAL HEALTH, PROTECTION AND RESTRAINING ORDER, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CONVICTION, AND OTHER CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION WHICH MAY DISQUALIFY INDIVIDUALS FROM PURCHASING OR POSSESSING FIREARMS. BJS COORDINATES ITS WORK ON THE NICS PROGRAM WITH THE EFFORTS OF THE NATIONAL CRIMINAL HISTORY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (NCHIP) TO ENSURE THAT FUNDED STATE AND STATE COURT SYSTEM PROGRAMS ARE COMPLEMENTARY AND CONSISTENT WITH THE OVERALL GOAL OF IMPROVING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AND TIMELINESS OF STATE AND NATIONAL CRIMINAL RECORDS.

16.813 - NICS Act Record Improvement Program

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) [DOJ - OJP]

Albany, New York 12210 United States

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BJS FY24 NICS Act Record Improvement Program NARIP (O-BJS-2024-172138)