Joint Automated Booking System

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The Joint Automated Booking System (JABS) is a communications network operated by various federal agencies in the United States for the rapid exchange of data on prisoners in their custody. Is supervised by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) standing, broad system introduced allows automatic access to the automated fingerprint identification system of the FBI (Integrated Automated Fingerprint Information System, IAFIS). In addition, images of people in custody by the federal authorities are also managed on JABS. In August 2010 that was around 3.7 million people. JABS itself, and thus fingerprints , photos and descriptions of a person in the database, can be accessed via the FBI's Law Enforcement Online network.

aims

The arrest of a person by the representative of a federal agency such as the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), etc., requires the fingerprinting procedures of the person concerned. If this is then transferred to the USMS, it is often treated again there for identification purposes and then again when it is transferred to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

These redundant procedures prompted the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in 1993 to investigate possible solutions. JABS should reduce the effort and cost of these repetitive activities by giving all different authorities access to central data pools. Access to the SENTRY system of the BOP, the Firebird Booking System (FBS) of the DEA, the fingerprint system IAFIS and the Interim Distributed Imaging System (IDIS) of the FBI, the ENFORCE case tracking and booking system of the Immigration and Naturalization Service should be enabled (INS), the Prisoner Tracking System (PTS) and the Warrant Information Network (WIN) of the US Marshals Service.

Development of the system

In February 1996, a pilot project with eight offices in southern Florida went active. The pilot project, completed in 1999, showed that the departments could exchange their data, that fingerprints could also be transmitted electronically to the FBI, and that the time required could be reduced considerably.

In 1999, under the impression of this success, the ministry decided to introduce it across the board in all affected federal agencies. By the end of November 2004, 840 and thus approx. 77% of the originally required departments had been equipped with JABS.

The chosen client-server architecture showed problems in this area. In 2004 the DOJ therefore commissioned the small software company, Software Performance Systems Inc., (SPS), which specializes in browser solutions, to develop a browser-based solution. SPS developed a three-layer architecture consisting of a web-based user interface (presentation layer ), business logic and database level . Updates only had to be carried out on the server and the rollout could be implemented through access from the Internet .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carole A. Lane (2002) Naked in Cyberspace: How to Find Personal Information Online ; ISBN 9780910965507 ; Page 226.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Audit Report 05-22 May 2005 of the auditing organization of the US Department of Justice; accessed on October 12, 2014.
  3. ↑ JABS on the United States Marshals Service website; accessed on October 12, 2014.
  4. ^ Judgment of John D. Bates, United States District Court of the District of Columbia; David and Kay Sieverdings vs. United States Department of Justice , Civil Action No. 11-1032 (JDB) on March 12, 2012; Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Law Enforcement National Data Exchange - N-DEx  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in an August 2010 publication by the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division; Retrieved November 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ijis.org  
  6. ↑ Law Enforcement Online (LEO) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , SAIC's LEO provides a communications mechanism to link all levels of law enforcement in all parts of the United States ; Product description on the website of the manufacturer of LEO, accessed on October 12, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leidos.com
  7. ↑ Handover of documents to the National Archives and Records Administration for the JABS project ; Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b c d e Presentation of the Joint Automated Booking System (JABS) on the website of Software Performance Systems, Inc., in La Plata, Maryland; Retrieved October 20, 2014.