Department of Criminal Justice Information Services
Web Site:
www.mass.gov\cjis
Mission:
The mission of the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services (DCJIS) is to enhance public safety through information exchange. DCJIS carries out this duty by providing timely and accurate criminal justice information and services to authorized law enforcement and non-criminal justice agencies and individuals in support of promoting the public safety and security of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The DCJIS recognizes and preserves the separate mission, priorities, constitutional objectives, governing laws, and rules and regulations of the participating agencies responsible for criminal justice administration within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The DCJIS innovatively and collaboratively works to integrate, to the most reasonable extent possible, the functionality and interoperability of criminal justice information systems, focuses on enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and accuracy of our criminal justice information, promotes enterprise information technology architecture for an integrated criminal justice information sharing environment, and collaborates with stakeholders to develop, establish, and maintain a governance structure.
Governing Laws:
Statutes
Regulations
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