Search Group Incorporated

“The members consist of one representative of each state, the district of columbia, the commonwealth of puerto rico and the u.s. Virgin islands, and eight individuals appointed by the chairperson, known as at-large members.”

“Members each get one vote and elect the board of directors.”

“No committees have the authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“The filing of the form 990 is operational so it is reviewed by the director of operations and the executive director, not by the organization's governing body.”

“The board of directors completes a mid-year performance review and an annual performance appraisal. In terms of the methods the board of directors uses to establish the compensation of the organization's ceo/executive director, the following processes are used: the full board of directors reviews and decides on the compensation, rather than a compensation committee, though the board does now have a committee on executive director performance, compensation, and succession planning. That committee was appointed on december 1, 2022. The committee reviews the compensation of other, comparable positions through examination of the 990 forms of the organizations, as well as other factors. The board does not have a written employment contract with the ceo/executive director. The board looks at a variety of factors (as noted above) in completing their assessment of compensation. The board approves the compensation.”

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“Search's information sharing program (isp) helps state, local, and tribal criminal justice and public safety agencies and organizations develop, operate, secure, and improve information sharing within and between jurisdictions. This assistance is provided through consulting services and other resources in the areas of information sharing systems design and development, technology procurement, implementation, and interoperability. Isp performs three core services: 1) technical assistance (consulting) and training focusing on technology assessments, business process analysis, strategic planning, information sharing planning and governance, and automation requirements for criminal justice data sharing initiatives, 2) participation in developing and promoting national information standards through research and publications (including developing and implementing automated information sharing solutions that conform to national standards and best practices); and, 3) support for communications interoperability and firstnet. 1.technical assistance isp offers comprehensive technical assistance covering various areas, such as establishing information sharing governance structures, developing strategic plans, assessing technical and operational capabilities, evaluating readiness for information sharing, aiding in rfp development, and designing solutions aligned with national standards and best practices. During the reporting period, isp staff assisted the virginia state police in reviewing technical requirements for an rfp aimed at replacing key components of their criminal justice information systems, such as the computerized criminal history (cch) system, automated fingerprint identification system (afis), and state message switch. 2. Research and publications supporting national criminal justice standards and information sharing isp staff participated in meetings and conference calls throughout the year serving on multiple national criminal justice standards-setting and advisory bodies. Isp supported three research studies related to the analysis of criminal history data and one research study related to recidivism. Isp worked on three publications to support data dashboard development by law enforcement agencies. Specifically, search partnered with the police executive research forum (perf) and the office of community oriented policing services (cops office) on a project to help law enforcement take advantage of critical incident data through the development of information dashboards. The goal of the dashboard project was to produce three complementary guides to help departments use data to improve police operations and community relations: one guide provides the reasons dashboards are important, the second guide focuses on functional requirements for dashboards and the third guide focuses on technical requirements for building and sustaining them. Isp worked with several states and local law enforcement agencies to evaluate data quality for the national criminal incident reporting system. 3. Communications interoperability isp staff continued to support national efforts to promote communications interoperability through participation in the firstnet public safety advisory committee (psac) and safecom emergency response council (erc).”

“Search's cybercrime and digital forensics consists of a team of experts who provide technical assistance and training to local, state, and federal justice public safety agencies nationwide. Through training classes, technical workshops, and hand-on assistance, search trains and assists investigators in methods to prevent, detect and investigate the rising tide of computer crime, also referred to as e-crime, cybercrime or high-tech crime. These crimes include fraud, email threats, online stalking, identity theft, phishing, drug trafficking, cyber terrorism and child exploitation. During fy22/23, search cdf staff- 1. Trained more than 4,000 law enforcement professionals in classroom and conference workshop settings throughout the nation. The topics included: online investigations: tools, tips and techniques; core skills for the investigation of mobile devices; windows forensic environment for on-scene triage; human trafficking: using the internet to investigate your case; mobile devices: what evidence is available to corroborate your case; searching social media sites for evidence, and more. Staff also presented at several national or regional high-tech crime conferences. To ensure that students receive the most up-to-date information and techniques, search staff continuously updates course curricula to include the most recent information and innovations in the field. Staff also maintains the equipment in multiple mobile training laboratories, to ensure that students are working with the latest software and hardware available. 2. Responded to over 650 requests for technical assistance from law enforcement throughout the nation. This assistance included identifying the legal contact for various internet service providers (isp), helping extract data from mobile devices, capturing digital evidence from webpages, and advising on digital evidence triage. 3. Produces resources to assist law enforcement personnel with investigations involving digital evidence. This included: a. Distributing more that 11,000 publications to law enforcement agencies across the nation. B. Providing access to online training to more than 100 law enforcement professionals. C. Maintaining the search investigative and forensic toolbar, which provides law enforcement professionals with quick links to a vast network of resources regarding technology-facilitated crime. D. Through search's on-line learning portal (solp), search has continued to provide access to its pre-recorded and live webinar series.”

“National criminal history improvement technical assistance program search's law and policy (l&p) program provides technical assistance to states and federal entities under the national criminal history improvement program (nchip) to enhance and improve criminal history systems and related records. Direct onsite and in-house technical assistance includes supporting states, local jurisdictions, and tribes in: 1) improving the accuracy and completeness of criminal history records to support both criminal justice and noncriminal justice purposes; 2) implementing multiagency and multijurisdictional information exchanges to improve criminal records and to support tactical and strategic decision-making; 3) expanding and enhancing analytical capabilities using existing records management systems and other administrative data sets; and 4) increasing the number of qualifying records submitted to the national instant criminal background check system (nics) index. Computerized criminal history (cch) analytics toolset search has developed a computerized criminal history cch analytics toolset which is designed to assist cch repository personnel improve day-to-day operations by: 1) detecting data submission anomalies from contributing agencies to identify potential connectivity problems and data quality issues; 2) allowing cch staff to analyze trends such as changes in volume for reported arrests and dispositions by reporting agencies and the amount of elapsed time between arrests and dispositions; and 3) improving the ability to create stakeholder reports for contributing agencies, funding entities, media and the public. Search continues to expand the number of states participating in its cch data analytics work, and search is currently working with data from connecticut, michigan, maine and washington. The datasets are being used to identify key information available from the states that can be used to identify and assess areas that can improved - either through changes to existing policies, processes, or a combination of both - to make more accurate, timely and complete data available for criminal and noncriminal justice purposes such as employment, licensing, and firearms background checks. Virginia state police rap back implementation search assisted virginia state police in implementation planning for participation in the fbi's rap back program. Fbi rap back allows authorized criminal justice users to enroll persons under supervision (i.e., probationers and parolees) into a notification service that lets probation and parole officers know if one of their clients is re-arrested, subject to an arrest warrant or named as a defendant in a new criminal case. Rap back also allows public-sector employers to enroll employees into a subscription service that provides automatic notifications if an individual has a subsequent arrest, warrant or criminal conviction. Louisiana integrated criminal justice information systems (icjis) policy board search began working with the louisiana icjis policy board to create a corrective action plan to allow the state to improve court dispositions reported to the state criminal history repository and to maximize the number of records the state makes available for firearms background checks via the national instant criminal background check (nics) program. Alaska department of public safety audit search conducted an informal audit of the alaska department of public safety (dps) division of statewide services (sws) criminal records and identification bureau (bureau) to provide an assessment of how well the dps is complying with reporting of arrest and disposition information as required by alaska statutes. The purpose of the audit was to ensure compliance with applicable laws and procedures for maintaining accurate, complete, and timely information within the state criminal history repository and related operations. Additionally, search was tasked with recommending strategies to assist alaska's dps and contributi”

“Consultant & contract servcies: program service expenses 705,208. Management and general expenses 85,387. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 790,595. Payroll processing fee: program service expenses 28,446. Management and general expenses 3,444. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 31,890.”