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Title: Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2018
Authors: Becki R. Goggins and Dennis A. DeBacco
Publication date: November 5, 2020
Award number: 2015-RU-BX-K001 and 2019-RU-BX-K001
This report presents a snapshot of criminal-history record systems and how cases were tracked through to disposition across the United States and its territories as of year-end 2018. From May 2019 to July 2019, SEARCH surveyed the administrators of criminal-history record repositories in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This marks the fifteenth Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems that SEARCH has conducted since 1989. Caution should be used when comparing trends between surveys because shifts in a jurisdiction?s fiscal priorities or technological capabilities over time may skew the status of its criminal-history records.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics funded this third-party report. It is not a BJS report and does not release official government statistics. Any analysis, conclusions, or opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views, opinions, or policies of the Bureau of Justice Statistics or the U.S. Department of Justice.
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.
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