Privacy Guidelines for Justice Information Systems

The Justice Information Privacy Guideline grew out of a collaboration between the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA), the Office of the Ontario Privacy Commissioner and United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs who met with the goal of developing a series of documents for state, local, and tribal use in planning, developing, implementing, and testing privacy policy in justice information systems.

The goal of the Guideline is to provide assistance to justice leaders and practitioners who seek to balance public safety, public access, and privacy when developing privacy policies for their agencies’ systems, whether already operating or being planned and whether independent of or integrated with those of other agencies.  Providing insights on difficult issues faced by justice leaders in developing privacy policy, the Guideline was prepared through a national and international collaboration of nearly 100 state, local and tribal justice leaders, as well as academia, elected officials, the media and the commercial sector.

Click here to view the Justice Information Privacy Guidelines.