Report Title:

Criminal Justice; HPD

 

Description:

Appropriates one dollar to the city and county of Honolulu for the Honolulu police department to act as the state control terminal agency for the national crime information center and the national law enforcement telecommunications system.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1182

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that there is a critical need to provide continuing access to nationwide criminal justice information systems for all criminal justice agencies in Hawaii. This need is evidenced by the growth in the number of agencies that access this information as well as the increase in the number of computer transactions generated by Hawaii's criminal justice agencies over the past ten years.

In each state, a law enforcement agency is designated as the control terminal agency ("CTA"), or coordinating agency, for the national crime information center ("NCIC") and the national law enforcement telecommunications system ("NLETS") systems. The Honolulu police department has acted as the Hawaii CTA for both systems for over fifteen years. It is accepted throughout the country that it is a state responsibility to provide the services of NCIC and NLETS to each state's criminal justice agencies. In fact, Hawaii is the only state in which a local or non-state level agency acts as the CTA.

Although the Honolulu police department has borne the costs associated with the responsibilities of the CTA to date, several issues have arisen over the past several years that makes this arrangement impossible to continue. Increases in the number of criminal justice agencies and their employees who utilize these systems have drastically increased the workload associated with the training, testing and auditing that must be completed by the CTA. Travel costs associated with this increased workload have also escalated. The estimated administrative costs to the Honolulu police department for both the NCIC and NLETS systems is $45,000.

In addition, the NCIC system is being completely redesigned to take advantage of technological advances in the electronic transmission of text and image data. The new system is called NCIC 2000, and became available in July, 1999. Each state must redesign their state system and interface to the new NCIC 2000 system by June 30, 2002, at which time the current NCIC system will cease to exist.

The Honolulu police department has recently contracted with a vendor to develop the Hawaii NCIC 2000 system, at a cost of $1,928,000. The annual hardware and software maintenance cost of the system is $205,000. Together with the $45,000 per year administrative costs, the total annual cost to the Honolulu police department for both the NCIC and NLETS systems is $250,000.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for the Honolulu police department to commence its role as the state control terminal agency for the State.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the city and county of Honolulu for the purpose of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.