National Data Exchange (N-DEx) Submitted by: CJIS Committee CJIS.015.a09 WHEREAS, the United States (U.S.) law enforcement community as a whole has articulated the need for a methodology and system to collect and share incident, arrest, booking, and other justice information necessary to help correlate suspects with crimes, increase the potential for improving case clearance rates, and other purposes of the justice system; and WHEREAS, the culmination of this need has been the development of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) program by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Division; and WHEREAS, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) recognizes that the FBI CJIS Division has developed the N-DEx Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD), in collaboration with state and local agencies, to serve as a standard means for contributing data to the N-DEx Program; and WHEREAS, the IACP Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Committee, the FBI CJIS Division Acquisition Policy Board (APB) Information Sharing Subcommittee, and the Global Justice Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council(CICC) have all approved and promoted the use of the N-DEx IEPD as the national standard for the sharing incident, arrest, booking, and other justice information. Then be it hereby RESOLVED That the IACP, duly assembled at its 116th annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, recommends that all U.S. state, county, municipal, and tribal law enforcement agencies adopt and use the N-DEx IEPD as the standard for in-state and national incident, arrest, booking, and other justice data sharing. And be it FURTHER RESOLVED The IACP recommends that the FBI CJIS Division implement a formal process for use by all U.S. law enforcement agencies for proposing changes to the N-DEx IEPD, based on individual state needs. And be it FURTHER RESOLVED The IACP recommends that all U.S. state, county, municipal, and tribal law enforcement agencies implement internal measures to ensure that the quality of data collected and stored in their internal records management systems, and ultimately shared through the N-DEx IEPD, represents the most complete and accurate information possible.