Meeting of the Compact Council for the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact

Résumé

The purpose of this notice is to announce a meeting of the Compact Council created by the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Act of 1998 (Compact). Thus far, the federal government and 19 states are parties to the Compact which governs the exchange of criminal history records for licensing, employment, and similar purposes. The Compact also provides a legal framework for the establishment of a cooperative federal-state system to exchange such records. The United States Attorney General appointed 15 persons from federal and state agencies to serve on the Compact Council. The Council will prescribe system rules and procedures for the effective and proper operation of the Interstate Identification Index system. Matters for discussion are expected to include: (1) Noncriminal Justice Outscourcing Initiatives and the Development of a Security and Management Control Outsourcing Standard; and (2) Searching Federal Civil Fingerprint Records on Applicants in Positions of Trust; and (3) Critique on the Draft Compliance Sanctions Rule; and (4) FBI National Fingerprint File Qualification Requirements and Audit Criteria. The meeting will be open to the public on a first-come, first- s