Resources

NSI Overview Materials

NSI Overview

Provides an overview of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative.

ISE-SAR Functional Standard

Builds upon, consolidates, and standardizes nationwide aspects of those ISE-relevant activities already occurring at the federal, state, and local levels with respect to the processing, sharing, and use of suspicious activity information.

Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Protections: A Key Component of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI)

Provides an overview of the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections which serve as a foundational element of the NSI and which are required to participate.

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT®) Program Terrorism Incident Database Overview

Provides an overview of the SLATT database, which allows users to track terrorism trends, identify areas of high activity, and match terrorism pre-incident indicators against similar cases, both past and present.

NSI Training Overview

Provides a description of the NSI training strategy and the three separate but coordinated training initiatives targeted towards law enforcement professionals with varying duties and responsibilities―agency executives, analytic/investigative personnel, and line officers.

Suspicious Activity Reporting Process Implementation Checklist

Provides a simplified checklist for chief executives and senior leadership to implement a SAR process within their agencies.

Final Report: Information Sharing Environment (ISE)—Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Evaluation Environment

Provides lessons learned, best practices, and implementation steps identified during the ISE-SAR Evaluation Environment that can be utilized while implementing the NSI.

Policy Resources

Suspicious Activity Reporting Process Implementation Checklist

Provides a simplified checklist for chief executives and senior leadership to implement a SAR process within their agencies.

Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative Concept of Operations

Provides a common understanding of the NSI process so that implementation activities can be planned, executed, and measured.

Final Report: Information Sharing Environment (ISE)—Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Evaluation Environment

Provides lessons learned, best practices, and implementation steps identified during the ISE-SAR Evaluation Environment that can be utilized while implementing the NSI.

Findings and Recommendations of the SAR Support and Implementation Project

This report and its recommendations are important for establishing national guidelines that will improve the identification and reporting of suspicious activity and will allow for the timely sharing of SAR information with law enforcement agencies, fusion centers, and the Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs).

National Strategy for Information Sharing

Sets forth a national plan to build upon progress and establish a more integrated information sharing capability.

Technology Resources

ISE-SAR Functional Standard

Builds upon, consolidates, and standardizes nationwide aspects of those ISE-relevant activities already occurring at the federal, state, and local levels with respect to the processing, sharing, and use of suspicious activity information.

ISE Enterprise Architecture Framework

This document laid the foundation in defining practices and methodologies required to build implementable and executable information sharing enterprise architectures and to segment architectures leveraging core ISE principles.

National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)

NIEM is designed to develop, disseminate, and support enterprise-wide information exchange standards and processes that can enable jurisdictions to effectively share critical information in emergency situations, as well as support the day-to-day operations of agencies throughout the nation.

Privacy Resources

Fact Sheet: Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Analysis and Recommendations Report for the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI)

This fact sheet provides a brief background on the NSI and a description of the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties framework. It also lists highlights and observations and details recommendations for NSI implementation.

Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Protections: A Key Component of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI)

Provides an overview of the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections which serve as a foundational element of the NSI and which are required to participate.

Fact Sheet: Enhancing the Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Framework for State and Major Urban Area Fusion Centers

Summarizes privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties requirements and processes for fusion centers, including information on the new privacy requirements outlined in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Fiscal Year 2010 Homeland Security Grant Program Guidance and Application Kit and the technical assistance services, templates, and training available through the joint DHS/DOJ Fusion Process Technical Assistance Program and Services.

Initial Privacy and Civil Liberties Analysis

The overarching purpose of this analysis—as with all activities conducted in protecting the nation from terrorism—is to help ensure that those carrying out the activities contemplated by these plans do so in a manner that fully protects the legal rights of all United States persons, including information privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

Other Resources

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT®) Program

The SLATT Program provides law enforcement personnel with specialized training and resources to combat terrorism and extremist criminal activity. A username and password are required to access the SLATT Web site. To request a username and password, please complete the Web site registration form.

Communities Against Terrorism

Through the Communities Against Terrorism program, law enforcement agencies develop partnerships with their local business community to educate them on how to recognize terrorism/extremism warning signs and how to share the information with the right organization in order to prevent terrorism. To assist law enforcement agencies with their outreach efforts, various brochures are available for download on the SLATT Web site. To request a username and password for the SLATT Web site, please complete the Web site registration form.