2009-060-RES-North Texas Council of Governments

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Understandings a. This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is entered into by the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) and The City of Paris Police Department (hereinafter referred to as "contributing agency"), for the purpose of participating in the Law Enforcement Analysis Portal project (hereinafter referred to as LEAP). b. This MOU relates to participation in the LEAP data cache. Data submitted by contributing agencies is and remains the property of the contributing agencies. Access by authorized users will be controlled and analyzed through a Gateway developed by a private security company licensed in the state of Texas. The LEAP data center will be secured consistent with FBI-CJIS guidelines. c. Security of authorized users will be analyzed by a private security company licensed in the state of Texas. Their analysis will report any unusual activity to the law enforcement agency holding the subscription for that user. Follow up on this report will be the responsibility of that agency, consistent with the agency's internal policies, FBI-CJIS guidelines, Code Of Federal Regulations, Title 28--Judicial Administration, chapter I--Department of Justice, Part 20--Criminal Justice Information Systems, and Texas Government Code § 411.083. Dissemination Of Criminal History Record Information d. The LEAP project was approved by the Executive Board of NCTCOG on December 15, 2005. Subsequently, the LEAP Advisory Committee composed of eleven law enforcement executives from the NCTCOG region was approved by the Executive Board of NCTCOG on April 27, 2006. The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to review, modify and recommend for approval the Manual of Administrative and Operational Guidelines (MAOG), other documents as appropriate, and to nefinrork with the Texas Department of Public Safety Records Section for sharing of criminal Records Management System data, and any other data deemed appropriate by the parties. e. NCTCOG created LEAP as a cached repository of criminal records management system data, and other pertinent criminal justice data to be shared and analyzed among other contributing public safety agencies. NCTCOG will provide the contributing agency with technical assistance for the extraction and submission of relevant data from their automated systems to the secure LEAP Data Center if required by the contributing agency. f. The contributing agency retains sole ownership of and sole responsibility for the information it contributes, including but not limited to, the accuracy of the information. Receiving agencies will take no enforcement action with out first verifying the current status of that information with the contributing agency. g. The contributing agency will submit their law enforcement Records Management System (RMS) data, and other criminal justice data to LEAP as agreed by the NCTCOG LEAP Advisory Committee and the contributing agency. The contributing agency will follow the LEAP "MAOG" for the submission, query, crime and link analysis and all other uses of contributing agencies shared information. h. LEAP is a law enforcement officer safety, crime and link analysis, and deconfliction tool and is not an intelligence analysis tool. If an Intelligence Agency accesses LEAP for analysis, that agency shall ensure that data remains law enforcement sensitive and will not insert classified data into the LEAP Data Cache. i. Each party to this agreement agrees that it shall have no liability whatsoever for the actions and/or omissions of the other party's employees, officers, or agents, regardless of where the individual's actions and/or omissions occurred. Each party is solely responsible for the actions and/or 2 of 3