80 FR 52796 - Offender Monitoring Analytics Market Survey

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of Justice Programs

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 169 (September 1, 2015)

Page Range		52796-52798
FR Document		2015-21564

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is soliciting information in support of the upcoming National Criminal Justice Technology Research, Test, and Evaluation Center (NIJ RT&E Center) ``Market Survey of Offender Monitoring Analytics (OMA) Technologies.'' This market survey, which will address offender monitoring in community settings, will be published by NIJ to assist agencies in their assessment of relevant information prior to making purchasing decisions on commercially-available systems being marketed for use by criminal justice professionals. The NIJ RT&E Center also invites comments with regard to the market survey itself, including which categories of information are appropriate for comparison, as well as promotional material (e.g., slick sheets) and print-quality images in electronic format.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1693]


Offender Monitoring Analytics Market Survey

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, Justice.

ACTION: Notice of request for information.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is soliciting 
information in support of the upcoming National Criminal Justice 
Technology Research, Test, and Evaluation Center (NIJ RT&E Center) 
``Market Survey of Offender Monitoring Analytics (OMA) Technologies.'' 
This market survey, which will address offender monitoring in community 
settings, will be published by NIJ to assist agencies in their 
assessment of relevant information prior to making purchasing decisions 
on commercially-available systems being marketed for use by criminal 
justice professionals. The NIJ RT&E Center also invites comments with 
regard to the market survey itself, including which categories of 
information are appropriate for comparison, as well as promotional 
material (e.g., slick sheets) and print-quality images in electronic 
format.

DATES: Responses to this request will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. 
Eastern Daylight Time on September 25, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Responses to this request may be submitted electronically in 
the body of or as an attachment to an email sent to 
[email protected] with the recommended subject line ``OMA 
Federal Register Response''. Questions and responses may also be sent 
by mail (please allow additional time for processing) to the following 
address: National Criminal Justice Technology Research, Test and 
Evaluation Center, ATTN: OMA Federal Register Response, Johns Hopkins 
University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Mail 
Stop 17-N444, Laurel, MD 20723-6099.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more information on this request, 
please contact Hal Heaton (NIJ RT&E Center) by telephone at 443-778-
5025 or [email protected]. For more information on the NIJ 
RT&E Center, visit http://nij.gov/funding/awards/Pages/award-detail.aspx?award=2013-MU-CX-K111 and view the description or contact 
Jack Harne (NIJ) by telephone at 202-616-2911 or at 
[email protected]. Please note that these are not toll-free 
telephone numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Information Sought: The NIJ RT&E Center seeks input to its upcoming 
``Market Survey of Offender Monitoring Analytics (OMA) Technologies,'' 
which seeks to identify commercially-available products being marketed 
to the offender monitoring community to facilitate the discovery and 
communication of meaningful patterns in diverse data that address their 
strategic and tactical information needs. OMA products may (but aren't 
necessarily restricted to) use various combinations of statistical 
analysis procedures, data and text mining, and predictive modeling to 
proactively analyze information on community-released offenders to 
discover hidden relationships and patterns in their behaviors and to 
predict future outcomes. They may feature dashboards (i.e., user-
interfaces) that provide easily understandable information in either 
real-time or off-line to a wide variety of professionals, which are 
customizable to permit command staff, Probation and Parole Officers 
(PPOs), crime analysts, and officers on the street to view all content

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permitted by their roles, permissions and information technology 
devices.
    Usage: This market survey will be published by NIJ to assist 
agencies in their assessment of relevant information prior to making 
purchasing decisions. Whether an agency faces a mandate to monitor the 
habits of offenders released into the community, institute proactive 
policing by performing crime-scene correlation, or to more effectively 
allocate resources based on real-time planning, OMA technologies can 
provide cost-effective tools for quickly extracting actionable 
knowledge from the plethora of available data.
    Information Categories: The NIJ RT&E Center invites comments with 
regard to the market survey, including which categories of information 
are appropriate for comparison, as well as promotional material and 
print-quality images (e.g., of analytical graphics and associated 
dashboards) in electronic format.
    At a minimum, the Center intends to include the following 
categories of information for each OMA model, service, or product:

1. Vendor Information:
    a. Name
    b. Address of corporate office
    c. Years your company has been in the OMA business
2. Product Information:
    a. Product name and version number
    b. Purpose of the OMA product
    c. Intended market (e.g., community corrections, crime-scene 
correlation)
    d. Method for accessing product (e.g., purchase, lease, vendor-
hosted)
    e. Installation options (e.g., stand-alone package or networkable)
    f. Time required to install the software on compatible computers
    g. Supporting (i.e., tethered) software packages required to 
implement/use the OMA product (including their version numbers)
    h. Licenses required to use the product and/or tethered software
    i. Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for the base product, 
including licenses
    j. Cost of any tethered software, including licenses
    k. Terms and cost of any standard and extended warranties offered
    l. Software version-upgrade approach (e.g., expected release 
frequency, cost)
    m. Approach and cost to customers for post-procurement technical 
assistance
3. Performance Characteristics and Validation:
    a. Criminal justice (or other) requirements the product was 
developed to address
    b. How the tool adds value to and differs from other commercial 
products
    c. Whether the product offers configurable levels of Administrative 
Privileges
    d. Approach for evaluating whether the product meets user needs 
(e.g., repeat customers, interviews, satisfaction surveys)
    e. Whether and how product performance has been verified and 
validated
    f. Examples of the OMA product's impact on users
4. Analyses Performed by the Product (minimum Y/N; additional detail 
welcomed):
    a. Geospatial analysis of offender habits;
     Track individual offenders
     Track groups of offenders
     Offender stop-analysis and drill-down capabilities
     Offender association monitoring/congregation analyses
     Entity-resolution
     Identify patterns of activity
     Visually differentiate client data points obtained on 
different days
     Victim monitoring
    b. Geo-contextualization of offender habits on commercially-
available maps and/or archived imagery (Identify compatible mapping and 
imagery products);
     Perform geocoding and reverse geocoding
     Provide both aerial and street views of local and regional 
scenes
     Overlay points-of-interest on maps/imagery (e.g., offender 
residences, public transportation types/routes, schools, parks and 
other landmarks)
     Conduct geographic profiling
     Heat maps
    c. Social Network Analysis
    d. Automated crime-scene correlation with offender space-time 
habits;
     Requires separate analysis of the data acquired from each 
jurisdiction
     Requires separate analysis of the habits of each offender
     Encompasses multiple jurisdictions over defined space-time 
windows and all offenders monitored by a PPO
     User specification of time and distance thresholds for 
analyzing events
     Ability to hover over map points-of-interest to obtain 
more information
     Identification of possible travel routes following 
commission of a crime
     Automatic creation (and updating) of offender watch lists
    e. Case-load management planning by PPOs;
     Definition of curfews (i.e., confinement and restriction 
zones)
    [rtarr8] Creation of global zones
    [rtarr8] Creation of free-form zones
    [rtarr8] Configuration of zones as circles, rectangles or arbitrary 
polygons
    [rtarr8] Customization of monitoring parameters to individual 
offenders
    [rtarr8] Application of established zones to more than one client
    [rtarr8] Creation of zone templates for certain classes of 
participants
    [rtarr8] Implementation of mobile restriction zones
    [rtarr8] Setting of warm zones around hot zones
     Review of tracking points and approval of acceptable 
behavior
     Automated configuration of logged events as alerts when 
appropriate, and implementation of event escalation procedures
    f. Basic predictive modeling (e.g., spatial regression analysis);
     Prediction of offender behavioral trends
     Prediction of good candidates for community monitoring
     Next-event forecasting based on linked crime-incident 
locations
     Computation of statistical significance of spatial-
temporal crime repetition probabilities (e.g., using Monte Carlo 
simulation techniques)
     The location of a serial offender anchor point(s)
    g. Additional capabilities not covered above (please list)
5. Data Formatting and Information Exchange:
    a. Method for entering/accessing/exchanging data (e.g., manual, 
created using other applications (list them), Web Services, other);
     Data sharing protocols adopted (e.g., NIEM)
     Acceptable data-input file formats (e.g., ASCII files, 
.csv text files, .shp, .dbf, .bmp, other)
     Number of data-streams that can be concurrently monitored
     Ability/need to create a new database that aggregates the 
acquired data, and if so, the data-basing approach (e.g., relational, 
semantic)
    b. Type and purpose of any databases supplied with the analytics 
software
    c. Additional databases that must be accessed to operate the 
software
    d. Known issues germane to easily integrating the software with 
existing criminal justice information systems and technology
    e. Analytic products provided by the

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OMA software in real-time, as well as those that require post-
processing;
     Underlying statistical approach used to produce product 
(e.g., cluster analysis, autocorrelation analysis, others)
    f. Ability/need to export output files to other applications for 
further analyses
    g. Output file formats produced by the analytics software (e.g., 
.kml, .shp, .csv)
    h. Method for maintaining cyber-security of the data and analysis 
products
    i. Method for protecting confidentiality of personally-identifiable 
information
    j. Types of available reports and the extent to which they are 
customizable
    k. Standard dashboard configurations provided by the product
6. Requirements for Host Agency Computing Systems:
    a. Computer operating systems capable of running the product
    b. Minimum amount of RAM (GB), hard disk space (GB), and speed 
(MHz) required to install and run the OMA product on each type of 
operating system
    c. Minimum graphics board (e.g., must support OpenGL 1.0) and 
display (e.g., size, resolution, color levels) requirements for each 
type of operating system
    d. Approximate amount of time taken to provide the principal 
analysis products on computers configured to meet these minimum 
requirements
    e. Whether the product must be used with a particular vendor's 
offender monitoring technology or is vendor-agnostic
7. Operator/Analyst Training Requirements:
    a. Minimum education level/experience needed to set-up and operate 
the software (e.g., high-school level knowledge of computers; college-
level statistics to create required input files and select appropriate 
options)
    b. Minimum education/experience needed to interpret the output 
results
    c. Number of training hours necessary to set-up/operate the product
    d. Types of available documentation and training aids (e.g., 
embedded help files, accessible help desk, user manuals, on-line 
instruction videos, screen shots; sample data; training classes)
    e. Support programs the user must be familiar with to use the tool.

    Dated: August 21, 2015.
Nancy Rodriguez,
Director, National Institute of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2015-21564 Filed 8-31-15; 8:45 am]
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products; and the level of competition No. 90–5–1–1–2883/1. All comments market survey itself, including which
among the Domestic Like Product must be submitted no later than thirty categories of information are
produced in the United States, Subject (30) days after the publication date of appropriate for comparison, as well as
Merchandise produced in the Subject this notice. Comments may be promotional material (e.g., slick sheets)
Country, and such merchandise from submitted either by email or by mail: and print-quality images in electronic
other countries. format.
(13) (Optional) A statement of To submit Send them to: DATES: Responses to this request will be
whether you agree with the above comments:
accepted through 11:59 p.m. Eastern
definitions of the Domestic Like Product Daylight Time on September 25, 2015.
By e-mail ...... pubcomment-ees.enrd@
and Domestic Industry; if you disagree usdoj.gov. ADDRESSES: Responses to this request
with either or both of these definitions, By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, may be submitted electronically in the
please explain why and provide U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. body of or as an attachment to an email
alternative definitions. Box 7611, Washington, DC sent to administrator@nijrtecenter.org
Authority: This proceeding is being 20044–7611.
with the recommended subject line
conducted under authority of Title VII of the ‘‘OMA Federal Register Response’’.
Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published During the public comment period, Questions and responses may also be
pursuant to § 207.61 of the Commission’s the consent decree may be examined sent by mail (please allow additional
rules. and downloaded at this Justice time for processing) to the following
By order of the Commission. Department Web site: http:// address: National Criminal Justice
Issued: August 21, 2015. www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. Technology Research, Test and
We will provide a paper copy of the Evaluation Center, ATTN: OMA Federal
Lisa R. Barton,
consent decree upon written request Register Response, Johns Hopkins
Secretary to the Commission.
and payment of reproduction costs. Mail University Applied Physics Laboratory,
[FR Doc. 2015–21219 Filed 8–31–15; 8:45 am] your request and to: Consent Decree 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Mail Stop
BILLING CODE 7020–02–P Library, U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 17–N444, Laurel, MD 20723–6099.
7611, Washington, DC 20044–7611.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
Please enclose a check or money order more information on this request, please
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE for $16.25 (25 cents per page contact Hal Heaton (NIJ RT&E Center)
reproduction cost) payable to the United by telephone at 443–778–5025 or
Notice of Lodging of Proposed
States Treasury. administrator@nijrtecenter.org. For
Consent Decree Under the Clean Water
Act Robert E. Maher, Jr., more information on the NIJ RT&E
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Center, visit http://nij.gov/funding/
On August 26, 2015, the Department Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural awards/Pages/award-
of Justice lodged a proposed consent Resources Division. detail.aspx?award=2013-MU-CX-K111
decree with the United States District [FR Doc. 2015–21546 Filed 8–31–15; 8:45 am] and view the description or contact Jack
Court for the District of Maine in the BILLING CODE 4410–15–P
Harne (NIJ) by telephone at 202–616–
lawsuit entitled United States of 2911 or at Jack.Harne@usdoj.gov. Please
America and State of Maine v. City of note that these are not toll-free
Bangor, Maine, Civil Action No. 1:15– DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE telephone numbers.
cv–00350–NT. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
In the Complaint, the United States, Office of Justice Programs Information Sought: The NIJ RT&E
on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Center seeks input to its upcoming
[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1693] ‘‘Market Survey of Offender Monitoring
Protection Agency, and the State of
Maine, on behalf of the Maine Offender Monitoring Analytics Market Analytics (OMA) Technologies,’’ which
Department of Environmental Survey seeks to identify commercially-available
Protection, allege that the City of Bangor products being marketed to the offender
(the ‘‘City’’) violated the Clean Water AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, monitoring community to facilitate the
Act (‘‘CWA’’), 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq., Justice. discovery and communication of
and applicable regulations relating to ACTION: Notice of request for meaningful patterns in diverse data that
the City’s failure to comply with its information. address their strategic and tactical
National Pollution Discharge System information needs. OMA products may
and small municipal separate storm SUMMARY: The National Institute of (but aren’t necessarily restricted to) use
sewer system permits relating to the Justice (NIJ) is soliciting information in various combinations of statistical
sewer system owned and operated by support of the upcoming National analysis procedures, data and text
the City. The consent decree requires Criminal Justice Technology Research, mining, and predictive modeling to
the City to undertake various measures Test, and Evaluation Center (NIJ RT&E proactively analyze information on
to study and correct the problems Center) ‘‘Market Survey of Offender community-released offenders to
causing the permit violations in order to Monitoring Analytics (OMA) discover hidden relationships and
achieve compliance with the CWA and Technologies.’’ This market survey, patterns in their behaviors and to
applicable regulations. which will address offender monitoring predict future outcomes. They may
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The publication of this notice opens in community settings, will be feature dashboards (i.e., user-interfaces)
a period for public comment on the published by NIJ to assist agencies in that provide easily understandable
consent decree. Comments should be their assessment of relevant information information in either real-time or off-
addressed to the Assistant Attorney prior to making purchasing decisions on line to a wide variety of professionals,
General, Environment and Natural commercially-available systems being which are customizable to permit
Resources Division, and should refer to marketed for use by criminal justice command staff, Probation and Parole
United States of America and State of professionals. The NIJ RT&E Center also Officers (PPOs), crime analysts, and
Maine v. City of Bangor, Maine, D.J. Ref. invites comments with regard to the officers on the street to view all content

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OMA software in real-time, as well Dated: August 21, 2015. reliability, and comparability of
as those that require post- Nancy Rodriguez, program reports submitted by states and
processing; Director, National Institute of Justice. grantees using Federal funds are
• Underlying statistical approach [FR Doc. 2015–21564 Filed 8–31–15; 8:45 am] fundamental elements of good public
used to produce product (e.g., BILLING CODE 4410–18–P
administration, and are necessary tools
cluster analysis, autocorrelation for maintaining and demonstrating
analysis, others) system integrity.
f. Ability/need to export output files This new ICR is expected to take the
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
to other applications for further place of several currently existing ICRs,
analyses Employment and Training including: 1205–0420 Workforce
g. Output file formats produced by the Administration Investment Act (WIA) Management
analytics software (e.g., .kml, .shp, Information and Reporting System,
.csv) Comment Request for Information 1205–0240 Wagner Peyser Labor
h. Method for maintaining cyber- Collection for the Workforce Exchange Reporting System, 1205–0464
security of the data and analysis Performance Accountability, YouthBuild Reporting System, 1205–
products Information, and Reporting System 0422 Reporting and Performance
i. Method for protecting (OMB Control No. 1205–3NEW), New Standards for WIA Indian and Native
confidentiality of personally- Collection American Programs, 1205–0425
identifiable information Reporting and Performance Standards
j. Types of available reports and the AGENCY: Employment and Training System for Migrant and Seasonal
extent to which they are Administration (ETA), Labor. Farmworker Programs Under Title I,
customizable ACTION: Notice. Section 167 of the Workforce
k. Standard dashboard configurations Investment Act, and the 1205–0392
provided by the product SUMMARY: The Department of Labor
(Department or DOL), ETA as part of its Trade Act Participant Report. These
6. Requirements for Host Agency ICRs will be rescinded once the last
Computing Systems: continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, conducts a reporting requirements for WIA
a. Computer operating systems reporting are satisfied. As such, DOL
capable of running the product preclearance consultation to provide the
public and Federal agencies with an will request to remove those from active
b. Minimum amount of RAM (GB), status once the separate reporting
hard disk space (GB), and speed opportunity to comment on the
proposed collection of information in requirements are no longer needed.
(MHz) required to install and run
accordance with the Paperwork DATES: Submit written comments to the
the OMA product on each type of
Reduction Act of 1995 [44 U.S.C. office listed in the addresses section
operating system
c. Minimum graphics board (e.g., 3506(c)(2)(A)] (PRA). The PRA helps below on or before November 2, 2015.
must support OpenGL 1.0) and ensure that respondents can provide ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in
display (e.g., size, resolution, color requested data in the desired format response to this notice should be
levels) requirements for each type with minimal reporting burden (time submitted electronically through the
of operating system and financial resources), collection Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://
d. Approximate amount of time taken instruments are clearly understood and www.regulations.gov by selecting
to provide the principal analysis the impact of collection requirements on Docket ID number ETA–2015–0008 or
products on computers configured respondents can be properly assessed. via postal mail, commercial delivery, or
to meet these minimum Currently, the Department is soliciting hand delivery. A copy of the proposed
requirements comments concerning the collection of ICR with applicable supporting
e. Whether the product must be used data for the Workforce Innovation and documentation, including a description
with a particular vendor’s offender Opportunity Act (WIOA) Workforce of the likely respondents, proposed
monitoring technology or is vendor- Performance Accountability, frequency of response, and estimated
agnostic Information, and Reporting System total burden may be obtained free of
7. Operator/Analyst Training (OMB Control No. 1205–3NEW). The charge from http://www.regulations.gov
Requirements: following programs will be required to or by contacting Luke Murren by
a. Minimum education level/ report through this system: WIOA telephone at 202–693–3733 (this is not
experience needed to set-up and Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth, a toll-free number) or by email at
operate the software (e.g., high- Wagner Peyser Employment Service, murren.luke@dol.gov. Individuals with
school level knowledge of National Farmworker Jobs, Trade hearing or speech impairments may
computers; college-level statistics to Adjustment Assistance, YouthBuild, access the telephone number above via
create required input files and Indian and Native American, and the TTY by calling the toll-free Federal
select appropriate options) Jobs for Veterans’ State Grants. Information Relay Service at 1–877–
b. Minimum education/experience Requiring all of these programs to use a 889–5627 (TTY/TDD). Fax: 202–693–
needed to interpret the output standard set of data elements, 2766.
results definitions, and specifications at all Mail and hand delivery/courier: Send
c. Number of training hours necessary levels of the workforce system helps written comments to Luke Murren,
to set-up/operate the product improve the quality of the performance Office of Policy Development and
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d. Types of available documentation information that is received by DOL. Research, Room N5641, Employment
and training aids (e.g., embedded While H1–B grants and the and Training Administration, U.S.
help files, accessible help desk, user Reintegration of Ex-Offenders program Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
manuals, on-line instruction videos, are not authorized under WIOA, these Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
screen shots; sample data; training programs will be utilizing the data Due to security-related concerns, there
classes) element definitions and reporting may be a significant delay in the receipt
e. Support programs the user must be templates proposed in this Information of submissions by United States Mail.
familiar with to use the tool. Collection Request (ICR). The accuracy, You must take this into consideration

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Dates		Responses to this request will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 25, 2015.
Contact		For more information on this request, please contact Hal Heaton (NIJ RT&E Center) by telephone at 443-778- 5025 or [email protected] For more information on the NIJ RT&E Center, visit http://nij.gov/funding/awards/Pages/award- detail.aspx?award=2013-MU-CX-K111 and view the description or contact Jack Harne (NIJ) by telephone at 202-616-2911 or at [email protected] Please note that these are not toll-free telephone numbers.
FR Citation		80 FR 52796

80 FR 52796 - Offender Monitoring Analytics Market Survey

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEOffice of Justice Programs

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