Identify Local Resources
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This article will help you identify local resources that may be useful to other federation members and to determine whether they can be made available to other organizations' users under certain access rules.
Service Providers need to determine which production resources they should make available to other federation members. An equally important consideration is which of these resources can be permitted to be made available and how long the decision making process will take. Federation members typically "own" some resources; in other words, the federation member administers the resource or otherwise has control over access decisions. For these resources, the decision to make the resource available to federation users may be easy. But some federation members may be distributing data that belongs to another organization. In this case, receiving permission to release the data may be more complex and time consuming. The required timelines for gaining permission to make resources available within a federation need to be built into an SP's implementation schedule.
Resources that might be useful to other law enforcement organizations include the following:
- Arrest records
- Incident reports
- Criminal history reports
- Criminal justice reports
- Criminal investigative reports
- Criminal intelligence reports
- Counterterrorism notifications
- Driver's license records
- Public safety messages
- Other federal/state/tribal/local law enforcement information
Types of resources that would be less useful but still of potential interest to federation users include the following:
- Amber Alerts (i.e., missing child alerts)
- Sex offender information
- Other publicly available information
As part of the process of determining which local resources are to be made available, you must also collect the appropriate authority-to-operate documents for providing those resources to federation users.
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