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National Criminal History Improvement Program

The National Criminal History Improvement Program funds improvements in criminal history records used by Federal, State and local law enforcement to identify those ineligible to purchase guns, those convicted of domestic violence, and child sexual predators.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program is fairly strong overall, but some improvements in targeting resources to the states with the greatest needs for improvement in criminal history recordkeeping could improve results.
  • Enhanced performance metrics could help target Federal investments by clarifying where the need for criminal history records improvement is the greatest.
  • Federal resources for this effort are not enough to get the job done. Additional state resources would help make more substantial and faster improvements in criminal history records.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Establishing a program to systematically assess records quality, track and monitor improvements, and establish priorities for funding.
  • Focusing limited program resources on improving the completeness and accuracy of criminal history records, especially the final status of any action taken by the justice system.

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