The National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ) is the United States' central database for tracking crime-related information. The NCIC has been an information sharing tool since 1967. It is maintained by the Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is interlinked with federal, tribal, state, and local agencies and offices.
3-517: The National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990 (NCSA) (42 U.S.C. 5779 (Reporting Requirement) and 42 U.S.C. 5780 (State Requirements): The NCSA requires local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to immediately enter information about abducted children into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database without requiring a waiting period. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 amended
6-508: The NCSA to require law enforcement to enter information about missing and abducted children in the NCIC database within two hours of receiving a report. This United States federal legislation article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National Crime Information Center The NCIC database was created in 1967 under FBI director J. Edgar Hoover . The purpose of the system
9-591: Was to create a centralized information system to facilitate information flow between the numerous law enforcement branches. The original infrastructure cost is estimated to have been over $ 180 million. In the mid-1990s, the program went through an upgrade from the legacy system to the current NCIC 2000 system. A 1993 GAO estimate concluded that in addition to the costs of the upgrades, the FBI would need to spend an additional $ 2 billion to update its computer system to allow all users workstation access. The NCIC makes available
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