Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) is an information-sharing program funded by the U.S. Federal government whose purpose is to connect databases from local and regional law enforcement so that they can use each other's data for criminal investigations.
In 1997, RISS created
RISSNET, a network to interconnect many local, state, regional, and tribal law enforcement databases.
In 2002, RISSNET was connected with the FBI's
Law Enforcement Online system.
In 2003, the
National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP) declared that RISSNET would be the official "backbone" for all unclassified, but sensitive criminal intelligence data traffic.
Later that year, members were also given access to the
Automated Trusted Information Exchange (ATIX) database, which contains information on
homeland security
Homeland security is an American national security term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive" t ...
and
terrorist
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
threats.
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Automated Trusted Information Exchange Automated Trusted Information Exchange (ATIX) is a computer database containing homeland security and terrorist threat information, which is part of the U.S. government's Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) program.
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Joint Regional Information Exchange System {{more footnotes, date=December 2009
The Joint Regional Information Exchange System (JRIES) began in December 2002 as an all-source intelligence / information sharing system, designed initially as a grassroots pilot system to connect the California ...
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Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program, also known by the acronym MATRIX, was a U.S. federally funded data mining system originally developed for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement described as a tool to identify terror ...
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