IOWA INTERCOM March 2010 Issue RULES AND REGULATIONS UPDATE Technology Services Bureau has updated the rules and regulations regarding lapsed or expired certification. Effective immediately, users who allow their certification to lapse more than 90 days will be required to attend a certification class prior to re-testing, and will automatically be locked out of the online test after the 90 days. Attempts to logon to nextest will result in the following message: Your IOWA/NCIC certification has expired more than 90 days. You are now required to attend a certification class prior to re-certification. Please ensure your agency TAC (Terminal Agency Coordinator) contacts Technology Services to register you for a class. ALL PARTICIPANTS CONFERENCE SET Mark your calendars for the All Participants Conference. The date is Friday, May 21, 2010, from 7:30-4:30 at the Ankeny campus of Des Moines Area Community College. The conference will be held in Building 6, the DMACC auditorium. Free parking is available. A map of DMACC and tentative agenda are provided below. Registration is limited to two persons per agency. If you wish to send additional employees, they will be placed on a first come, first served, waiting list. If additional slots become available, your agency will be notified. To register for the conference, fill out the form provided below and e-mail it to: apc2010@dps.state.ia.us, or fax it to (515) 725-6201 (note: e-mail registration is preferred). The registration form can also be found on nextest under the CJIS Documents icon. Simply click on the APC folder, fill out the registration form, and e-mail back to Technology Services Bureau. Deadline for registration is Friday, April 16, 2010. Blocks of rooms have been reserved at two hotels. The Best Western Metro North-Ankeny located at 133 SE Delaware. Please mention the code APC when reserving rooms to obtain the following reduced rates, $55 (1 bed), or $65 (2 beds), plus taxes. Rates are valid until April 29, 2010. Call (515) 964-1717 for reservations. Additional hotel details can be found at their website: http://www.bestwesterniowa.com/hotels/best-westernmetro-north/index.html. The second hotel is the Fairfield Inn and Suites located at 215 NE Delaware. Please mention the code APC when reserving rooms to obtain the reduced rate of $65 plus taxes. Rates are valid until April 29, 2010. Call (515) 965-8400 for reservations. Additional hotel details can be found at their website: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dsmak-fairfield-inn-and-suites-ankeny/. Both hotels are located right off I-35 at the Ankeny First Street exit close to DMACC, restaurants and shopping. Iowa Department of Public Safety Technology Services Bureau, 4 th Floor Telephone: (515) 725-6220 215 East Seventh Street In Wats: (800) 362-2297 Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0045 Fax: (515) 725-6201 902
2010 APC Tentative Agenda 7:15-8:00 Registration 8:00-8:30 Introduction/State of IOWA System 8:30-9:30 Nlets The International Public Safety and Criminal Justice Network 9:30-10:00 Break 10:00-11:00 Peak Performance-Online Validations, nextest and CJIS Security Training 11:00-12:00 Iowa Criminal Justice Integration System (CJIS) 12:00-1:00 Lunch (on your own) 1:00-2:00 NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration 2:00-2:45 FBI / DPS Security Update 2:45-3:00 Break 3:00-4:30 Updates/ Q&A session 4:30 Drawing for door prizes (must be present to win) 903
APC REGISTRATION FORM All Participants Conference May 21, 2010 Please type or print legibly AGENCY AGENCY PHONE NUMBER NAME(S) List any questions or issues your agency would like addressed. Please return this form by April 16, 2010 904
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TRAINING CALENDAR Certification Sessions: March 4 1030 Council Bluffs March 11 0900 Des Moines April 1 1000 Waterloo April 8 0900 Des Moines May 13 0900 Des Moines June 3 1030 Mt Pleasant Basic IOWA System Training (BIST): April 20-22, 2010 July 20-22, 2010 October 19-21, 2010 DES MOINES CERTIFICATION CLASSES NOW HELD AT DPS HQ The Des Moines IOWA/NCIC certification classes are held at the Department of Public Safety Headquarters. The training continues to be held at 9:00 a.m. DPS HQ is located 215 East 7 th Street which is at the corner of East 7 th and Court Avenue. There is designated visitor parking which is accessed via Court Avenue. CHANGE TO DATE OF BIRTH MATCHING ON IOWA HITS As a result of the XML conversion of IOWA hotfiles, programming was changed to automatically check plus or minus one year on the date of birth. This was done to reduce the amount of wanted person responses from an inquiry. Prior to making this programming change, users were receiving unusually large amounts of responses. Users have the capability to expand the search to plus or minus two years by submitting the inquiry with EBS/1. If users want to expand the search to plus or minus three years, they may do so by submitting the inquiry with EBS/2. IOWA OPERATIONS Total switched messages for the year to date 11,014,461 Vehicles on file 10,779 Wanted/Missing Persons on file 53,431 Articles on file 7,181 906