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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Warren Rupf, Sheriff-Coroner
Date:	January 19, 2010

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Appropriation Adjustment - ARIES/COPS Congressional Mandate

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 01/19/2010

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

Susan A. Bonilla, District IV Supervisor

Contact:	Liz Arbuckle, 335-1601
cc:	Frank Scudero Beth Kilian Tim Ewell

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: January 19, 2010
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE Appropriation Adjustment No. 5043 authorizing new revenue in the Sheriff's Office (0255) in the amount of $558,208 from the U.S. Department of Justice, 2008 COPS Technology Program Grant and appropriating it for the development of the Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES) project.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This action increases revenue and appropriations by $558,208. CFDA No. 16.710.

BACKGROUND:

In January 2007, the County submitted a Federal Fiscal Year 2008 appropriation request to our federal delegation in the amount of $1,000,000 for the ARIES project. Owing to the support of our legislators, Chair and Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors (who personally lobbied for the project), and our federal advocate, the Office of the Sheriff was notified that the County would receive $658,000 (less administrative costs) for ARIES.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

The Regional Integrated Justice Systems project (ARIES) provides criminal intelligence information to first responders and anti-terrorism task forces from 25 Contra Costa County law enforcement agencies, 23 agencies in Alameda County, plus 16 more agencies in the contiguous counties of Solano and San Joaquin County. When complete, ARIES will be able to upload its regional data to the FBI's N-DEx system to be exchanged with Los Angeles and San Diego regions. In addition, ARIES users will be able to access FBI, ATF, DEA, Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Marshals' data from ONEDOJ's R-DEx program.

This technology will enable investigators with a single sign-on to query local, regional, state and federal data to truly "connect the dots" in their efforts to prevent crime, solve crimes, and protect the citizens in a large portion of Northern California with a population of over 11 million people.