The County has been working in cooperation with neighboring jurisdictions as part of the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI). The 2008 UASI grant provided through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for which the County is a subrecipient under the City of San Francisco, is funding the expansion of the Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES) criminal justice information system. The Memoranda of Understanding provide for the County of Alameda and the City of Oakland to have access to the Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES) for the purpose of sharing and integrating criminal justice information with other participating Agencies. The MOUs set forth the governing policies and procedures for the use of ARIES by participating agencies, to include maintenance and responsibility of the information within the system. ARIES has the capability to make potential linkages between law enforcement information from crime incidents, criminal investigations, warrants, arrests, bookings, paroles and other pertinent information. Participating agencies law enforcement and homeland security efforts will greatly benefit from the shared information.