FY 2016 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)

This program is intended to improve the nation’s safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information used for criminal justice and noncriminal justice background checks. Four objectives are targeted: (1) providing direct financial and technical assistance to states and tribes to improve their criminal records systems and other related systems in an effort to support background checks; (2) ensuring the infrastructure is developed to connect criminal history records systems to the state record repository or appropriate federal agency record system and ensuring records are accessible through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records systems; (3) providing the training and technical assistance needed to ensure that records systems are developed and managed to conform to FBI standards of practice with respect to privacy and confidentiality; and (4) using systematic evaluation and standardized performance measurement and statistics to access progress made in improving in improving in national records holdings and background check systems.