Policy Text
42.5 CJIS SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE Page 1 of 21 EDGEWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT
GENERAL ORDER # 42.5
CJIS SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Revised Date: September 12 , 2024
This General Order consists of the following numbered sections:
I. Relationship to the FBI CJIS Security Policy
II. Personally Identifiable Information
III. Information Exchange
IV. Information Handling
V. Incident Response
VI. Account Management
VII. System Access Control for Multiple Concurrent Sessions
VIII. Remote Access
IX. Personally Owned Information Systems
X. Identification and Authentication
XI. Authenticator Management
XII. Media Protection
XIII. Physical Protection
XIV. Encryption
XV. Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)
XVI. Patch Management
XVII. Security Alerts and Advisories
XVIII. Wireless Usa ge Restrictions/Logs/Mobile Devices
XIX. Bluetooth
XX. Incident Response for Limited Featured Operating System Devices
XXI. Personnel Sanctions
I. RELATIONSHIP TO THE FBI CJIS SECURITY POLICY
The overriding goal of this policy is to comply with the FBI C JIS Security Policy and the
FDLE User Agreement requirements. Due to the evolving nature of the CJIS Security Policy,
it is necessary to separately communicate the requirements of the CJIS Security Policy as
they are developed and enhanced. These additional requirements are intended to be an
enhancement to the existing Standard Operating Procedures of the Edgewood Police
Department. The Agency shall adhere, at a minimum, to the CJIS Security Policy. While
the Agency may augment or increase the stan dards, it cannot detract from the minimum
42.5 CJIS SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE Page 2 of 21 requirements set forth by the FBI CJIS Security Policy.
II. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
PII Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is information which can be used to distinguish
or trace an individual’ s identity, such as name, social security number, or biometric
records, alone or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is
linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, or mother’s
maiden name. Any NCIC or FCIC provided data maintained by the agency, including but
not limited to, education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or
employment history may include an individual’s PII.
All electronic files that contain PII will reside within the Agency’s physically secure
location. All physical files (aka paper, folders, etc.) that contain PII will reside within a
locked file cabinet, storeroom , or office when not being actively viewed or modified. PII is
not to be downloade d to workstations or mobile devices (such as laptops, personal digital
assistants (smartphones), mobile phones, tablets or removable media) or to systems
outside the protection of the Agency. PII will also not be sent through any form of insecure
electronic communication as significant security risks emerge when PII is transferred from
a secure location to a less secure location or is disposed of improperly.
When disposing of PII the physical or electronic file should be shredded or securely
dele ted. All disposal of PII will be done by authorized Agency personnel. The Agency shall
select a mobile shredding vendor who will shred physical PII on premises. If disk drives
(flash drives, server drives, disk drives) storing PII are to be reused, they sh all be
overwritten a minimum of three times or degaussing of digital media.
All PII will be collected only when there is a legal authority and it is necessary to conduct
Agency duties. Access to PII is only conducted when the information is needed to cond uct
Agency official duties and should only be utilized for official purposes. Agency members
will not create duplicate copies of documents that contain PII and will destroy the
documents when no longer needed. When PII is extracted from a document Agency
members may only target the PII that is required for the task. PII that is extracted shall not
be retained beyond the record retention rules for the data and the system it was accessed
from. PII shall not be stored or transmitted via personally own ed devices. PII may not be
taken home by any Agency member.
III. INFORMATION EXCHANGE
Criminal Justice Information is the term used to refer to all of the FBI CJIS provided data
necessary for law enforcement and civil agencies to perform their missions including, but
not limited to biometric, identity history, biographic, property, and case/incident history
data. CJI is considered any information that is derived from NCIC and/or FCIC and should
be treated as such. The Agency will put forth forma l agreements with other agencies prior
to exchanging crimin al justice information as well as the use of secondary dissemination.
The Agency allows for criminal justice information to be shared with local law
42.5 CJIS SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE Page 3 of 21 enforcement agencies and has current agreements in place with each. This exchange is
allowed only via hard copy or fax machine. Transmission via email is not permitted.
If the Agency needs to share CJI with another agency that it does not currently have an
agreement with