security program throughout the CSA’s user community. The CSA for this state is the
department.
(j) "CJIS Systems Officer" means a member of the CSA, selected by the head of
the CSA, having the ultimate responsibility for the administration of the CJIS network on
behalf of the CSA, including setting and enforcing standards for personnel accessing CJI
and policies governing components of CJIS and related systems used to process, store, or
transmit CJI; ensuring appropriate use of CJIS and CJI, compliance with approved
polices, and that the CJIS Information Security Officer and Local Agency Security
Officers are appointed; and approving access to CJIS and FBI criminal justice
information services systems.
(k) "CSA" means the CJIS Systems Agency.
(l) "CSO" means the CJIS Systems Officer.
(m) "Criminal justice agency" means a court or other governmental agency, or
any subunit of the court or governmental agency, that engages in the administration of
criminal justice pursuant to a statute or executive order and that allocates a substantial
part of its annual budget for the administration of criminal justice. The federal and state
Inspectors General Offices are considered criminal justice agencies.
(n) "Criminal justice information" means data (electronic or hard copy) obtained
from LEIN, AFIS, ALIAS, or SNAP, including, but not limited to, biometric, identity
history, person, organization, and property data.
(o) "Criminal justice information systems" means the LEIN, AFIS, ALIAS or
SNAP systems.
(p) "Department" means the Michigan department of state police.
(q) "Dissemination" means the transmission, distribution, and disclosure of CJI.
(r) "FBI" means the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(s) "Hot files" means databases maintained by the department that collects and
disseminates information pertaining to wanted and missing persons, probation orders,
mental health orders, jail or lockup information, and stolen, abandoned, or impounded
property.
(t) "Law Enforcement Information Network" means the communication network
that collects and disseminates CJI to authorized Michigan CJIS user agencies; is the
message switch that provides access to various state and national databases; and is the hot
files and PPO databases.
(u) "LEIN" means the Law Enforcement Information Network.
(v) "National Crime information Center" means the nationwide, computerized
information system established as a service to all criminal justice agencies operated by
the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
(w) "NCIC" means the National Crime Information Center.
(x) "Personally Identifiable Information" means information that can be used to
distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as social security number, or biometric
records, alone; or name, when combined with other personal or identifying information
that is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, or
mother’s maiden name.
(y) "PII" means personally identifiable information.
(z) "PPO database" means the database maintained by the department that collects
and disseminates information pertaining to personal protection orders, pursuant to section
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