{"id":4567,"date":"2016-12-22T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2016-12-22T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:00:37","slug":"california-law-enforcement-telecommunications-system-clets-approves-microsoft-government-cloud-services-for-criminal-justice-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/california-law-enforcement-telecommunications-system-clets-approves-microsoft-government-cloud-services-for-criminal-justice-information\/","title":{"rendered":"California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) approves Microsoft Government Cloud services for Criminal Justice Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) provides law enforcement and criminal justice agencies access to FBI and state Criminal Justice Information, along with the ability to communicate messages to other agencies within California, other states and Canada.\u00a0 As the interface to criminal justice information systems, CLETS approval is required for access to critical, life-saving public safety information. Last week, CLETS approved the <strong>Chula Vista Police Department<\/strong> to utilize Azure and Microsoft Office 365 government cloud services for Criminal Justice Information. This approval allows law enforcement agencies throughout California the opportunity to meet the regulatory controls of the CJIS Security Policy while taking advantage of hyper-scale cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>As confirmed by <strong>Eric Wood, Chula Vista Police Technology Manager<\/strong><em> \u201cWe are excited at Chula Vista Police Department to have received approval from the CLETS Advisory Committee to utilize Microsoft Office 365 and Azure services in the Government Cloud to fulfill our agency\u2019s critical public safety mission.\u00a0We deeply appreciate Microsoft\u2019s partnership, trust and transparency which have made it possible to meet the security requirements of the CJIS Security Policy for these new technologies.\u00a0 We can now provide our personnel current tools that deliver capabilities, security and reliability which would otherwise be beyond our reach for on-premises solutions with limited staffing\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As shown with our collaboration with Chula Vista Police Department, we at Microsoft see meeting the applicable regulatory controls of the CJIS Security Policy as a long-term commitment. We don\u2019t consider it a checkbox, it is a <em>commitment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For additional implementation information, review the Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.technet.microsoft.com\/CJIS-Implementation-62af7c27\">CJIS Implementation Guidelines<\/a>. This document provides guidelines and resources to assist criminal justice entities in implementing and utilizing Microsoft Government Cloud features.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your comments and suggestions to help us continually\u00a0improve your Azure Government experience. To stay up to date on all things Azure Government, be sure to subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/feed\/\">RSS feed<\/a> and to receive emails, click \u201cSubscribe by Email!\u201d on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/\">Azure Government Blog<\/a>. To experience the power of Azure Government for your organization, sign up for an <a href=\"https:\/\/azuregov.microsoft.com\/trial\/azuregovtrial\">Azure Government Trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) provides law enforcement and criminal justice agencies access to FBI and state Criminal Justice Information, along with the ability to communicate messages to other agencies within California, other states and Canada.\u00a0 As the interface to criminal justice information systems, CLETS approval is required for access to critical, life-saving public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1772,"featured_media":20423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[95,149,167,189,435],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-portalpreview","tag-azure-government","tag-california","tag-clets","tag-compliance","tag-o365"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) provides law enforcement and criminal justice agencies access to FBI and state Criminal Justice Information, along with the ability to communicate messages to other agencies within California, other states and Canada.\u00a0 As the interface to criminal justice information systems, CLETS approval is required for access to critical, life-saving public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}