IJIS Institute Welcomes Carrie Supko as Project Manager

Oct. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- The IJIS Institute, a nonprofit organization that focuses on mission-critical information sharing for justice, public safety, and homeland security, is pleased to welcome Ms. Carrie Supko to the staff as a senior project manager. Supko will be managing the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) project for the IJIS Institute as well as projects related to fusion centers.

The NSI is a partnership among local, state, tribal, and federal agencies to establish a unified process for reporting, tracking, and accessing SARs in a manner that rigorously protects the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of Americans, as called for in the 2007 National Strategy for Information Sharing. The SAR process focuses on what law enforcement has been doing for years—gathering information regarding behaviors and incidents associated with crime and establishing a process to share information to detect and prevent criminal activity, including crime associated with domestic and international terrorism. The NSI strategy is to develop, evaluate, and implement common processes and policies for gathering, documenting, processing, analyzing, and sharing information about terrorism-related suspicious activities.

Carrie Supko comes to the IJIS Institute from the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technologies Center (NLECTC) Communications Technologies Center of Excellence (COE) where she served as the deputy director for the past three years. The NLECTC COE is a program funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice. Prior to joining the Center of Excellence, Supko worked with the National Institute of Justice CommTech Program where she served as the acting program manager as well as the CommTech Outreach, Technology Assistance, and Pilot program manager. Supko has also worked with the Office of Research and Evaluation within the National District Attorney’s Association and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Supko has over ten years of experience in criminal justice project management, grants management, criminal justice and emergency response research/development/testing/ evaluation, implementation and management of pilot projects/operational evaluations, public safety outreach and technology assistance, and first responder communications systems. Supko received her B.A. in crime, law, and justice from The Pennsylvania State University and holds both an associate’s certificate and master’s certificate in project management.

“I am pleased to welcome Carrie to the IJIS Institute,” stated Paul Wormeli, executive director of the IJIS Institute. “She has a broad knowledge base in criminal justice and public safety and is an experienced project manager – these will be valuable in overseeing and guiding the IJIS Institute activities in the NSI project.”

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The IJIS Institute is a nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of industry, uniting the private and public sectors to improve mission-critical information sharing for those who protect and serve our communities. Find out more at www.ijis.org.