An awareness resource for justice executives, as well as an informational tool to use for training. The easy-to-read flyer is designed to engender awareness about the topic, make the case for privacy policy development, and underscore the importance of promoting privacy protections within justice agencies. Included is information on basic privacy concepts; the intersection between privacy, security, and information quality; privacy risks; and steps to establish privacy protections through a privacy program cycle. This paper applies settled privacy principles to justice information sharing systems and makes recommendations on best practices

Included in the Privacy Guide is the SLT Policy Development Template, which was developed to assist SLT agencies in drafting a privacy policy. The provisions suggested are intended to be incorporated into the agency's general operational policies and day-to-day operations. Each section represents a fundamental component of a comprehensive policy that includes baseline provisions on information collection, information quality,

The checklist is a companion piece to the SLT Policy Development Template and serves both as a self-assessment tool to assist privacy policy authors, project teams, and agency administrators in evaluating whether the provisions contained within their draft policy have met the core concepts recommended in the SLT Policy Development Template and as a useful resource for use during the annual policy review. The checklist is structured according to policy provision categories. These include key concepts such as:

Policy applicability and legal compliance
Governance and oversight
Acquiring and receiving information
Information quality assurance
Sharing and dissemination
Redress Security safeguards
Information retention and destruction
Accountability and enforcement

Section references are also provided to correlate checklist components with those in the SLT Policy Development Template.

Thanks to the great work by the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Global, Global partners, and through DOJ collaborations with other federal agencies, there are a variety of privacy awareness, policy development, and implementation products available to the justice community today. To help these agencies know which privacy product(s) to use when and for what purpose, Global has published a roadmap for navigating through these resources in a Global Privacy Resources booklet. The road map graphically illustrates the stages an agency naturally goes through when embarking on such an endeavor, (such as education and awareness, self-assessment, policy development, technical implementation, and training). Each of these stages, together, comprises a Privacy Program Cycle. The Global Privacy Resources booklet graphically illustrates every stage of this cycle and guides agencies to the resources they need for each particular stage. Global recognizes that State, Local, and Tribal (SLT) justice entities come in all sizes, with a variety of roles and with varying degrees of available resources. The resources presented in this booklet are flexible and designed to meet a spectrum of privacy protection needs. In addition to this downloadable booklet, Global has also developed an online version of this information available at www.it.ojp.gov/privacy

Practitioners are provided a framework with which to examine the privacy implications of their information systems and information sharing collaborations so they can design and implement privacy policies to address vulnerabilities identified through the assessment process. Privacy policies emerge as a result of the analysis performed during the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) process. In addition to an overview of the PIA process, this guide contains a template that leads policy developers through a series of appropriate PIA questions that evaluate the process through which personally identifiable information is collected, stored, protected, shared, and managed. The PIA questions are designed to reflect the same policy concepts as those recommended in the Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Policy Development Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Justice Entities, further supporting privacy policy development.

Cell phone tracking features are a widely used practice promoted by Big Data Advocates.

In fact, the majority of new applications we download to our phones or computers do the following;
Tower sensor
Wifi Network sensors
Broadband sensors
Find my iPhone
Find my Android phone
PhoneSherriff.com
PhoneBeagle.com

If the victim’s location privacy has been compromised, does the victim want or need to relocate?
What steps might be taken with respect to cell phones and location based‐service to increase the victim and her children’s safety during and after relocating?
Depending upon the location‐based application or service used, how will law enforcement best document and collect evidence about the perpetrator’s misuse?
What charges might be appropriate?
(e.g.stalking,electronic surveillance)

Many criminal cases require the district attorney to acquire a warrant to collect the data from the cell phone carrier, when the data is freely offered to a developer.

Federal & State Laws
VAWA 2005 § 3:Grantees and subgrantees cannot disclose personally identifying information about persons served without the in formed, written, reasonably time ‐ limited consent of the person.
•State: Most states have victim/advocate confidentiality for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors and advocates.
Check with an attorney in your jurisdiction to see what confidentiality laws apply.