# Law Enforcement Analysis Portal **Domain:** Austin Research / Programs **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. The **Law Enforcement Analysis Portal (LEAP)** is the criminal-justice records and analysis environment historically administered by the [[wiki/North Central Texas Council of Governments|North Central Texas Council of Governments]]. **Austin’s 2012 authorization was an entry point into a federally interfaced national information-sharing environment through a regional intermediary.** The decisive evidence is the combination of the city’s participation instrument and DHS’s explicit listing of **“LEAP (NCTCOG)” among existing MOU partners**. ## The federal connection is documented Slide 15 of the [[wiki/DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service|DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service briefing]] lists NCTCOG LEAP alongside [[wiki/ARJIS|ARJIS]], LInX Northwest, [[wiki/OneDOJ|OneDOJ]], AzLINK’s Tucson node, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, [[wiki/Texas Data Exchange|TDEx]], and National Capital Region LInX. NLETS and N-DEx appear separately as agreements expected in FY2010. Earlier slides describe the service exposing selected DHS person-centered information through [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]]. This establishes a named federal interface behind the regional portal. The city joined through NCTCOG, while the DHS agreement existed at the regional-system layer. **A separate direct Austin–DHS agreement was not the participation instrument for that route.** The records support mediated federal integration; they also retain upstream agreements, account authorization, and limits on what data the service exposed. The underlying signed DHS–LEAP MOU and its implementation annex remain retrieval targets. ## The September 27, 2012 council action The approved minutes record two adjacent consent items, both passed **7–0**: - **Item 57:** authorization to negotiate and execute the interlocal agreement for ARIC sustainment funding. - **Item 58:** authorization to negotiate and execute the NCTCOG agreement for Austin’s LEAP participation. Together they place regional intelligence sustainment and broader records access in the same municipal decision sequence. The minutes establish authorization; the published agreement copy supplies the detailed terms but has blank execution fields. An executed copy and account or implementation records would date operational activation more precisely. ## What the agreement makes possible The recitals describe a cached repository of RMS and other criminal-justice data, officer-safety queries, crime/link analysis, and geospatial relationships among individuals, locations, and property. They explicitly contemplate local and state systems in other states and federal units inside and outside Texas. Section 2 provides **100 user access licenses**, extraction/submission assistance, controlled gateway access, security review, and NCTCOG audit and suspension powers. Section 3 retains city ownership and accuracy responsibility while requiring agreed RMS and other criminal-justice contributions. Section 7 requires an implementation plan covering training, specifications, encrypted transfer, testing, and milestones. The stated subscription fee is **$0**, with each party bearing its implementation costs. Section 3.3 defines LEAP’s purpose as law enforcement, officer safety, crime, and link analysis; it expressly excludes intelligence-analysis use and classified US government information. This contractual purpose distinction matters alongside the national interface. Austin’s RMS participation is documented; automatic ingestion of every ARIC intelligence product is not specified by this agreement. ## Origins and continuity The agreement records **December 15, 2005 project approval** and **April 27, 2006 advisory-committee approval**. These governance dates precede the approximate 2007 launch inferred from the essay’s 2010 partnership announcement. Approval, development, and operational launch are different milestones. The initial city agreement term runs through October 31, 2013 and then renews automatically each year unless terminated. Consequently, the absence of a later annual council item is not by itself evidence of lapse. NCTCOG’s own FY2014 attainment report records an extension of its LEAP contract through **August 31, 2014**, followed by closeout; its annual financial report describes a transition to new providers. [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|LEAP Provider Transition]] follows that event and the remaining custody questions. ## Commercial and methodological branches [[wiki/COPsync|COPsync]] supplies the essay’s patrol-data partnership lead. [[wiki/LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)|Forensic Logic’s LEAP Network]], [[wiki/COPLINK|COPLINK]], and [[wiki/CrimeTracer|CrimeTracer]] form a documented commercial product history whose exact relationship to NCTCOG’s portal remains unresolved. The 2014 handoff narrows the investigation but does not name the successor providers. The comparison with [[wiki/Oden Institute|Oden]], [[wiki/Population State Estimation|population estimation]], and [[wiki/IC ITE|IC ITE]] concerns the integration of partial observations into usable models. The specifically verified organizational chain here is city participation, regional administration, and the DHS interface. ## Connected entries [[wiki/DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service|DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service]] · [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]] · [[wiki/Interlocal Information Sharing|Interlocal Information Sharing]] · [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|LEAP Provider Transition]] · [[wiki/COPsync|COPsync]] · [[wiki/LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)|LEAP Network (Forensic Logic)]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger]] [[wiki/North Central Texas Council of Governments|North Central Texas Council of Governments]] · [[wiki/Austin Regional Intelligence Center|Austin Regional Intelligence Center]] · [[wiki/Dallas MOSAIC|Dallas MOSAIC]] · [[wiki/Epidemiological and Threat Network Analysis|Epidemiological and Threat Network Analysis]] · [[wiki/Multi-Use Inference and Control|Multi-Use Inference and Control]] · [[wiki/Texas Fusion Center|Texas Fusion Center]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]] - [Austin — approved minutes, September 27, 2012, p. 8, items 57–58](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=177584) - [DHS — Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service briefing, slides 4–16; existing MOUs on slide 15](https://info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-LEISS.pdf) - [NCTCOG — FY2014 Goals Attainment, p. 79, contract extended and closed August 31, 2014](https://www.nctcog.org/getContentAsset/62860e51-24a3-4b7f-b187-2be6a77fcd5f/dfc3d011-8f63-43f6-9ed8-4b444333a1d0/fy-2014-nctcog-goals-attainment.pdf) - [NCTCOG — FY2014 comprehensive annual financial report, PDF p. 10, provider transition](https://www.nctcog.org/getmedia/cb64f213-b8d5-4332-aae2-8cabe5354be1/CAFR2014.pdf?ext=.pdf) - [[research/Oden Institute - Machine Learning, Medicine, and Terrorism|Oden Institute - Machine Learning, Medicine, and Terrorism]] - [[research/ODIN - Observe, Detect, Identify, Neutralize|ODIN - Observe, Detect, Identify, Neutralize]] - [City of Austin — LEAP Interlocal Agreement (2012)](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=176641) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]]