# North Central Texas Council of Governments **Domain:** Austin Research / Institutions **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 **North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG)** is the regional public organization through which Austin authorized participation in the [[wiki/Law Enforcement Analysis Portal|Law Enforcement Analysis Portal]]. In this cluster its critical role is **regional administration of a federally interfaced information-sharing system**. ## The intermediary is part of the architecture Austin’s agreement names NCTCOG as its counterparty and assigns it gateway, security, technical-assistance, audit, and suspension responsibilities. The DHS LEIS briefing separately names **LEAP (NCTCOG)** among existing MOU partners. The two records connect a municipal authorization to a regional system with a federal interface. The city therefore enters the wider criminal-justice environment through a council of governments. This is the concrete institutional mechanism behind [[wiki/Interlocal Information Sharing|Interlocal Information Sharing]]: municipal membership and federal connectivity can be constituted by agreements at different layers. DOJ’s OneDOJ assessment independently describes federal access negotiated through regional consortia. ## Regional expansion and provider transition NCTCOG’s FY2012 annual report describes LEAP expansion toward trafficking and vehicle-theft corridors including Austin, cooperative work with Tarleton State University, and planned license-plate-recognition links involving Houston and Dallas. These reported activities and plans show a broader geography than the council’s immediate metropolitan region; planned connections retain their stated status. The FY2014 attainment report records the LEAP contract’s extension to and closeout on **August 31, 2014**. The annual financial report describes support for transfer to new provider entities. That is an institutional transition requiring named successor contracts and data records to complete the lineage, rather than an assumption of unchanged NCTCOG operation into later years. ## Connection to the wider Austin argument The NCTCOG–DHS route is an established sharing relationship. [[wiki/IC ITE|IC ITE]] is a separate enterprise architecture useful for comparison of shared services, identity, policy, and information portability. [[wiki/Dallas MOSAIC|Dallas MOSAIC]] supplies the documented North Texas fusion context, while [[wiki/Austin Regional Intelligence Center|ARIC]] supplies Austin’s regional intelligence institution. ## Connected entries [[wiki/DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service|DHS Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service]] · [[wiki/Interlocal Information Sharing|Interlocal Information Sharing]] · [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|LEAP Provider Transition]] · [[wiki/OneDOJ|OneDOJ]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] [[wiki/Law Enforcement Analysis Portal|Law Enforcement Analysis Portal]] · [[wiki/Austin Regional Intelligence Center|Austin Regional Intelligence Center]] · [[wiki/Dallas MOSAIC|Dallas MOSAIC]] · [[wiki/IC ITE|IC ITE]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]] - [DHS — Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service briefing, slides 4–16; existing MOUs on slide 15](https://info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-LEISS.pdf) - [Austin — approved minutes, September 27, 2012, p. 8, items 57–58](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=177584) - [NCTCOG — FY2012 comprehensive annual financial report, criminal justice planning](https://www.nctcog.org/getmedia/e18f1bd1-4f39-4adb-9c68-a7b4d6c2c6d4/CAFR2012.pdf?ext=.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) - [DOJ — OneDOJ privacy impact assessment, §§3 and 5](https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2013/11/23/onedoj-pia.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]]