NJISI Online Legal Search Tool:
The newly developed NJISI online legal search tool developed by the NJISI program and OJJDP, organizes and presents state laws on juvenile records, juvenile interagency information sharing and privacy. The online tool was developed through NJISI Training and Technical Assistance efforts and from requests for assistance with policy development and privacy procedures from juvenile and youth serving agencies in the fields of at-risk youth and juvenile justice.

Click here to use the NJISI Juvenile Records Search tool

The Practitioner's Guide for JIS Consent
The Practitioner's Guide is an infograph created NJISI as a tool to assist practioner's through the decision making process of consent - when is consent needed, when should it be asked for and who is the agency or organization asking for it. The online tool was developed through NJISI Training and Technical Assistance efforts and from requests for assistance with policy development and privacy procedures from juvenile and youth serving agencies in the fields of at-risk youth and juvenile justice.

Click here to download a pdf of the The Practitioner's Guide for JIS Consent

JJXplorer
JJXplorer is an exploration and discovery tool for the Juvenile Justice XML Data Model (JJXDM). It provides a number of features:

• A hierarchical overview of the model relationships.
• Detailed information about individual elements and types and the relationships between them.
• Advanced searching capabilities combined with detailed information about elements and types. Names and descriptions are fully searchable.
• A complete list of properties available for a specific element. It does this by transversing the type derivation and container paths.

The JJXplorer tool was specifically developed for the JuvenileXML (JJXML) project utilizing various open source projects.

Extension Wizard
The Extension Wizard is a tool developed by the NJISI program that alleviates the difficulty of developing proper information exchanges. The tool hides the complexities of this process by guiding users through a series of steps to successfully develop data exchanges. The Extension Wizard tool is an exchange-defining tool that is being made available to the non¬technical community and that will ensure XML Schema conformance with National Information Exchange Model - NIEM.

The Extension Wizard provides a simple web page that users can access to build information sharing objects using the JJXDM or, other domains contained within NIEM. Users of the tool can easily define new data, which would hold information such as student identification numbers or strings of text, for example descriptions or notes.

Users will also be able to define new information, which would assist in completing their information exchange. By combining new information or data with the existing information contained in the juvenile justice data model; the user can easily define a new data exchange component that is conformant with NIEM.

Click here to access the online version of the Extension Wizard tool.

The Extension Wizard is a standalone JavaScript™ application. The application can be run from a web site or, from a local directory on a user's computer. To install the Extension Wizard, simply decompress the distribution ZIP™ file either on a web server or on a local computer and open the index.html file in a web browser.

Click here to download the Extension Wizard to your local computer.