Feds exit the Matrix.(Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange)
Publication Date: 01-JUL-05
Publication Title: Security Management
Format: Online
Author: Gips, Michael A.

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Federal funding for the controversial MATRIX program--which linked state criminal justice databases with information from commercial databases--has expired, but the program doesn't appear to be dead.

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After being launched in January 2002 and funded by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) was at one time adopted by more than a dozen states. It had, however, been abandoned by all but four when funding ran out. Reasons states gave for exiting...

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