SIX-INTL End-of-Course Survey Gen IC

Request for a New Collection under the “Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Services Delivery”

(OMB Control Number: xxxx-xxxx)

TITLE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION: CJIS Division Virtual Training Registration-UCR

PURPOSE:

• To collect basic registration information from authorized federal, state, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies interested in attending one or more web-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program virtual training sessions.

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONDENTS:

Federal, state, local, and tribal criminal justice practitioners who are currently participating in the UCR program or those who are interested in or working toward participating in the UCR Program. The registration form serves the purpose of allowing a registrant to specify interest in a specific time/date while providing the UCR Program’s external trainers sufficient information about the registrant to confirm their authorized attendance in the class.

The UCR Program is a voluntary program in which university and college, city, county, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies participate by submitting their crime data and law enforcement data. The data submitted is used to generate crime statistics which can then be utilized by vast categories of groups and individuals to include law enforcement agencies, students, researchers, the media, and the public.

TYPE OF COLLECTION: (Check one)

[ ] Customer Comment Card/Complaint Form [ ] Customer Satisfaction Survey

[ ] Usability Testing (e.g., Website or Software [ ] Small Discussion Group

[ ] Focus Group X Other: __Registration form_

CERTIFICATION:

I certify the following to be true:

1. The collection is voluntary.

2. The collection is low-burden for respondents and low-cost for the Federal Government.

3. The collection is non-controversial and does not raise issues of concern to other federal agencies.

4. The results are not intended to be disseminated to the public.

5. Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions.

6. The collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions from respondents who have experience with the program or may have experience with the program in the future.

Name: Kayla Burnside

Training Instructor

CJIS Audit Unit

FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division

304-625-7607

To assist review, please provide answers to the following question:

Personally Identifiable Information:

1. Is personally identifiable information (PII) collected? X Yes No

2. If Yes, will any information that is collected be included in records that are subject to the Privacy Act of 1974? X Yes No

3. If Yes, has an up-to-date System of Records Notice (SORN) been published? X Yes No

Gifts or Payments:

Is an incentive (e.g., money or reimbursement of expenses, token of appreciation) provided to participants? [ ] Yes X No

BURDEN HOURS (Annually)

Category of Respondent	No. of Respondents	Participation Time	Burden
State, local, university and college, or tribal governments	2,500	3 minutes	125 (hrs)
Federal Government	2,500	3 minutes	125 (hrs)
Totals	5,000		250 (hrs)

FEDERAL COST: The estimated annual cost to the Federal government is: $0

If you are conducting a focus group, survey, or plan to employ statistical methods, please provide answers to the following questions:

The selection of your targeted respondents

1. Do you have a customer list or something similar that defines the universe of potential respondents and do you have a sampling plan for selecting from this universe? X Yes [ ] No

If the answer is yes, please provide a description of both below (or attach the sampling plan)? If the answer is no, please provide a description of how you plan to identify your potential group of respondents and how you will select them?

The respondent universe for the CJIS Audit Unit Virtual Training Feedback-UCR Form comprises one population. The population is the personnel from the approximately 18,000 federal, state, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies’ which are eligible to participate in the UCR Program by submitting crime data. They will be invited to register for future classes via email solicitations, marketing materials, and similar outreach initiatives. The burden estimates are based on annual anticipated course offerings and associated attendee volume per course. All invitations, regardless of medium, include an online link to the registration form.

Administration of the Instrument

1. How will you collect the information? (Check all that apply)

X Web-based or other forms of Social Media

[ ] Telephone

[ ] In-person

[ ] Mail

[ ] Other, Explain

2. Will interviewers or facilitators be used? [ ] Yes X No

Submit all instruments, instructions, and scripts with the request.

The instrument will be hosted online, via an online survey tool utilizing FBI forms through Office of Public Affairs (OPA). A draft copy of the instrument is attached to the application package.

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