Robert Boehmer
National Criminal Justice Association
Robert Boehmer is Director of the Institute for Public Safety Partnerships at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Institute provides training and technical assistance to enhance the capacities of communities, police, and other agencies to work together and to build safer and healthier communities. The Institute specializes in partnership building, working with police, justice officials, community, and other organizations to develop new, advanced education, training, and technical assistance delivery systems. Prior to coming to the Institute, Mr. Boehmer was General Counsel and Secretary for the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. In that position, he was a member of the executive staff, served as chief of staff, managed the legal affairs of the agency, and directed its legislative program. At the Authority, Mr. Boehmer provided legal and policy advice for several Illinois criminal justice technology efforts, including the Illinois Integrated Justice Information System (IIJIS), the Authority’s Police Information Management System (PIMS), Area-Wide Law Enforcement Radio Terminal System (ALERTS), and InfoNet, a Web-based data collection system used by victim service providers throughout Illinois. Mr. Boehmer has made significant contributions to the IIJIS initiative since its inception. Mr. Boehmer previously served as a member of the IIJIS Policy and Planning Committee, where he assisted in developing the IIJIS Strategic Plan and the Scenario for Information Sharing in Illinois. Mr. Boehmer served as chair of the IIJIS Privacy Policy Subcommittee, which, under his leadership, developed several products, including Privacy Issues Confronting the Sharing of Justice Information in an Integrated Justice Environment and Privacy Policy Guidance for Illinois Integrated Justice Information Systems, Volume 1. The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (GPIQWG) used the experience of Illinois’ Privacy Policy Subcommittee and associated materials to inform its discussions and recommendations.
As former chair of GPIQWG, Mr. Boehmer facilitated the development of the Privacy Policy Development Guide and Implementation Templates and an information quality fact sheet titled Information Quality: The Foundation for Justice Decision Making. Mr. Boehmer is currently Chair of the Global Advisory Committee, elected in fall 2006, and a member of Global’s Executive Steering Committee.
Mr. Boehmer is a regional representative to the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) Advisory Council, member of the NCJA Board of Directors, and NCJA representative on Global. Prior to coming to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority in 1987, Mr. Boehmer was a Chicago police officer. Mr. Boehmer received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University in Illinois.
Robert Boehmer
Director
Institute for Public Safety Partnerships
University of Illinois at Chicago
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