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Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR)

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Fact Sheet: Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Analysis and Recommendations Report for the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI)

This fact sheet provides a brief background on the NSI and a description of the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties framework. It also lists highlights and observations and details recommendations for NSI implementation.

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Updated Privacy Policy Review Process

This document details the new privacy policy review process. It has been recently modified to support fusion centers and expedite the finalization of their privacy policies.

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Suspicious Activity Reporting Indicators and Behaviors

This tool for analysts and investigators details potential criminal or noncriminal activities requiring additional information during the vetting process or investigation, as well as defined criminal activity and potential terrorism nexus activity. When the activity involves behavior that may be lawful or is a constitutionally protected activity, the investigating law enforcement agency will carefully assess the information and gather as much information as possible before taking any action, including documenting and validating the information as terrorism-related and sharing it with other law enforcement agencies.

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Suspicious Activity Reporting Indicators and Examples: Tools for Analysts and Investigators

This resource provides the 16 ISE-SAR indicators, their respective definitions, and examples of suspicious activity scenarios that correlate with each of the indicators.

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Unified Message

This Unified Message document was created to help clarify a unified approach to the process of reporting and sharing information related to suspicious activity.

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NSI Privacy Fact Sheet

This fact sheet provides an overview of the various components of the NSI Privacy Protection Framework, which is an integral element to the protection of privacy throughout the SAR process and to the overall success of the NSI.

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Building Community Partnerships

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Building Community Partnerships (BCP) initiative, which was established to assist fusion centers and law enforcement agencies in engaging with and developing productive relationships with the critical sector and community stakeholders they serve to enable partnerships in the protection of critical infrastructure and the prevention of crime and terrorism.

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Suspicious Activity Reporting Process Implementation Checklist

Provides a simplified checklist for chief executives and senior leadership to implement a SAR process within their agencies.

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10 Ways to Integrate SAR Into Your Agency’s Operations

This document provides a brief overview of ten strategies that can be implemented by any agency to allow for the timely sharing of SAR information and to integrate the SAR process into its own operations.

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State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT®) Program Terrorism Incidents Database Overview

Provides an overview of the SLATT database, which allows users to track terrorism trends, identify areas of high activity, and match terrorism pre-incident indicators against similar cases, both past and present.