Criminal History Systems Board (CHSB)

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Criminal History Systems Board (CHSB)

This is the group gun owners are lumped in with:
"# CHSB Mission Statement
To reduce criminal and terrorist activities by providing the ability to share timely and relevant criminal justice information and services to law enforcement, criminal justice, non-criminal justice entities, and the general public.
# CHSB History
Created in 1972 by the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Act, the CHSB is the state agency responsible for maintaining the law enforcement telecommunications network known as the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) and the processing and dissemination of Massachusetts criminal background checks for non-criminal justice entities. Additionally, the agency maintains firearms licensing and gun sale registration data and provides assistance to individuals and families that are victims of crime. "
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Related Links
* Administrative Office of Massachusetts Trial Court
* Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board
* Massachusetts State Police - State Identifcation Section
* Federal Bureau of Investigation - CJIS Division
* Nlets
* SEARCH - The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics
* Massachusetts State Police - Crime Reporting Unit
* Massachusetts Department of Corrections
* Massachusetts Parole Board
* Massachusetts Attorney General
* Massachusetts District Attorneys Association
* Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association
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Programs & Services

* Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)
* Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Services
* Firearms Support Services
* Victim Services
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What led me to all this was my searching on google for the GCAB (Gun Control Advisory Board), which seems elusive. Do they HAVE a GCAB web site?
 
No surprises there, at least to some of us.

No GCAB has no website. They are appointed by the Governor, report to EOPS (Secretary of Public Safety to be specific). So likely any mention of them would happen on an EOPS website.

They are strictly an advisory group, EOPS is perfectly within their rights to ignore them, which I understand that Flynn did quite successfully during his reign as Secretary of Public Safety.
 
Website? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

They don't even have a schedule, agenda, or regular meetings. Ron calls up people 9pm the night before the meeting and tells them. Those that can't make it for whatever reason are SOL. Never guess who usualy can and can't make it. Real Unbiased Board.

No idea what's up with Ron Glidden. Used to think he was one of us, but his running of the board has been very wierd lately.

Onlt two seats are not appointed by the Governor. The GOAL seat, and the one on the other side (I forget which organization holds it) Every other member sits there by the whim of the Governor.

From what I understand, it's mostly been a rubber stamp group to approve the guns for the EOPS list. However, it can make ANY recommendations, so it's important to keep an eye on what they do. Imagine the group publishing a report that says all private guns are dangerous and fill it with all kinds of bogus statistics to that fact. Then the legislature repeals Chapter 140 section 131 based on the report and when the dust settles, the legislature can all go "gee, we just listened to the experts".

Always felt like this group was a political setup from the start. Sort of like the Rail Trail group in Weston who published an incredibly skewed report on the impact of a rail trail and was the reason the project to build a multi-purpose trail from Berlin to Waltham was pretty much shelved. Course, the group was made up of mostly abbutters who were very NIMBY.

Anyway, the GCAB is to be watched carefully.
 
Chris,

Unless you know something else as FACT!

GCAB last I knew meets on the 3rd Friday each month at MSP HQ in Framingham (9 or 10AM).

GOAL President and BATFE agent are two members that I know of by statute that are not appointed by Governor.

Yes, they are a rubber stamp for the test lab results to approval for inclusion in the EOPS handgun list.

Last few years (during Flynn's reign) every attempt to create a CMR to clarify the law has been DOA on Flynn's desk. This has had to have an effect on Ron Glidden's attitude regarding trying to get things accomplished.

New Sec of Public Safety is an "unknown" wrt how he'll work well with others. He was an under-secretary previously, but that only means that he had to take orders from above. Now that he gives the orders, nobody seems to know how it will be to work with him.
 
LenS said:
...New Sec of Public Safety is an "unknown" wrt how he'll work well with others. He was an under-secretary previously, but that only means that he had to take orders from above. Now that he gives the orders, nobody seems to know how it will be to work with him.
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How new is he? Why don't we know yet? Did he just start? How do these people get in, by election or appointment? How do we put the spotlight on them?
 
Appointment. You need to check the news releases from the Gov's office . . . or ask Ron Glidden (which is how I found out).

When Flynn was sworn in in Springfield, on or about that date, the new guy was appointed by the Gov.

Check the MA Gov website for how the state gov works . . . assuming that they actually post that kind of info there (don't know, never looked).
 
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