Guide to Understanding Criminal History Record Check Information
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COMMONLY USED ACRONYMS
AFIS – Automated Fingerprint Identification System
This is a computer-based system for reading,
cataloguing, and matching fingerprint images.
AWA/AWV – Adam Walsh Act
The Adam Walsh Act allows private schools and private
social service agencies with child protection
responsibilities to obtain fingerprint-based national
criminal history record information from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for employees and
volunteers.
BOI – Bureau of Identification
The Bureau of Identification is the central repository for
criminal history record information for the state of Illinois.
CHRI – Criminal History Record Information
All Criminal History Record Information about an
individual that is required to be reported to the Illinois
State Police pursuant to the Criminal Identification Act.
CJIS – Criminal Justice Information System
The Federal repository of criminal history record
information.
CSAOD
Acronym for inchoate offence codes Conspiracy,
Solicitation, Attempt, Substantive Offense (O), and Drug
Conspiracy.
DCN - Document Control Number
The Document Control Number is a pre-printed number
located at the top left hand corner of a request forms.
DOB - Date of Birth
The date of an individual’s birth.
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
The investigative arm of the US Department of Justice.
FEAPP - Fee Applicant Fingerprint Card
Fingerprint card submitted to the BOI by a non-criminal
justice agency which has executed the appropriate
contractual agreement with the Illinois State Police for
the purpose of doing a criminal history record
information check for a fee.
FOID - Firearms Owner Identification
An identifying number issued by the Firearm Services
Bureau in order to regulate the purchase and sale of
firearms.
IDOC # - Illinois Department of Corrections
An identifying number issued to an individual assigned
to the Department of Corrections.
INS # - Immigration and Naturalization Service
An identifying number assigned by the Department of
Immigration and Naturalization in order to regulate
registered immigrants.
LEADS - Law Enforcement Agency Data System
The Law Enforcement Agency Data System is used by
criminal justice agencies to access criminal history and
officer safety data.
NCIC - National Crime Information Center
A nationwide information center dedicated to serve and
support local, state and federal criminal justice
agencies.
NCP/VCA – National Child Protection/Volunteers for
Children Act
The National Child Protection Act (NCPA), as amended
by the Volunteers for Children’s Act (VCA), specifically
authorizes the Federal Bureau of Investigation to
provide fingerprint-based national criminal history record
information to qualified private entities having
unsupervised access to children, the elderly and people
with disabilities.
ORI - Originating Requester Identification
The Originating Requester identification number is a
number assigned to users that have signed a user
agreement to obtain criminal history record information.
SID - State Identification Number
The State Identification Number is eight digits in length
with the last number being 0 (zero) or 1 (one). This
number is used to uniquely identify individuals by
fingerprint data.
TCN - Transaction Control Number
The Transaction Control Number is a number located in
the top right hand corner of forms submitted to the BOI
for the purpose of reporting or requesting criminal
history record information. This number is used in
tracking the status of the request.
UCIA - Uniform Conviction Information Act
The Uniform Conviction Information Act is a law enacted
on January 1, 1991 mandating that all criminal history
record conviction information collected and maintained