(1) The board shall have the following powers and duties related to integration of justice information:

     (a) Meet at such times and places as may be designated by the chair or by three voting members of the board;

     (b) Adopt its own bylaws, and such other rules governing the board and the conduct of its meetings as the board may deem reasonable or convenient;

     (c) Coordinate and facilitate the governance, implementation, operation, maintenance, and enhancement of sharing and integrated delivery of complete, accurate, and timely justice information;

     (d) Increase the use of automated electronic data transfer among state justice agencies, local justice agencies, and courts;

     (e) Establish and implement uniform data standards and protocols for data transfer and sharing, interface applications, and connectivity standards;

     (f) Provide state agency and court justice information to criminal justice agencies and courts through connections and applications that enable single session access from multiple platforms;

     (g) Pursue, develop, and coordinate grants and other funding opportunities for state and local justice information projects that will expand or enhance the sharing and integrated delivery of statewide justice information;

     (h) Assess state and local agencies' projects and plans for sharing and delivery of integrated justice information, as may be requested by the agencies, the director of the office of financial management, the supreme court, or the legislature;

     (i) Assist the office of financial management with budgetary and policy review of state agency plans affecting the justice information network;

     (j) Recommend to the governor, the supreme court, and the legislature those legislative changes and appropriations needed to implement, maintain, and enhance a statewide justice information network and to assure the availability of complete, accurate, and timely justice information;

     (k) Encourage coordination, consistency, and compatibility among courts, state agency, and local agency justice information systems and projects; and

     (l) Adopt strategic and tactical planning goals and objectives that implement, maintain, and enhance sharing and integrated delivery of justice information for the state.

     (2)(a) Nothing in this section supersedes the authority of the information services board under chapter 43.105 RCW.

     (b) Nothing in this section supersedes the authority of courts, state agencies, and local agencies to control and maintain access to information within their independent systems.

[2003 c 104 § 5.]