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This is an announcement of a meeting of DOJ's Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Federal Advisory Committee (GAC) to discuss the Global Initiative, as described at https:// www.it.ojp.gov/global.

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announces that the Review Panel on Prison Rape (Panel) will hold a hearing in Culpeper, Virginia on November 14, 2008. The hearing time and location are noted below.The purpose of the hearing is to assist the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in identifying common characteristics of victims and perpetrators of rape in county jails, and the characteristics of U.S. jails with the highest and lowest incidence of rape, based on an anonymous survey by BJS of inmates in a representative sample of jails. On June 25, 2008, BJS issued the report Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2007. The report provides a listing of local jails grouped according to the prevalence of reported sexual victimization, and it formed the basis of the Panel's decision about which facilities would be the subject of testimony.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is announcing the fall meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ), which will be held in San Diego, CA October 19-21, 2008. Dates and Locations: The meeting will be held at the Courtyard Marriot San Diego-Old Town, 2345 Jefferson Street, San Diego, CA 92110 at the following times: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4 to 5:15 p.m,; Monday, October 20, 2008, 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and 1:45 to 5:30 p.m; and Tuesday, October 20, 2008; 8 to 11 a.m.. The meeting is open to the public. On Sunday, October 19th, there will be a meeting of the FACJJ steering sub-committee from 5:30 to 8 p.m. that will be open to the public. However, the FACJJ sub-committee and work group meetings scheduled for Sunday, October 19, 2008 from 3 to 4 p.m. and on Monday, October 20, 2008 from 12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m are closed to the public.

This is an announcement of a meeting of DOJ's Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Federal Advisory Committee (GAC) to discuss the Global Initiative, as described at https:// www.it.ojp.gov/global.

In an effort to obtain comments from interested parties, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice will make available to the general public two draft documents: (1) A draft standard entitled, ``CBRN Protective Ensemble Standard for Law Enforcement'' and (2) a draft companion document entitled, ``NIJ CBRN Protective Ensemble Certification Program Requirements''. The opportunity to provide comments on these two documents is open to industry technical representatives, public safety agencies and organizations, research, development and scientific communities, and all other stakeholders and interested parties. Those individuals wishing to provide comments on the draft documents under consideration are directed to the following Web site: https://www.justnet.org.

The Office of Justice Programs is publishing this proposed rule to amend its regulations that govern the operating policies of criminal intelligence systems that receive federal funding under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended (``Crime Control Act''). The regulations were issued pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 3789(g), which requires that ``criminal intelligence systems'' receiving Crime Control Act support must collect, maintain, and disseminate criminal intelligence information ``in conformance with policy standards which are prescribed by the Office of Justice Programs.'' The statute specifies that the policy standards must be written to assure that the funding and operation of the systems further the purpose of the funding provisions and assure that such systems ``are not utilized in violation of the privacy and constitutional rights of individuals.'' The existing regulations were last revised in 1993 and the purpose of the revisions proposed in this document is to clarify and update the regulations in light of the new, post-9/11 information sharing environment and investigative policies aimed at preventing terrorism.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is announcing the Spring meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ), which will be held in Washington, DC, April 6 to 8, 2008. Dates and Locations: The meeting times and locations are as follows: 1. Sunday, April 6, 2008, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW., Washington, DC 20005. 2. Monday, April 7, 2008, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Office of Justice Programs, 810 Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531. 3. Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Office of Justice Programs, 810 Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531.