Sorry for the question, but what is Rap back?
RAPBACK is part of NGI.
This new system, the Next Generation Identification (NGI), provides the criminal justice community
with the world’s largest and most efficient electronic repository of biometric and criminal history
information.
https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/fingerprints-and-other-biometrics/ngiIt will replace AFIS, the world-s largest person-centric database of fingerprints and other biometrics. "The IAFIS provided automated tenprint and latent fingerprint searches, electronic image storage, electronic exchanges of fingerprints and responses, as well as text-based searches based on descriptive information."
NGI rolls up the capabilities of:
- Advanced Fingerprint Identification Technology (AFIT)
- Repository for Individuals of Special Concern (RISC)
- Latent and Palm Prints
- Rap Back
- Interstate Photo System
- Facial Recognition Search
- Cold Case/Unknown Deceased
- Iris Pilot
Rap Back is in general terms a "rolling background check system." It's original intent was to track high risk professionals -- people in positions of authority or where criminal behavior would do grave damage or injury. Examples are school teachers, daycare workers and police officers. Even if/though a background check is run preemployment, it was too easy for such an individual to commit a crime in another state and never have the information relayed to authorities in the person's state of residence. Also, being registered as a sexual predator/offender in one state might not appear in a different state's or FBI's background check.
Rap Back is supposed to not only consolidate pertinent information from all local, state and federal sources in one searchable database, it's also supposed to be updated if something pertinent is entered in any of those sources and reported to subscribing agencies.
The system is relatively new, and any state agency subscribing to it must pay for reporting access, or be a "special" agency which can access it for no fee.
The other requirement is that the state must support its own criminal database for local reports, and that system subscribes to Rap Back. Just like email that travels from server to server until it reaches the recipient, the information on a teacher, for example, gets updated from another state and winds its way to the teacher's place of residence. It goes to the Hawaii criminal justice data system. That system in turn notifies the department of education, the school they work for, and/or any other subscribed agency. No need to wait for a court case to learn of law enforcement interaction. Just being interviewed as a suspect will be reported to Rap Back and eventually to your employer.
Enter the gun control state of Hawaii. They decided that gun owners are just as potentially dangerous as bad Cops, pedophiles and daycare workers who traffic in drugs. If any report comes across Rap Back, and then the HI system, it might be enough to strip you of your guns even though you passed the permit background check a week before. Let's say your spouse in another state is fighting for sole custody of your children. She gets mad and files a domestic abuse report in her state even though you were nowhere near. That report goes to HPD via Rap Back, and viola!! They now have cause to relieve you of those dangerous weapons! Pre-Rap-Back, unless someone directly contacted HPD from the other state's law enforcement or DA, you'd be okay with your guns until a judge says you're guilty of domestic abuse.
The kicker: Hawaii has been collecting Rap Back subscription costs from gun owners even though the state's criminal justice data system is NOT enrolled in Rap Back! We'd been connected to it in the beginning stages as one of a few states willing to beta test Rap Back. But I don't think we ever progressed to fully operational.
Those are the basics from what I know. If anyone has updates regarding Hawaii's connections to Rap Back or not can fill in the details for me.