# Federated Incident-Data Sharing **Federated incident-data sharing** is the architecture ACIN describes: participating agencies connect records-management systems for cross-jurisdiction investigative use while retaining ownership and control of their contributed data. ACIN calls itself a "shared investigative support environment - not a centralized ownership system" ([[ACIN Privacy and Security Overview 2026-05-15]], p. 2). ## How it appears in the corpus - ACIN says it connects participating RMS platforms in a cloud environment ([[ACIN Executive Overview 2026-05-15]], p. 1, "connects participating Records Management Systems (RMS)"). - It says agencies can share and analyze incident-report information "in near real time" ([[ACIN Executive Overview 2026-05-15]], p. 2). - ACIN describes the shared content as incident-report information and related criminal-justice data authorized by participating agencies ([[ACIN FAQ 2026-05-15]], p. 1, "incident-report information and related criminal justice data authorized by participating agencies"). - Originating agencies are said to retain ownership and release control ([[ACIN Privacy and Security Overview 2026-05-15]], p. 2, "Participating agencies retain ownership and control"). ## Stakeholders - [[Arkansas Criminal Intelligence Network]] - Participating agencies, whose roster is not included in the first batch. - [[ACIN Oversight and Governance Board]] - [[Amazon Web Services]], the named hosting environment. ## Notes "Federated" here describes ACIN's ownership-and-integration claim. Without schemas, agreements, technical diagrams, retention rules, or access exports, the batch does not establish where data is copied, indexed, cached, retained, or queried in practice.