Orlando Bowman is Program Supervisor for the Information Management Section, Navajo Nation Department of Law Enforcement, in Window Rock, Navajo Nation (Arizona). He has been in the justice field for about 17 years.

Q. What types of justice information sharing activities are you involved in? A. The sharing of law enforcement data is primarily with tribal, county, regional, state, and federal organizations. Shared information is on various levels of technical applications and specific data such as Statistical Data, Criminal History, Fingerprints, and Law Enforcement Reports. My involvement spans a variation of detail, with the actual research, training aspects, assignments to section personnel, and managing of projects. Detail reports are provided to hierarchy, various committees, and our Navajo Nation Council.

Q. Are you involved with any state/local/national boards/committees/councils that support justice information sharing? A. I'm involved in various groups within the tribal structure which coordinate and collaborate with organizations outside of the Navajo Nation. These groups include: Navajo Nation (NN) Integrated Criminal Justice Project, NN Sex Offender Registry Project, NN Advisory Board Against Domestic Violence, NN Information Technology Policy Committee-NDIT, NN Motor Vehicle Crash Data Advisory Group, Dine' Meth Coalition, Arizona Automated Fingerprint Identification System-AZDPS, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police-Technical Advisory Blue Ribbon Committee.

Q. What are you most excited about in the field of justice information sharing? A. The technology aspects; the vision in the future, where Native American tribes can share information with each other from the law enforcement perspective.

Q. How are your justice information sharing activities funded? A. Primarily with federal assistance and NN general resources. We are seeing a more collaborative approach to address cost-sharing, especially with infrastructure issues which provide the foundation of today's communication objectives.

Q. Tell us something about yourself. A. I'm involved in community activities directly or indirectly. As you age in wisdom, family-oriented issues are paramount. I am pretty much involved in all types of outdoor and indoor sports, coaching our youth, running, and seriously considering a political future beginning with our Navajo Nation council.