| Scenario |
While attending a social event, the Sheriff of Smith
County, Idaho overhears a construction company owner, John England,
boast to
another guest that he paid a school superintendent $5,000 to obtain
a contract to re-roof the county's high school. The sheriff calls the
Idaho
State Police to report the incident.
The state police assign an investigation
team to the case. When members of the team complete reports on the
case, they submit them to N DEx and
limit the ability of N DEx to share the reports by setting the appropriate
record attributes, restricting access only to team members. A week
later, England approaches a deputy with the Smith County Sheriff’s
Office and convinces the deputy to search the agency’s records
for his name or the superintendent’s name. The deputy searches
N DEx for the contractor’s name and the superintendent’s
name. The system returns no responses. However, the system notifies
the Idaho
State Police of the search. |