The other computer system is the Automated Caseload and Collections System (ACCSYS). This is a comprehensive case management system that contains detailed information on individual civil and criminal cases, including the reasons why a complaint was declined, i.e., no jurisdiction, lack of evidence, unknown subject, referred to state or local agency, juvenile offender, age of presented matter, pre-trial diversion, search/arrest problems, other legal problems or other reasons for declining.

ACCSYS is an on-line system which supports data entry and retrieval terminals in the U.S. Attorney's office. The data processing is performed at the Justice Data Center. ACCSYS is installed on a pilot basis in three U.S. Attorney offices (Chicago, Seattle and Phoenix/Tuscon) and is being evaluated now for its managerial support benefits to these offices and potential installation in other offices. The present expansion plans for ACCSYS are intentionally projected at a slow rate to insure that each installation will have a minimally disruptive impact on the U.S. Attorney's offices. If the rate of installation were accelerated more people would be required to assist the offices in their conversions to this automated system. The Department prefers to adhere to the present methodical approach which provides structured managerial control over the installation process. It is also possible that ACCSYS is not a practical system to use in all U.S. Attorney offices, especially the smaller ones. It is possible that a refined version of the Docket and Reporting system which would include statistical data comparable to that provided by ACCS YS may be ultimately used by some U.S. Attorney offices that are not large enough to require the total ACCSYS package.

The U.S. Attorneys' budgeted costs for automated litigation management support for FY 1978 including ACCSYS are $1,340,000. This figure includes the system's developmental costs as well as the cost of operating it in the U.S. Attorneys' offices where it is now installed. The incremental costs involved with expanding ACCSYS to additional offices would be approximately $10,000 to $20,000 per office annually. The figures will vary from office to office depending on the workload volume in the individual office. This does not include one-time installation costs that would be incurred if the rate of installation to additional offices were substantially accelerated. All of the costs mentioned above would be included in the U.S. Attorneys' budget.

APPENDIX 13

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE JUSTIFICATION AND RATIONALE FOR THE RANKING OF PROGRAM PRIORITIES IN THE FBI

The Committee should be aware that the program priority ranking provided on page 94 of the FBI's FY 1979 authorization request reflects the order in which the minimum level FBI decision packages appeared in the Department's overall zero base budget decision package ranking provided to the Office of Management and Budget.

The Foreign Counterintelligence Investigations and Assets program is ranked first because the Department believes the treat posed by the operation of hostile foreign intelligence services in the United States must be countered by the Federal Government. The Nation's political, military and economic intentions and plans must be protected to allow the Nation's leadership the ability to consider all options available to secure the national welfare. The FBI has the lead responsibility to engage in foreign counterintelligence investigations because no State or local law enforcement agency has the responsibility or expertise to deal with the threat posed by operations of hostile foreign intelligence services in the United States.

The next four programs include the Organized Crime and White-Collar Crime programs in which the Federal Government can make a unique contribution against these more sophisticated crimes, the Civil Rights program in which the Federal Government must act to secure the rights of each citizen through enforcement of the civil rights laws of the United States, and the Other General Crimes program in which the Federal Government investigates crimes against Government property or on Government reservations. At times, these crimes involve violence and physical harm. The Organized Crime and White-Collar Crime programs involve significant Presidential and Attorney General backed initiatives. The programs ranked sixth through ninth, i.e., Executive Direction and Control, Administrative Services, Investigative Records and Communications, and

Fingerprint Identification, represent the major investigative and administrative support programs which allow the FBI to function as an organizational entity. Specifically, these programs allow for internal policy making, guidance and control (Executive Direction and Control), and the conduct of such essential administrative services as producing the FBI payroll, providing essential personnel services, managing space, procuring equipment and supplies, and maintaining management information systems (Administrative Services). The Investigative Records and Communications program maintains the lifeblood of the FBI as an ongoing operation, i.e., its records, general index and message communications systems. Although the Fingerprint Identification program primarily supports State and local enforcement agencies, its support to FBI field investigative programs and to other Federal agencies is an important link in the identification of persons engaged in criminal activities.

The tenth ranked program, i.e., Civil, Applicant and Other Investigations, is ranked relatively high due to the protection of Federal Government interests either as a plaintiff or as a defendant in civil cases. It is the civil investigations portion of the program that placed the program relatively high in the overall ranking of FBI programs.

The 11th and 12th programs in the ranking involve additional direct support programs to FBI field investigative programs, i.e., training of FBI personnel and forensic laboratory support of FBI investigations.

The 13th through 15th ranked program priorities are drawn from what the FBI refers to as its Priority II and Priority III level investigative programs. The attached chart displays the current way the FBI generally describes its investigative priorities. The Department's ranking of these three programs reflect the Administration's judgment that marginal investigative activities are contained in these programs relative to the investigative programs which appear in the upper half of the overall FBI ranking. These programs represent investigative areas where fewer resources should be devoted compared to the level of effort devoted to the programs in past year; reductions are proposed in each of the three programs for FY 1979.

The 16th ranked program, Coordination of Investigations, represents the Headquarters investigative divisions' management structure. The Department's view is that the field investigative programs, the direct support programs, essential Headquarters executive direction and control, and administrative services were more vital than the Headquarters divisional management overhead. The Department made the judgment that the Headquarters coordination of Federal investigations was more important than the bulk of State and local assistance programs which are ranked below it.

The 17th ranked program, Domestic Security and Terrorism, represents the one field program which has had the most rapid recent drop in caseload compared to the situation of several years ago. The attached FBI chart also reflects the FBI's judgment that the Domestic Security and Terrorism program is ranked in the Priority III level of overall field investigative program priority. The program's rank reflects the realization that investigative activity is still present though less than in the past; therefore, pending a change in the level of domestic terrorism, this program is recommended for staffing at a maintenance level. It also reflects the judgment that domestic terrorists do not pose a significant threat in terms of over-throwing our Government, rather, they pose as a harassment factor in trying to achieve their political ends.

Except for the Legal Attaches program, four of the last five ranked programs represent FBI assistance to State and local law enforcement agencies. The Department believes that the Federal related programs of the FBI must be ranked in importance over the corollary activities of assistance to State and local governments. Remembering that the rankings represent the minimum level of funding for these programs, the Department-were its resources so restricted-would maintain its Federal responsibilities at the expense of assistance to State and local governments.

The Legal Attaches, of all the Federal related FBI programs, was viewed the least vital. The Legal Attache program has been one that the FBI itself has cut back from some 17 overseas offices a few years ago to 13 at the present time. The Department was in agreement fully with the FBI on the ranking assigned to this program.