The Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
Audit Report 06-13
March 2006
Office of the Inspector General
Appendix X
OIG Survey to Law Enforcement
The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, is reviewing the progress of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the telecommunications industry in implementing the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA). The purpose of CALEA was to ensure that law enforcement could continue to conduct lawful electronic surveillance in the face of rapidly changing technology. As part of this review, we are asking law enforcement personnel to complete the following survey about their use of electronic surveillance, and identify any problems they experienced with telecommunication carriers.
Please fax your completed survey to the
attention of the CALEA Audit Team at
(202) 616-4581 by April 8, 2005.
Please contact the members of the CALEA Audit Team at (202) 353 1721 or at (202) 616 3685, if you have any questions. If your division does not conduct electronic surveillance, please forward this survey to the appropriate official. If the official completing this survey is other than listed on the label below, please provide the correct information in the space provided. We appreciate your cooperation and prompt responses.
Did your agency conduct any wiretaps, pen registers, or traps and traces during calendar year 2004?
Yes No Don’t Know
If your agency did not conduct any electronic surveillance during 2004, please indicate the reason(s) why:
Yes
No
Don’t Know
Not necessary
Could not afford
Carrier unable to conduct intercepts
Don’t know how to conduct
Other
_________________________________________________
(If your agency does not conduct electronic surveillance, stop here. Please
fax only this page to the CALEA Audit Team at (202) 616-4581.)
How many electronic surveillances did your agency conduct in 2004?
wiretaps
_____
pen registers
_____
traps and traces
_____
Does your agency:
own a wire room
own a wire room in conjunction with another agency
use a wire room maintained by another agency
Other_____________________________________
If your agency does not own a wire room, why?
Yes
No
Don’t Know
Cost of equipment
Cost charged by carriers
Cost of manpower to monitor
Other
_________________________________________________
If your agency owns a wire room, how many simultaneous intercepts can this equipment handle?
___________________________________________________
Is this capacity sufficient for your agency’s needs?
Yes No Don’t Know
Who was the vendor for the equipment in your wire room? ____________________
During which calendar year did your agency purchase this equipment? ___________
How much did your agency originally pay for this equipment?
___________________________________________________________________
What was the total cost your agency paid to carriers for electronic surveillances started during calendar year 2004? _______________________________________
How much does your agency pay carriers to conduct a single electronic surveillance without CALEA features? _______________________________________________
Is the number of electronic surveillances your agency conducts hindered by any of the following?
Yes
No
Don’t Know
Cost charged by carriers
Cost to purchase equipment
Cost of equipment maintenance
Other
_________________________________________________
Has your agency encountered any of the following problems with carriers?
Yes
No
Don’t Know
Unable to conduct intercept
Data provided in unreadable format
Data not provided timely
Unresponsive to requests for help
Lacked technical expertise
Other
_________________________________________________
Does your agency use any of the following CALEA features?
Yes
No
Don’t Know
Content of conference call
Identification of parties of multiparty call
Access to all dialing and signaling information
Notification of ringing or busy signal
Timing information
Dialed-digit extraction
Cell site location information
Other
_________________________________________________
Do the following emerging technologies negatively affect your agency’s ability to conduct electronic surveillances?
Yes
No
Don’t Know
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Pre-paid cell phones
Pre-paid calling cards
Telephony over Broadband (Cable)
Text messaging
PDAs (Blackberry)
Push-to-talk
Camera phones
Other
_________________________________________________
Have you contacted the FBI’s CALEA Implementation Unit (CIU) or Engineering Research Facility (ERF) to obtain assistance regarding electronic surveillance?
Yes No Don’t Know
(If you answered No or Don’t Know, please stop here)
Have you received any of the following in relation to electronic surveillance from the FBI?
Training Hardware Software Ad hoc solutions Don’t know
None Other ________________________________
Are you satisfied with the assistance provided by the FBI’s CIU or ERF? If No, please discuss on a separate page the areas where the FBI can provide better assistance.