Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network (MCIN)
Overview
Description
The Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network (MCIN) program is envisioned as a coalition of criminal justice agencies that collaborates and coordinates tactics, resources, and intelligence through comprehensive data sharing, cross-jurisdictional partnerships, effective policies, and supporting technologies.
MCIN focuses on identifying, disrupting, and dismantling gangs and violent criminal networks involved in the distribution of illegal drugs, the use of firearms in crimes of violence, human trafficking, or other inherently violent criminal enterprises, through enforcement, prevention, intervention, and information sharing. MCIN seeks to reduce violent crime by facilitating the formation of information technology-enabled partnerships that lead to the improved investigation and prosecution of violent criminals and their networks.
This funding shall be used to improve intelligence infrastructure and support strategies for collecting information that lead to investigations that identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal networks, to employ subject matter experts trained to investigate such networks, and/or pay for expert prosecutors to prosecute these cases at the federal and state levels.
History
In December 2017, Governor Larry Hogan announced a series of initiatives to combat criminal gang enterprises and repeat violent offenders responsible for terrorizing Maryland citizens and participating in violent crime throughout the state.
The Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network (MCIN) is a criminal justice strategy, coordinated at the local, state, and federal levels targeting gangs, drug, firearms and human trafficking. MCIN is particularly focused on those criminal networks that are impacting multiple jurisdictions and accomplishes this by sharing information across borders. It is a key element of Maryland’s public safety strategy and provides the basis for data-driven decision making both operationally and for policy development.
SFY 2027 - Funding Opportunity (MCIN-ODAC)
- Training/Technical Assistance
- Date/Time: April 21, 2026 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/tja-aqow-ohs
- Call-in number: +1 980-999-2742
- PIN: 510 221 842#
- Application Deadline: May 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m.
Categories funded
Eligible to apply
Documents
Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA)
Additional Documents
- FY 27 MCIN NOFA TA Call Slides - PDF - 529.03 KB
- FY26 Managing Your MCIN-ODAC Award Slides - PDF - 453.82 KB