The Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center is created within the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security and codified into state law to improve intelligence sharing among public safety and public service agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. The role of the KIFC is to compile, blend, analyze, and disseminate criminal intelligence and other information, and to anticipate, identify, prevent, and monitor criminal activity that may pose a threat to the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the nation.
About the Fusion Center
Formed in 2005 and codified in statute in 2013, the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center (KIFC) serves as the Commonwealth's hub for sharing threat information and fostering collaboration to address threats. KIFC's core is its team of criminal intelligence analysts from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security. KIFC's mission is to receive, analyze, gather, and appropriately disseminate all-source information and intelligence regarding terrorist and criminal activities and other threats to the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the nation by:
- Serving as the state's single fusion center providing analytical support to address all hazards and all crimes
- Assessing and integrating disparate pieces of information to identify trends, patterns, and emerging risks and threats in order to provide useful insights to decisionmakers for security and public safety issues
- Analyzing specific events and incidents and providing investigative and operational support
- Performing threat assessment and information management services, including supporting protection of critical infrastructure and key resources
- Following fair information practices to ensure the privacy and civil rights and liberties of citizens
KIFC is networked to all 80 fusion centers in the United States, thereby providing Kentucky law enforcement and first responders, and the communities they serve, relevant and timely information and intelligence based on incidents and/or emergency events that take place regionally, nationally, and globally. This enables KIFC the ability to inform key decision makers within hours or even minutes of events happening throughout Kentucky, the nation, or the world. In addition, KIFC is the sole state government resource that can “connect the dots" across all law enforcement and first responder disciplines to provide an accurate macro-level view of threats that affect the people and property of not only Kentucky, but also of the region and the nation. KIFC is the only entity in Kentucky state government with placement, access, and a valid need to know federal classified information. Within its secured facility, classified information and intelligence reporting from national and global sources can be accessed. KIFC consumes and analyzes this data effectively and as quickly as possible to determine if any threats or hazards exist, and to determine if any links and additional dangers to the Commonwealth exist.
KIFC's seven primary analytic priorities are:
- Counterterrorism
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Disaster Preparedness / Emergency Response
- Cybersecurity
- Organized Crime
- School Safety
- Emerging Technologies
Capabilities of the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center
- Provide all crimes and terrorism intelligence analytical services
- Supports the Joint Terrorism Task Force with counter-terrorism analysts
- Assists all federal, state, and local law enforcement with their request for information on suspects by utilizing available databases
- Assist law enforcement in the location of subjects
- Serves as the conduit for law enforcement’s request for information from other state fusion centers
- Serves as a repository for the state’s identified critical infrastructures.
- Receives statewide all crimes tips through a toll-free EYE-ON-KY hotline at 1-866-393-6659 and/or website submission
- Connected to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Information Network, which is an intelligence- and information-sharing network
- Connected to the FBI Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP), which is an intelligence- and information-sharing network
- Connected to the Regional Organized Crime Information Center, which is an intelligence- and information-sharing network for 14 southeastern states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Receives intelligence briefings from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security
- Limited linguistic support
- Monitors the 24-hour news channels for situational awareness
- Monitors the National Weather Service
- Monitors sensitive material convoy while traveling through the state
- Monitors Emergency Operations Center incidents
- Conduct risk and vulnerability assessments for critical infrastructure
Privacy Policy
Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center privacy policy information:
2015 KIFC PRIVACY POLICY.pdf
KIFC Redress.pdf
For more information, please contact the KIFC Privacy Officer at:
fusioncenter@ky.gov
(502) 564-2081