While reading a few various news stories about new appointments related to security, I started wondering about the feasibiliy of XML markup languages in the legal and law enforcement communities.

During which I found an article on XML.com related
XML helping to write the law?. This lead to reference to the Legal XML site which is involved in "standards for electronic ecxhange of legal data."

This also lead me to a number of items relating to some existing relating to efforts. I found another reference to Global Justice XML Data model (GJXDM) (and FAQ) hosted on the Office of Justice - IT site, led by the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative, which may provide some additional means of finding a common solution to some of the problems in the law enforcement community.

Another interesting document is on the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan.

It seems like these types of initatives would be beneficial in improving sharing in the law enforcement community.