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	18f	A group within the U.S. General Services Administration that builds digital services for government. https://18f.gsa.gov/
	432.7	California Labor Code Section 432.7, a law that describes the limits of disclosure and access by employers to the criminal records of applicants and employees. <http://law.onecle.com/california/labor/432.7.html>
	AA	Ambulance Authority
	AAP	Adoption Assistance Program or Aid for Adoption of Children program
	AB	Assembly Bill
	AB 1321	Assembly Bill 1321, a bill before the California legislature in early 2015 that would incentivize using CalFresh to purchase fresh produce. <http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article22365894.html>
	AB 71	California Assembly Bill 71, passed in 2015, requires police and sheriff’s departments to furnish information annually to the state attorney general about race and other details in use-of-force incidents. <http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB71>
	ABA	A Book Apart <http://abookapart.com/>
	ABAWD	Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents
	ABD	All But Dissertation
	ABDT	Always Be Drinking Tea :tea:
	ABI	Application Binary Interface
	AC	Air Conditioning
	ACA	Affordable Care Act
	ACCDB	A Microsoft Access database format. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access>
	ACCESS	Access Customer Service Center, a call center and extension of the County of San Diego Family Resource Centers (FRCs) that serves residents, providers, and other government agencies with questions or needs related to FRC programs and services, including providing case management services for existing FRC customers countywide.
	ACCFB	Alameda County Community Food Bank <http://www.accfb.org/>
	ACHS	Automated Criminal History System
	ACS	the American Community Survey, a demographic study conducted by the Census Bureau in non-Census-years using a sampling approach rather than a survey approach
	ACYF	Administration for Children, Youth and Families <http://www.acf.hhs.gov/>
	ADA	the American with Disabilities Act; a set of regulations regarding hiring practices, building codes, and other rules aimed at reducing discrimination towards disabled people.
	ADP	Average Daily Population, of a jail, for example.
	ADPQ	Agile Development Pre-Qualified
	ADS	Apps, Docs, Support
	AFAIK	As Far As I Know :thought_balloon:
	AFAYK	As Far As You Know
	AFDC	Aid to Families with Dependent Children, a federal assistance program in effect from 1935 to 1996 created by the Social Security Act and administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income. Replaced by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
	AFIS	Automated Fingerprint Identification System, in California, the Department of Justice's database of fingerprint data. May also refer to devices used to collect fingerprints.
	AFK	Away From Keyboard
	AG	Attorney General
	AHCD	Advance Health Care Directive
	AIO	All In Order
	AIS	Automatic Identification System, an tracking system used on ships and by vessel traffic services for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships, base stations, and satellites.
	AK	Alaska
	ALC	AIDS/LifeCycle <http://www.aidslifecycle.org/>
	AMD	Asynchronous Module Definition; a mechanism for defining JavaScript modules such that the module and its dependencies can be asynchronously loaded.
	ANT	Actor-Network Theory, an approach to social theory and research, originating in the field of science studies, which treats objects as part of social networks. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory>
	APD	Advance Planning Documents or Adult Probation Department. See SFAPD
	API	Application Programming Interface, an interface that exposes the data and functionality of an application to other applications.
	APIS	Automated Palmprint Identification System
	APP	Aid Paid Pending
	APTC	Advanced Premium Tax Credit
	AR	Authorized Representative
	ASC	Ambulatory Surgical Center
	ATF	Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
	ATI	Automated Transaction Identifier, a number that appears at the bottom of the Department of Justice form requesting Live Scan fingerprint background checks. The ATI number always appears in the following sequence: 1 LETTER; 3 NUMBERS; 3 LETTERS and 3 NUMBERS.
	ATL	Atlanta, or Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport <http://www.atlanta-airport.com/>
	ATO	Authority To Operate
	AWE	Alpha With Evaluation
	Agile	Agile Software Development, a group of software development methods in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change. Often contrasted with the Waterfall design process.
	Andon	a manufacturing term referring to a system to notify management, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem.
	BAA	Business Associate Agreement
	BALA	Bay Area Legal Aid <https://www.baylegal.org/>
	BATT	Bureaucratic Administrative Technical Thing
	BCBS	Blue Cross Blue Shield
	BCCTP	Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program
	BCIA	Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis
	BCIIS	Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigative Services
	BCW	Benefits CalWin (aka MBCW, MyBenefitsCalWin) — the online application system for food stamps for 18 California counties including San Francisco.
	BDUF	Big Design Up Front, a software development approach in which the program's design is to be completed and perfected before that program's implementation is started.
	BE	Back End
	BEAR	Business Expansion And Retention
	BIA	Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. <http://www.bia.gov/>
	BIC	Benefits Identification Card
	BJA	Bureau of Justice Assistance, a component of the Office of Justice Programs, within the United States Department of Justice that provides leadership and assistance to local criminal justice programs that improve and reinforce the nation’s criminal justice system. <https://www.bja.gov/>
	BJS	Bureau of Justice Statistics, a federal government agency belonging to the U.S. Department of Justice and a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. Established on December 27, 1979, the bureau collects, analyzes and publishes data relating to crime in the United States. <http://www.bjs.gov/>
	BLUF	Bottom Line Up Front, a paragraph where conclusions and recommendations are placed at the beginning of the text, rather than the end, in order to facilitate rapid comprehension.
	BOA	Bank Of America <https://www.bankofamerica.com/>
	BOCC	Board Of County Commissioners
	BPA	Blanket Purchase Agreement
	BRMS	Business Rule Management System
	BSCC	California Board of State and Community Corrections <http://www.bscc.ca.gov/>
	BSCH	Bon Secours Community Hospital
	BTOP	Broadband Technology Opportunity Grant - Grant given by federal government to cities aimed at closing the digital divide.
	BWC	Body-Worn Camera
	BWCS	Body Worn Camera System
	Big Iron	Big iron, as the hacker's dictionary the Jargon File defines it,"refers to large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. It is used generally for number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBM mainframes".
	C-IV	see C4
	C4	Consortium IV or C-IV, a service supporting the administration of public assistance programs in a consortium of California counties, including CalFresh, Medi-Cal, General Assistance, and Foster Care. Part of SAWS. <https://c4yourself.com/>
	C4Y	<https://c4yourself.com/>, the website for C4.
	CA	California :bear:
	CA DOJ	California Department of Justice
	CAAP	County Adult Assistance Program
	CAD	computer aided dispatch - a tool used to dispatch vehicles, including police and emergency services
	CADOJ	California Department Of Justice
	CAFB	California Association of Food Banks <http://www.cafoodbanks.org/>
	CAGE	Commercial And Government Entity. See CAGE Code.
	CAGE Code	Commercial And Government Entity Code, a unique identifier assigned to suppliers to various government or defense agencies, as well as to government agencies themselves and also various organizations. The code provides a standardized method of identifying a given facility at a specific location.
	CAHHS	California Health and Human Services Agency <http://www.chhs.ca.gov/>
	CAPI	Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants
	CASC	Community Assessment and Services Center. Parolees and probationers face many challenges and obstacles upon release from custody. Statistics show they face a high rate of recidivism without effective, immediate intervention. The CASC was created to meet these needs, and serve this population to assist them with a smooth transition back into their communities. <http://lcaservices.com/casc/>
	CAVE	Citizens Against Virtually Everything, coined by Sly James, mayor of Kansas City, MO. <https://twitter.com/JoshMoskowitz/status/612686909437972480>
	CAVU	Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited
	CBA	Cost-Benefit Analysis
	CBO	Community-Based Organization
	CBPP	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities <http://www.cbpp.org/>
	CCAoA	Child Care Aware of America <http://usa.childcareaware.org/>. Formerly known as NACCRRA, the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
	CCBF	Chicago Community Bond Fund <https://chicagobond.org/>
	CCC	Contra Costa County
	CCJCC	County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee
	CCTV	Closed-Circuit TeleVision
	CCWIS	Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems
	CD	Congressional District
	CDCR	California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation <http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/>
	CDER	Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
	CDO	Chief Data Officer
	CDPH	California Department of Public Health <http://www.cdph.ca.gov/> or Chicago Department of Public Health <http://www.cityofchicago.org/Health>
	CDSS	the California Department of Social Services. http://www.cdss.ca.gov/
	CDT	California Department of Technology
	CE	Code Enforcement, the act of enforcing a set of rules, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and ensuring observance of a system of norms or customs.
	CEA	Cost-Effectivenes Analysis, a form of economic analysis that compares the relative costs and outcomes (effects) of two or more courses of action.
	CF	CalFresh
	CFIAD	"CalFresh In A Day": a CalFresh (CA food stamp) outreach program where clients can come and apply and get approved (ideally) in the same day.
	CFO	CalFresh Outreach
	CFPA	California Food Policy Advocates, a statewide public policy and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of low-income Californians by increasing their access to nutritious, affordable food. <http://cfpa.net/>
	CFPB	Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. <http://www.consumerfinance.gov/>
	CHCF	California HealthCare Foundation <http://www.chcf.org/>
	CHHS	California Health and Human Services Agency <http://www.chhs.ca.gov/>
	CHHSA	California Health and Human Services Agency <http://www.chhs.ca.gov/>
	CHW	Community Health Worker
	CI	Continuous Integration, the practice, in software engineering, of merging all developer working copies with a shared mainline several times a day.
	CII	Criminal Investigation & Identification, a number used to identify an individual’s criminal record. CII numbers are generated from a set of fingerprints. Thus two sets of matching fingerprints would be associated with the same CII number.
	CISO	Chief Information Security Officer
	CJ	Criminal Justice or County Jail
	CJAC	Criminal Justice Advisory Council
	CJCJ	Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice <http://www.cjcj.org/>
	CJIS	Criminal Justice Information Services <https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/>
	CJS	1. Criminal Justice System 2. Criminal Justice Services, a division of the Salt Lake County Department of Human Services <http://www.slco.org/criminal-justice/>
	CLETS	California Law Enforcement Telecommunication System, provides law enforcement and criminal justice agencies access to various databases and the ability to transmit and receive point-to-point administrative messages to other agencies within California or, via the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS), to other states and Canada.
	CLEW	California Law Enforcement Web https://clew.doj.ca.gov
	CLI	Command-Line Interface, a means of interacting with a computer program where the user issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text.
	CLSEPA	Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, provides legal assistance to low-income individuals and families in East Palo Alto and the surrounding community. <http://www.clsepa.org/>
	CMC	Claremont McKenna College <http://www.cmc.edu/>
	CMIA	the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act
	CMS	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services <http://www.cms.gov/>
	CMSP	County Medical Services Program
	CNA	Certified Nursing Assistant
	CNT	Center for Neighborhood Technology <http://www.cnt.org/>
	COBOL	COmmon Business-Oriented Language
	COBRA	the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, a law passed in 1985 which gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events.
	COGCC	Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Comission <http://cogcc.state.co.us/#/home>
	COMPSTAT	COMPuter STATistics, a combination of management, philosophy, and organizational management tools for police departments. It is named after the New York City Police Department's accountability process and has since been implemented by many other police departments, both in the United States and abroad.
	COP	Community Of Practice, a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.
	COPS	Community Oriented Policing Services
	CORI	Criminal Offender Record Information PC §11075: Criminal Offender Record Information means records and data compiled by criminal justice agencies for purposes of identifying criminal offenders and maintaining as to each such offender a summary of arrests, pretrial proceedings, the nature and disposition of criminal charges, sentencing, incarceration, rehabilitation, and release
	COTS	Consumer Off-The-Shelf
	CPCO	Citizens' Police Complaint Office
	CPE	Center for Policing Equity <http://policingequity.org/>
	CPI	Center for Program Integrity
	CR-180	A Petition for Dismissal form in the state of California. If you were convicted of a felony and not sentenced to state prison, certain felony violations under California Penal Code section 17(b) may be eligible to be reduced to a misdemeanor and dismissed if you are done with probation and/or jail time. <http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/cr180.pdf> See also CR-181.
	CR-181	An Order for Dismissal form in the state of California. If you were convicted of a felony and not sentenced to state prison, certain felony violations under California Penal Code section 17(b) may be eligible to be reduced to a misdemeanor and dismissed if you are done with probation and/or jail time. <http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/cr181.pdf> See also CR-180.
	CRM	Customer Relationship Management
	CRT	Crisis Response Team
	CRUD	Create, Write, Update, Delete; the four basic functions of persistent storage.
	CSAC	California State Association of Counties <http://www.counties.org/>
	CSJ	Californians for Safety and Justice <http://www.safeandjust.org/>
	CSR	Cost Sharing Reduction
	CSRF	Cross-Site Request Forgery, a type of malicious exploit of a website whereby unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts.
	CSS	Community Services Section (of the police department). In Vallejo, deals with all non-emergency reports and organizes the Neighborhood Watch groups.
	CSV	Comma-Separated Values
	CUT	Civic User Testing. See CUT Group.
	CUT Group	Civic User Testing Group, a set of regular Chicago residents who get paid to test out civic apps. <http://www.cutgroup.org/>
	CVF	Crime Victims Fund, established by the Victims of Crime Act of 1984. The Fund is financed by fines and penalties paid by convicted federal offenders, not by tax dollars. See VOCA. <http://ojp.gov/ovc/about/victimsfund.html>
	CW 2200	In California, a form to request verification of an individual’s information from CDSS. <http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/CW2200.pdf>
	CWD	County Welfare Department
	CWDA	Child Welfare Director’s Association <http://www.cwda.org/>
	CalFresh	The CalFresh Program, federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), can add to your food budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. The program issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used to buy most foods at many markets and food stores. <http://www.calfresh.ca.gov/>
	CalHEERS	California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System
	CalVCP	the California Victim Compensation Program <http://www.vcgcb.ca.gov/victims/>
	CalWIN	CalWORKs Information Network, a service supporting the administration of public assistance programs in a consortium of California counties, including CalFresh, Medi-Cal, General Assistance, and Foster Care. Part of SAWS.
	CalWORKs	California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, a welfare program that gives cash aid and services to eligible needy California families.
	Capex	Capital Expense, incurred when a business spends money either to buy fixed assets or to add to the value of an existing fixed asset with a useful life extending beyond the taxable year
	Cas9	Crispr Associated Protein 9, an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease enzyme associated with the Crispr adaptive immunity system in Streptococcus pyogenes, among other bacteria. See also Crispr.
	Chaebol	a South Korean form of business conglomerate. They are typically global multinationals owning numerous international enterprises, controlled by a chairman who has power over all the operations. The term is often used in a context similar to that of the English word "conglomerate".
	Consortium IV	see C4
	Conway’s Law	Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. <http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html>
	Covered California	California's health benefit exchange under the ACA
	Crispr	Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, segments of prokaryotic DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences. Each repetition is followed by short segments of "spacer DNA" from previous exposures to a bacterial virus or plasmid. See also Cas9.
	D-SNAP	Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, short-term food assistance benefits to families suffering in the wake of a disaster. <http://www.fns.usda.gov/disaster/disaster-snap-guidance>
	DA	District Attorney
	DCCS	Department of Child Support Services
	DCPS	Disability Claims Processing System
	DDL	Data Definition Language or Data Description Language, a syntax similar to a computer programming language for defining data structures, especially database schemas.
	DDS	Disability Determination Services
	DFW	Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport <https://www.dfwairport.com/>
	DHCS	California Department of Health Care Services <http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/>
	DHSS	Department of Health and Social Services
	DOB	Date Of Birth
	DOBT	Department Of Better Technology <https://www.dobt.co/>
	DOJ	Department of Justice
	DP	Daily Planet, a safety-net health clinic and FQHC in Richmond
	DPC	Document Processing Center
	DPSS	Department of Public Social Services
	DRC	1. Day Reporting Center, a comprehensive service delivery program designed to address the needs of people on parole. 2. the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area. With a population of over 79 million, the DRC is the most populated Francophone country, the 4th most populated nation in Africa, and the 19th most populated country in the world.
	DRI	Directly Responsible Individual
	DRMRSPVANDERTRAMP	Devenir Revenir Monter Rester Sortir Passer Venir Aller Naître Descendre Entrer Rentrer Tomber Retourner Arriver Mourir Partir, french verbs that use être as opposed to avoir when placed into the past tense.
	DRY	Don't Repeat Yourself
	DSL	Domain-Specific Language
	DSP	In the context of California RAP Sheets, a DSP is a Disposition Only Record - an event or “cycle” that only records a disposition. These are often not accompanied by fingerprints.
	DSS	Department of Social Services; see CDSS.
	DSU	Daily Stand Up
	DSV	Delimiter-Separated Values
	DV	Domestic Violence
	DevOps	"DevOps literally means developers and operations. It’s a contraction. The concept behind it is getting developers and operations folk to work closely together to benefit the business. The goal is to reduce friction and increase velocity." – Barton George <http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/30/an-idiots-guide-to-devops/>
	Disparate Impact	the theory of disparate impact holds that practices in employment, housing, or other areas may be considered discriminatory and illegal if they have a disproportionate "adverse impact" on persons in a protected class, regardless of the intent of the writers of the law.
	Drools	a business rule management system (BRMS) with a forward and backward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.
	E&T	Employment & Training. Individuals who receive nutrition assistance benefits qualify for many Federal and State employment and training programs that help them obtain and retain employment.
	EA	1. Emergency Assistance, 2. Effective Altruism
	EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems.
	EBCLC	East Bay Community Law Center <http://ebclc.org/>
	EBD	End of Business Day
	EBE	Emerging Business Enterprise
	EBF	Emergency Bug Fix
	EBITDA	Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization, net income with interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization added back to it. EBITDA can be used to analyze and compare profitability between companies and industries because it eliminates the effects of financing and accounting decisions.
	EBT	Electronic Benefit Transfer, the system used in California for the delivery, redemption, and reconciliation of issued public assistance benefits, including CalFresh benefits. <http://www.ebtproject.ca.gov/>
	EC2	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud <http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/>
	ECF	Emergency Case Fix
	ECS	Episcopal Community Services, an SF-based non-profit that helps over 14 thousand homeless and low-income people every year, providing housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services. <http://www.ecs-sf.org/>
	ECWSU	eClinicalWorks Super User
	ED	Economic Development or Executive Director
	EDD	Employment Development Department
	EGD	Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, a visual inspection of the esophagus, the stomach and upper duodenum. The procedure is done by inserting a flexible endoscope down the throat.
	EHR	Electronic Health Record
	EIC	Earned Income Credit. See EITC.
	EIDM	Enterprise Identity Management
	EIR	Entrepreneurs-In-Residence
	EITC	Earned Income Tax Credit, a benefit for working people with low to moderate income. To qualify, you must meet certain requirements and file a tax return, even if you do not owe any tax or are not required to file. EITC reduces the amount of tax you owe and may give you a refund. <http://www.irs.gov/Credits-&-Deductions/Individuals/Earned-Income-Tax-Credit>
	ENE	Eligible, Not Enrolled
	EOPS	Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, offers academic and support counseling, financial aid and other support services to encourage the enrollment, retention and transfer of students handicapped by language, social, economic and educational disadvantages.
	EOY	End Of Year
	EPA	East Palo Alto <https://goo.gl/maps/YcqKxLrs5qK2>
	ER	Emergency Room
	ERA	Emergency Rental Assistance
	ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning, business management software, typically a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities.
	ES	Expedited Services, emergency CalFresh benefits, a portion or all of the first month benefit paid quickly.
	ESL	English as a Second Language
	ESRI	Environmental Systems Research Institute, an international supplier of GIS software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. <http://esri.com/>
	ETU	Ebola Treatment Unit
	EW	Eligibility Worker
	EWS	Early Warning System, a tool to assist supervisory personnel in monitoring employee performance and is used to identify and assess employee performance involved in high-risk incidents and intervene where appropriate.
	FAMM	Families Against Mandatory Minimums <http://famm.org/>
	FBCCS	Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano <http://www.foodbankccs.org/>
	FBI-NCIC	see NCIC.
	FBNYC	Food Bank for New York City, the city’s major hunger-relief organization working to end hunger throughout the five boroughs for more than 30 years. <http://www.foodbanknyc.org/>
	FC	Foster Care
	FCIC	Federal Citizen Information Center
	FCRA	Fair Credit Reporting Act, promotes the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of information in the files of consumer reporting agencies. Under FCRA, background check companies must ensure the accuracy of the information that they provide to employers, and employers are required to provide job seekers with a copy of the background check report to verify its accuracy before the company uses the information to deny the applicant employment. <http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf>
	FDA	Food and Drug Administration
	FDCA	Field Data Collection Automation <http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=1894>
	FDE	Forward Deployed Engineer
	FE	Front End
	FEC	Federal Election Commission, an independent regulatory agency which regulates campaign finance legislation. <http://www.fec.gov/>
	FED	Front-End Developer
	FFL	Federal Firearms Licensee
	FFM	Federally Facilitated Marketplace, an organized marketplace for health insurance plans operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
	FFU	For Future Use
	FL-335	a Proof of Service by Mail form in the state of California. Fill out to receive proof in the mail that documents have been served. <http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/fl335.pdf>
	FMCG	Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
	FNS	Food and Nutrition Service, a division of the USDA that administers SNAP
	FOIA	Freedom of Information Act Request; Legal method used to get information from governments. Can be time consuming.
	FOIL	Freedom Of Information Law
	FOP	Fraternal Order of Police
	FOUC	Flash Of Unstyled Content
	FPL	Federal Poverty Level https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-FPL/
	FQHC	Federally Qualified Health Center
	FRC	Family Resource Center, a community-based center that focuses on providing information and referral services to families and children.
	FSET	Food Stamp Employment Training
	FTA	Failure To Appear, the legal term for the failure of a defendant or respondent to appear at the stated time before a tribunal as directed in a summons.
	FTE	Full-Time Employee
	FU	Follow Up
	FUD	Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
	FW-001	Request to Waive Court Fees form in the state of California. If you are getting public benefits, are a low-income person, or do not have enough income to pay for your household’s basic needs and your court fees, you may use this form to ask the court to waive your court fees. <http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/fw001.pdf> See also FW-003.
	FW-003	Order on Court Fee Waiver form in the state of California. If you are getting public benefits, are a low-income person, or do not have enough income to pay for your household’s basic needs and your court fees, you may use this form to ask the court to waive your court fees. <http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/fw003.pdf> See also FW-001.
	FWD	a US 501(c)(4) group that lobbies and advocates for immigration reform, changes to the US education system to improve science and technology education, and the facilitation of scientific breakthroughs with broad public benefits. It is primarily supported and funded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. <http://www.fwd.us/>
	FWIW	For What It’s Worth
	FWS	Federal Work Study, provides funds for part-time employment to help qualified students finance the costs of postsecondary education.
	Familiar Faces	A systems coordination initiative in King County for individuals who are high utilizers of the jail (having been booked four or more times in a twelve-month period) and who also have a mental health and/or substance use condition. <http://www.kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/health-human-services-transformation/familiar-faces.aspx>
	Foodlocator	A location-based food pantry search engine run by SF-Marin Food Bank. <https://foodlocator.sfmfoodbank.org/>
	GA	General Assistance, county cash welfare in San Francisco.
	GAAP	Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
	GAIN	Greater Avenues for Independence, a program that provides employment-related services to CalWORKs participants to help them find employment, stay employed, and move on to higher paying jobs. <http://dpss.lacounty.gov/dpss/gain/overview.cfm>
	GCI	Global Cities Initiative <http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/global-cities>
	GDELT	the Global Database of Events, Languages, and Tone, a project that monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news and identifies people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes and events in the data it collects. <http://www.gdeltproject.org/>
	GDS	Government Digital Service <https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service>
	GFIPM	Global Federated Identity and Privilege Management
	GGP	Golden Gate Park
	GH	GitHub <https://github.com/>
	GIS	Geographic Information System
	GOTV	Get Out The Vote
	GPOY	Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself
	GR	General Relief
	GRADE	Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation, a systematic approach for evaluating systems in health care. <http://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/>
	GRE	Graduate Record Examinations, a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for most graduate schools in the United States.
	GRPS	Grand Rapids Public Schools
	GSA	the U.S. General Services Administration, an independent agency of the United States government, established to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. http://www.gsa.gov/
	GTA	Grand Theft Auto
	GTD	Getting Things Done
	GTFS	General Transit Feed Specification, defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. <https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/>
	GTM	Google Tag Manager <http://www.google.com/tagmanager/>
	GUID	Globally Unique IDentifier
	GitHub	A web service used to host repositories of code and make it easier for developers to collaborate using open source. <https://github.com/>
	GovDelivery	A marketing and communications firm that works with federal, state and local governments on email marketing campaigns and mailing list management. <http://www.govdelivery.com/>
	HAFP	Haight Ashbury Food Program <http://thefoodprogram.org/>
	HCF	Halt and Catch Fire
	HDHP	High-Deductible Health Plan
	HH	Household
	HHS	The US Department of Health and Human Services
	HHSA	Health and Human Services Agency
	HIMSS	Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society <http://www.himss.org/>
	HIPAA	the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, U.S. legislation that ensures a person's right to buy health insurance after losing a job, establishes standards for electronic medical records, protects the privacy of a patient's health information, and gives patients the legal right to access their own health data.
	HITECH	the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Information_Technology_for_Economic_and_Clinical_Health_Act>
	HMAC	Hash-based Message Authentication Code, a specific construction for calculating a message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function in combination with a secret cryptographic key.
	HMIS	Homeless Management Information System
	HOA	Home Owner Association
	HOT	Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team <http://hotosm.org>. See also HOTOSM.
	HOTOSM	Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (<http://hotosm.org>, <https://twitter.com/hotosm>)
	HPP	Homeless Prenatal Program <http://homelessprenatal.org/>
	HRA	the New York City Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services, provides New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. <http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hra/about/about-hra.page>
	HRSA	Health Resources and Services Administration
	HSA	the Human Services Agency of San Francisco. <http://www.sfhsa.org/>
	HSDS	Human Services Data Specification (Open Referral), an exchange format for publishing machine readable data about health, human, and social services, their locations, and the organizations that provide them.
	HTH	Hack The Hood, an Oakland-based non-profit that introduces low-income youth of color to careers in tech by hiring and training them to build websites for small businesses in their own communities.<http://www.hackthehood.org/>
	HVAC	Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
	HW	Homework
	Hotjar	A service for recording and analyzing user interactions with a site. Used by the City of Philadelphia. <https://www.hotjar.com/>
	IAP	Insurance Affordability Programs
	IAPD	Implementation Advance Planning Document
	IB	Interested Bystander, a person who seems to be aware of the world around them but are not actively deliberating on opinions or taking action on issues. <http://googlepolitics.blogspot.com/2015/06/understanding-americas-interested.html?m=1>
	IC	Individual Contributor, an individual working for an organization in a non-managerial role.
	ICAII	In Case Anyone Is Interested
	ICE	Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an American federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security.
	ICER	Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio, the ratio between the difference in costs and the difference in benefits of two interventions.
	ICT	Inter-County Transfer (see http://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfreshoutreach/res/Toolkit/QuickReference/RegulationQuickReference_A_Inter-CountyTransfers.pdf)
	ICU	Intensive Care Unit
	ICYMI	In Case You Missed It
	IEDC	The International Economic Development Council <http://www.iedconline.org/>
	IEVS	Income and Eligibility Verification System
	IIRC	If I Recall Correctly :thought_balloon:
	ILA	International Longshoremen's Association
	ILWU	International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union
	IMHO	In My Humble Opinion
	IMO	In My Opinion
	IMPD	Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
	IOW	In Other Words
	IPHI	Institute for Public Health Innovation
	IPX	Internetwork Packet Exchange
	IRB	Institutional Review Board
	IRC	Internet Relay Chat; an application layer protocol that facilitates transfer of messages in the form of text
	IRT	Income Reporting Threshold
	IVR	Interactive Voice Response, an automated telephony system that interacts with callers, gathers information, and routes calls.
	IxDA	Interaction Design Association <http://www.ixda.org/>
	JIEM	Justice Information Exchange Model
	JLL	a Chicago-based financial and professional services firm that specializes in commercial real estate services and investment management. <http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us>
	JLWOP	Juvenile Life With-Out Parole
	JMS	Jail Management System
	JSS	Justice Support System
	JVS	Jewish Vocational Service <http://www.jvs.org/>
	Jekyll	Jekyll is a simple static site generator. It's like a file-based CMS: it takes your content, processes templates, and renders a complete, static website ready to be served by any web server. <http://jekyllrb.com/>
	Judgement Proof	A term most commonly used in tort and contract law contexts to refer to defendants or potential defendants who are financially insolvent. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_proof>
	KPI	Key Performance Indicator, a type of performance measurement that evaluates the success of an organization or of a particular activity in which it engages.
	Kereitsu	A set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. It is a type of informal business group.
	KinGAP	Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program
	LAAC	Legal Aid Association of California, a statewide membership organization for almost 100 legal nonprofits. <http://laaconline.org/>
	LADPSS	Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services <http://ladpss.org/>
	LAMP	Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. See Stack.
	LAO	Legislative Analyst's Office, the California legislature's nonpartisan fiscal and policy advisor. <http://www.lao.ca.gov/>
	LARC	Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives, methods of birth control that provide effective contraception for an extended period without requiring user action.
	LAT	Los Angeles Times <http://www.latimes.com/>
	LB	Long Beach
	LBE	Locally-based Business Enterprise
	LCCR	Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area <http://www.lccr.com/>
	LEA	Law Enforcement Agency
	LEAD	Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, a program that allows law enforcement officers to redirect low-level offenders to community-based services, instead of jail and prosecution.
	LEADER	Los Angeles Eligibility, Automated Determination, Evaluation and Reporting, the online application system for applying for CalFresh and other welfare benefits in Los Angeles County. Part of SAWS.
	LEP	Limited English Proficient
	LGTM	Looks Good To Me
	LHC	the Little Hoover Commission, an independent State of California oversight agency that investigates state government operations and – through reports, recommendations and legislative proposals – promotes efficiency, economy and improved service. <http://www.lhc.ca.gov/> Also Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the largest and most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world.
	LIGO	Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
	LIHP	Low Income Health Program
	LISC	Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national organization working across the US to invest in low and medium income communities. LISC has a number of initiatives that contribute to economic development, including New Markets Tax Credits, commercial corridor revitalization, and other financing tools. <http://lisc.org/>
	LIVES	Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification, an open data standard which allows municipalities to publish restaurant inspection information to Yelp or any other website that provides restaurant listings. <http://www.codeforamerica.org/our-work/data-formats/LIVES/>
	LMDC	Louisville Metro Department of Corrections <https://louisvilleky.gov/government/corrections>
	LMK	Let Me Know :confused:
	LPR	Lawful Permanent Resident
	LRS	LEADER Replacement System, a proposed replacement for Los Angeles County's application system for applying for food stamp and other welfare benefits. See LEADER.
	LRT	last retweet
	LSPC	Legal Services for Prisoners with Children <http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/>
	LSTM	Long Short Term Memory <http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/>
	LUA	Limited Utility Allowance, a deduction for utilities used in the CalFresh budgeting process. A household that is not eligible for the SUA but has expenses for at least two separate types of utilities (other than heating and cooling) can claim this deduction.
	LV	Likely Voter
	LXC	Linux Containers, an operating-system-level virtualization environment for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single Linux control host.
	Lifeline	a government benefit program that provides a discount on monthly telephone service for eligible low-income subscribers to help ensure they can connect to the nation's communications networks, find jobs, access health care services, connect with family and their children's schools, and call for help in an emergency.
	M/WBE	Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise
	MAC	Message Authentication Code, a short piece of information used to provide integrity and authenticity assurances on a message.
	MAGI	Modified Adjusted Gross Income
	MAPC	the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in the 101 cities and towns of Metropolitan Boston. <http://www.mapc.org/>
	MAS	Multiple Award Schedule
	MAU	Monthly Active Users
	MBCW	My Benefits CalWin <https://www.mybenefitscalwin.org/>
	MC	Medi-Cal
	MC-031	an Attached Declaration form in the state of California. If you need additional space when filing another form, use this form. <http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/mc031.pdf>
	MCAS	Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, a statewide education standards-based assessment program.
	MCE	Modified Categorical Eligibility
	MDT	Mobile Data Terminal
	MEAN	MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js. See Stack.
	MEDA	Mission Economic Development Agency. MEDA’s Financial Education & Coaching Program provides free, dynamic Spanish and English workshops and comprehensive one-on-one coaching for low- and moderate-income individuals and families seeking robust financial health and support services. <http://medasf.org/>
	MEKW	Mammal-Eating Killer Whale
	MERS	Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a viral respiratory illness that is new to humans. It was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and has since spread to several other countries, including the United States. Most people infected with MERS-CoV developed severe acute respiratory illness, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Many of them have died. <http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/>
	MFG	Maximum Family Grant (in the context of CalWORKs)
	MIDAS	Modernized Integrated Disability Adjudicative System
	MIL	Mother-In-Law
	ML	Machine Learning
	MLP	Medical-Legal Partnership
	MMFR	Mad Max: Fury Road
	MMS	Multimedia Messaging Service, a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length.
	MNIT	Minnesota's Information Technology agency. It provides a full range of services for Minnesota’s executive branch agencies, boards, councils and commissions, and offers a subset of those services for other state government entities and education institutions. <http://mn.gov/mnit/>
	MOE	Maintenance Of Effort, often refers to requirements that a government must meet to continue participating in a federal program.
	MPA	Master of Public Administration
	MRAP	Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle
	MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
	MRT	Moral Recognition Therapy
	MRW	My Reaction When
	MSC	Message Switching Computer
	MSR	Mid-year Status Report
	MTBF	Mean Time Between Failures, the predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a system during operation.
	MTTR	Mean Time To Recovery, the average time that a device will take to recover from any failure.
	MU	Meaningful Use
	MU2	Meaningful Use Stage 2 (see "Meaningful Use"). A proposed stage of the program reducing requirements for patient data access and portability. <https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/04/15/2015-08514/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-electronic-health-record-incentive-program-modifications-to>
	MU3	Meaningful Use Stage 3 (see "Meaningful Use"). A proposed stage of the program with an API for data sharing. <https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/03/30/2015-06685/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-electronic-health-record-incentive-program-stage-3>
	MUN	Meets User Needs
	MV	Marginal Value
	MVP	Minimum Viable Product
	Mala in se	Criminal acts that are wrong because they violate the moral, public, or natural principles of a society.
	MiFi	a wireless router that acts as mobile Wi-Fi hotspot
	Mill	John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory and political economy. Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill>
	Minute Order	A legal document which is recorded in the minutes of a court session rather than in formal court order format. A minute order is often the court's answer to a party's request.
	MoU	Memorandum of Understanding
	Muggle	In the Harry Potter book series, a Muggle is a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born into the magical world.
	NACCRRA	National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies; see CCAoA
	NACIS	North American Cartographic Information Society <http://nacis.org/>
	NACO	National Association of Counties <http://www.naco.org/>
	NAGW	National Association of Government Webmasters
	NAMI	National Alliance on Mental Illness, a nationwide grassroots advocacy group, representing families and people affected by mental illness in the United States. <http://www.nami.org/>
	NAPBS	National Association of Professional Background Screeners, a trade association of background check companies. <https://www.napbs.com/>
	NARA	National Archives and Records Administration <http://www.archives.gov/>
	NARP	Non-Athletic Regular Person
	NCDC	National Council on Crime and Delinquency
	NCIC	National Crime Information Center, an electronic clearinghouse of crime data that can be tapped into by virtually every criminal justice agency nationwide. <https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ncic/ncic>
	NCOA	National Change Of Address, a secure dataset of approximately 160 million permanent change-of-address records consisting of the names and addresses of individuals, families and businesses who have filed a change-of-address with the USPS.
	NCSC	National Center for State Courts <http://www.ncsc.org/>
	NELP	National Employment Law Project <http://nelp.org/>
	NGP VAN	a privately owned American company specializing in providing technology to progressive campaigns and organizations. In 2009, the company was the largest partisan provider of campaign compliance software, used by most Democratic members of Congress. The company's services were utilized the Obama 2012 presidential campaign. <http://www.ngpvan.com/> See also VAN.
	NIBRS	National Incident-Based Reporting System, a system, provided by the FBI, that presents qualitative and quantitative data describing arrests and incidents.
	NIC	NIC Inc., an information service provider for federal and state government in the United States. <http://www.egov.com/>
	NICS	National Instant Criminal Background Check System <https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics>
	NIEM	National Information Exchange Model
	NIH	Not Invented Here
	NIU	Northern Illinois University <http://www.niu.edu/>
	NLETS	National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, an information sharing system for state and local law enforcement agencies that provides electronic messaging between state, local, and federal agencies and support services to justice-related computer programs. The network is operated by Nlets, a non-profit corporation owned and operated by the states and funded solely by fees for service. <http://www.nlets.org/>
	NLP	Neighborhood Law Program. In Vallejo, works with Community Services Section (CSS) and Code Enforcement (CE) to deal with property owners who have abandoned or neglected to maintain their properties.
	NLRB	National Labor Relations Board
	NNIP	The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood information systems in local policymaking and community building. <http://www.neighborhoodindicators.org>
	NOA	Notice Of Action
	NOMI	Notice of Missed Interview: a form letter sent to CalFresh applicants when they have missed their initial interview
	NP	No Problem
	NPRM	Notice of Proposed Rule-Making
	NPS	Net Promoter Score, a score for an organization or business based on the perspective that every company’s customers can be divided into three categories: Promoters (loyal and passionate), Passives (satisfied but unenthusiastic), and Detractors (unhappy and vocal).
	NRTC	Never read the comments.
	NSTIC	National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, a White House initiative to work collaboratively with the private sector, advocacy groups, public sector agencies, and other organizations to improve the privacy, security, and convenience of online transactions. <http://www.nist.gov/nstic/>
	NUMMI	New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., an automobile manufacturing company in Fremont, California, jointly owned by General Motors and Toyota that opened in 1984 and closed in 2010.
	NVC	National Visa Center, the point of contact for all domestic inquiries to the US government regarding nonimmigrant and immigrant visa cases. <http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/nvc/nvc-contact-information.html>
	NVM	Nevermind!
	NYSE	New York Stock Exchange
	Non-MAGI	refers to current Medicaid populations for whom MAGI methods for determining eligibility will not apply.
	OC	Orange County
	OCSIT	the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, the nation's focal point for data, information and services offered by the federal government to citizens. In addition, we play a leadership role in identifying and applying new technologies to effective government operations and excellence in customer service in the government.
	OCWB	Office of Community Wealth Building, in Richmond, VA
	OFC	Of Course
	OIG	Office of the Inspector General
	OIS	Officer-Involved Shooting
	OJBC	Open Justice Broker Consortium, a non-profit membership organization of government agencies and jurisdictions, dedicated to improving justice information sharing through the reuse of low-cost, standards-based integration software. <http://www.ojbc.org/>
	OJP	Office of Justice Programs
	OLAP	Online Analytical Processing, an approach to answering multi-dimensional analytical queries swiftly.
	ON	Omidyar Network <https://www.omidyar.com/>
	ONC	Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, purpose is to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care.
	OOC	Out Of Curiosity
	OODA	Observe, Orient, Decide, Act; a decision cycle developed by military strategist and USAF Colonel John Boyd. Boyd applied the concept to the combat operations process, often at the strategic level in military operations. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The approach favors agility over raw power in dealing with human opponents in any endeavor.
	OOO	Out Of Office
	OPEX	Operating Expenses, the ongoing cost for running a product, business, or system.
	OPM	Office of Personnel Management <http://www.opm.gov/>
	OSCON	Open Source Convention <http://www.oscon.com/>
	OSF	Open Science Framework, a free, open source web application that connects and supports the research workflow, enabling scientists to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their research. <https://osf.io/>
	OSI	Office of Systems Integration
	OSMC	Open San Mateo County <https://data.smcgov.org/>
	OSTP	Office of Science and Technology Policy <https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp>
	OTA	Office of Technology Assessment, an office of the United States Congress from 1972 to 1995. The office's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment>
	OTOH	On The Other Hand :hand:
	OURW	Organization United for Respect at Walmart <http://forrespect.org/>
	OVC	Office for Victims of Crime
	Olark	Olark, a service for embedding customer-service chat apps on web pages. <https://www.olark.com/>
	Open Referral	Human Services Data Specification (Open Referral), an exchange format for publishing machine readable data about health, human, and social services, their locations, and the organizations that provide them.
	P&P	Purchase & Prepare; individuals who purchase and prepare food together are one household for CalFresh purposes and must have their eligibility determined as a group. There are situations where some individuals must be included in the same household regardless of how they buy and cook their food.
	PAI	Program Access Index, a report that is one of the measures the Food and Nutrition Service uses to reward states for high performance in the administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Also refers to other reports based on the same methodology, such as the county-level PAIs produced by California Food Policy Advocates.
	PBC	Public Benefit Corporation
	PBM	Pharmacy Benefit Manager, a company that administers, or handles, the drug benefit program for an employer or health plan.
	PCA	Principle Component Analysis, a statistical procedure that uses an orthogonal transformation to convert a set of observations of possibly correlated variables into a set of values of linearly uncorrelated variables called principal components.
	PCP	Primary Care Provider
	PD	Public Defender or Police Department
	PDF	Personal Democracy Forum, a civic tech conference produced by Personal Democracy Media. See PDF15. <https://personaldemocracy.com/>
	PDF15	Personal Democracy Forum 2015, a civic tech conference held in New York City from June 4th-5th, 2015. Catherine Bracy spoke at the event: "Public Engagement Is Broken. Are You Part Of The Problem?" <https://personaldemocracy.com/media/public-engagement-broken-are-you-part-problem>
	PDI	Police Data Initiative
	PDR	Personal Data Record In the context of California RAP Sheets, PDR refers to identifying information about an individual, such as Name, Aliases, and CII
	PERF	Police Executive Research Forum, a police research and policy organization and a provider of management services, technical assistance, and executive-level education to support law enforcement agencies. <http://www.policeforum.org>
	PET	Positron Emission Tomography
	PET scan	A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that uses a radioactive substance called a tracer to look for disease in the body.
	PGH	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	PHC	Project Homeless Connect. PHC excels in connecting the most vulnerable San Franciscans to vital resources throughout the city. We link participants to difficult-to-obtain services including medical, dental and vision care, and employment assistance. http://www.projecthomelessconnect.org/
	PHI	Personal Health Information
	PHQ	Patient Health Questionnaire
	PIF	Presidential Innovation Fellows https://18f.gsa.gov/pif/
	PII	Personally Identifiable Information, information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. See also SPI.
	PIN	Personal Identification Number
	PIO	Public Information Officer
	PIPES	Primarily Integrating Products that Exist, Securely
	PITA	Pain In The Ass
	PLSA	Prize Linked Savings Account, a savings account where some of the interest payment on deposits is distributed in larger amounts to fewer people according to a periodic lottery.
	PLUR	Peace Love Unity Respect
	PM	Project Manager
	PMO	Project Management Office
	PN	Peer Network
	PNLU	People Not Like Us
	POBAR	Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights, provides for elements of procedural rights that must be followed toward public safety officers when they are subject to an investigation or discipline; also provides for rules regarding officer personnel records, privacy, searches and other issues. <http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313>
	POC	Point Of Contact
	POIS	Police Officer-Involved Shooting
	PORO	Plain Old Ruby Object
	POSIWID	the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does
	POSM	Portable Open Street Map <https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/posm>
	PPA	Personal Package Archive, in Ubuntu, a kind of repository. Developers create them in order to distribute their software.
	PPIC	Public Policy Institute of California <http://www.ppic.org/>
	PRA	Public Record Act or Paperwork Reduction Act
	PRCS	Post-Release Community Supervision
	PSP	Private Service Provider, an authorized private company or designated government agency in California that may submit requests for criminal offender record information reviews directly to the Department of Justice using the statewide electronic applicant communication network maintained by the Attorney General.
	PVRC	Pomona Valley Reentry Coalition
	Placer	Placer County, California <http://www.placer.ca.gov/>
	PyCon	the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. Catherine Bracy was a keynote speaker at the 2015 conference in Montreal.
	Q-Flow	Scheduling and customer management software, used by the SF Human Services Agency to manage CalFresh applicants.
	QALY	Quality-Adjusted Life Year, a measure of disease burden, taking into account both the quality and the quantity of life lived. It is used in assessing the financial value of a medical intervention.
	QC	Quality Control
	QHC	Query History Cycle: An ACHS inquiry type that shows PDR and the last criminal cycle entry on record. These are often submitted by Wants and Warrants to the CA DOJ
	QHP	Query History Personal data: An ACHS inquiry type that display’s a subjects Personal Data Record (PDR). These are often submitted by District Attorney’s offices to the CA DOJ
	QHT	Query History Transcript: An ACHS inquiry type that will not display a record online. A copy of the criminal record will be mailed to the recipient by the DOJ. These are sent in response to record review request applications.
	QHY	Query Online History Transcript: An ACHS inquiry type that displays the complete automated criminal history record online. Also known as an “automated RAP Sheet"
	QR	Quarterly Report
	R	R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It’s used by data scientists to analyze data.
	RAA	Richmond Ambulance Authority <http://www.raaems.org/>
	RACI	Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed; describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process. It is especially useful in clarifying roles and responsibilities in cross-functional/departmental projects and processes.
	RAP Sheet	Record of Arrests and Prosecutions
	RCA	Refugee Cash Assistance
	RDP	Remote Desktop Protocol, a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection.
	RDS	Amazon Relational Database Service <http://aws.amazon.com/rds/>
	REST	REpresentational State Transfer, a style of software architecture for distributed systems such as the World Wide Web. REST-style architectures consist of clients and servers. Clients initiate requests to servers; servers process requests and return appropriate responses. Requests and responses are built around the transfer of representations of resources. A resource can be essentially any coherent and meaningful concept that may be addressed. A representation of a resource is typically a document that captures the current or intended state of a resource.
	RFO	Request For Offer
	RFP	Request For Proposal
	RFQ	Request For Quotation
	RFR	Request For Response
	RMHF	Richmond Memorial Healthcare Foundation
	RMP	Restaurant Meals Program, provides access to prepared meals for hungry elderly, disabled or homeless SNAP recipients who don't have the ability or the means to store or cook food for themselves.
	RMS	1. Records Management System, used by police for information, records, documents, or files pertaining to law enforcement operations. 2. Richard Matthew Stallman, a software freedom activist and computer programmer.
	RN	Right Now
	RNN	Recurrent Neural Network
	ROCA	Resource-Oriented Client Architecture <http://roca-style.org/>
	ROI	Return On Investment
	RPP	Residential Parking Permit or Residential Preferential Parking
	RRR	Redetermination, Recertification, Renewal
	RSAT	Residential Substance Abuse Treatment
	RSN	Real Soon Now
	RTG	Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
	RV	Registered Voter
	RVA	Richmond, Virginia
	RWJF	the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the United States' largest philanthropy focused solely on health. <http://www.rwjf.org/>
	RoR	Release on Recognizance
	S/TACWIS	Statewide and Tribal Automated Child Welfare Information Systems
	S3	Amazon Simple Storage Service <https://aws.amazon.com/s3/>
	SACWIS	Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems
	SAR-7	Semi-Annual Report, also known as the Eligibility Status Report, a report form that some CalWORKs and CalFresh households must complete, sign and send to the County, once a year. Benefits may be discontinued if verification of the information reported is not provided.
	SAWS	the Statewide Automated Welfare System, made up of multiple systems (including C-IV, CalWin and LEADER) which support eligibility and benefit determination, enrollment, and case maintenance at the county level for some of California's major health and human services programs.
	SBST	the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, a group based at the General Services Administration (GSA) that works with Federal agencies to test the impact of behaviorally informed interventions on program impact and efficiency using rapid, rigorous, and low-cost randomized control trials.
	SD	San Diego
	SDG	an abbreviation for San Diego (used by the CalWIN consortium)
	SDI	State Disability Insurance
	SDK	Software Development Kit, a set of software development tools that allows the creation of applications for a certain framework or platform.
	SFAPD	San Francisco Adult Probation Department <http://sfgov.org/adultprobation/>
	SFFB	SF-Marin Food Bank <http://www.sfmfoodbank.org/>
	SFHOT	San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team, a collaboration between the Department of Public Health, Human Services Agency, SF Public Library and the non-profit Public Health Foundation Enterprises that serves individuals living on the street who are severely disabled.
	SFHSA	the Human Services Agency of San Francisco. <http://www.sfhsa.org/>
	SFIS	Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System
	SFMFB	SF-Marin Food Bank <http://www.sfmfoodbank.org/>
	SFPDP	the San Francisco Pretrial Diversion Project <http://sfpretrial.com/>
	SFPL	San Francisco Public Library
	SFY	State Fiscal Year
	SHOP	Small employer Health Option Program, offered as part of Covered California
	SIAD	Startup In A Day, a partnership with U.S. cities to develop online tools that let entrepreneurs discover and apply—in less than a day—for local, state, and federal requirements needed to start a business. <https://www.sba.gov/startup>
	SIP	Self-Initiated Plan
	SIPP	Survey of Income and Program Participation, a US Census survey that collects data and measures change for topics including: economic well-being, family dynamics, education, assets, health insurance, childcare, and food security. <http://www.census.gov/sipp/>
	SIRT	Special Investigations Response Team
	SLED	State Local and EDucation
	SLS	Scalable Login System
	SMC	San Mateo County
	SMDH	Shaking My Damn Head
	SME	subject matter expert
	SMH	Shaking My Head
	SMS	Short Messaging Service, a text messaging service component of phone, Web, or mobile communication systems. It uses standardized communications protocols to allow fixed line or mobile phone devices to exchange short text messages.
	SNA	Systems Network Architecture
	SNAP	the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap
	SNF	Skilled Nursing Facility, a health related facility designed to provide custodial care for individuals unable to care for themselves because of mental or physical infirmity.
	SOA	Service-Oriented Architecture
	SOC	Share Of Cost (in context of Medi-Cal)
	SOF	Statement Of Facts
	SOLID	Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion; five basic principles of object-oriented programming and design.
	SORN	System Of Records Notice. In the federal government, a system of records is a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifier assigned to the individual. The Privacy Act requires each agency to publish notice of its systems of records in the Federal Register.
	SOW	Scope/Statement Of Work
	SPED	SPecial EDucation
	SPI	Sensitive Personal Information, information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. See also PII.
	SPICE	Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine
	SPOF	Single Point Of Failure
	SRO	Self-Regulatory Organization, an organization that exercises some degree of regulatory authority over an industry or profession. The regulatory authority could be applied in addition to some form of government regulation, or it could fill the vacuum of an absence of government oversight and regulation. The ability of an SRO to exercise regulatory authority does not necessarily derive from a grant of authority from the government.
	SSA	Social Security Administration <https://www.ssa.gov/>
	SSDI	Social Security Disability Insurance
	SSH	Secure SHell
	SSI	Supplemental Security Income, a Federal income supplement program funded by general tax revenues. http://www.ssa.gov/ssi/
	SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, a computer networking protocol that manages server authentication, client authentication and encrypted communication between servers and clients.
	SSN	Social Security Number
	SSRI	Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
	STEM	Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
	STIR	Startup In Residence <http://startupinresidence.org/>
	STL	St. Louis, MO <https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/>
	STRIVE	Strive International, an organization that prepares job seekers through intensive foundational skills training. Works in NOLA. <http://striveinternational.org/>
	SUA	Standard Utility Allowance, a standard deduction for basic utilities used in the CalFresh budgeting process.
	SUID	State Unique Identifier
	SV	Silicon Valley
	SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation.
	SWOT	Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
	SaaS	Software as a Service
	Sabermetrics	The empirical analysis of baseball, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity.
	SeaStat	A Seattle PD program aimed at quickly addressing crime hotspots based on analysis of crime data and community reports of incidents. The Department holds meetings every two weeks, involving staff throughout the department and partner agencies, to discuss the latest information and come up with strategies to reduce crime. <http://www.seattle.gov/seattle-police-department/crime-data/seastat>
	Smart Chicago	Smart Chicago is a civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology. We are guided by our principles and we stay focused on access, skills, and data. We rely on our unique model to deliver to do our work, which we document with diligence.
	Stack	a set of software components needed to create a complete platform such that no additional software is needed to support applications. Applications are said to "run on" or "run on top of" the resulting platform. See LAMP or MEAN.
	Subvention	An amount of money that is given to a person or group by a government or organization.
	Sunk Cost	A cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered.
	TACWIS	Tribal Automated Child Welfare Information Systems
	TAF	The Asia Foundation <http://www.asiafoundation.org/>
	TANF	Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a federal program providing cash assistance to indigent families with dependent children through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.
	TASC	Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities <http://tasc.org/>
	TASSCCC	Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communication Conference <http://www.tasscc.org/>
	TAY	Transitional Age Youth, people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four who are in transition from state custody or foster care and are at-risk. See TAYSF
	TAYSF	the Transitional Age Youth initiative in San Francisco <http://www.taysf.org/>. See TAY
	TBC	To Be Confirmed
	TCE	The California Endowment, a private health foundation that provides grants to community-based organizations throughout California. <http://www.calendow.org/>
	TCOT	Top Conservatives On Twitter
	TDD	Test Driven Development, a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards.
	TDI	Turbo Direct Injection
	TFS	Transitional Food Stamps (CalFresh)
	TFW	That Feel When
	THC	Tenderloin Housing Clinic <http://www.thclinic.org/>
	TIL	Today I Learned :nerd_face:
	TLA	Three-Letter Acronym
	TLD	Top-Level Domain <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain>
	TLS	Transport Layer Security, along with its predecessor SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security>
	TMC	Transitional Medi-Cal Coverage
	TOMIS	Tennessee Offenders Information System
	TPP	TransPacific Partnership
	TSV	Tab-Separated Values
	TUA	Telephone Utility Allowance, a deduction for expenses used in the CalFresh budgeting process. A household that is not eligible for either the SUA or LUA but has telephone expenses can claim this deduction.
	UBI	Universal Basic Income
	UCSF	University of California, San Francisco <http://www.ucsf.edu/>
	UFCW	the United Food and Commercial Workers International union
	UI	User Interface; the layout of a website or app where users are expected to navigate (the buttons/text fields). Related, but not the same as UX (user experience). Also Unemployment Insurance.
	UIB	Unemployment Insurance Benefits
	UIT	User Integration Team
	ULP	Unfair Labor Practice
	URM	Under-Represented Minority
	USAC	Universal Service Administrative Company, an independent, not-for-profit corporation designated by the Federal Communications Commission as the administrator of universal service.
	USCIS	United States Citizenship and Immigration Services <http://www.uscis.gov/>
	USCM	United States Conference of Mayors, a non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,407 such cities in the country, and each city is represented in the Conference by its mayor. <http://usmayors.org/>
	USCoM	United States Conference of

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