SEATTLE – Federal officials are launching a new program that will allow tribes access to national criminal databases and fix a system that allowed a man to buy a gun that was later used by his son to kill four classmates and himself at a Washington high school.
Raymond Fryberg was the subject of a 2001 tribal domestic violence restraining order, which should have kept him from buying a firearm. The restraining order was never sent to the federal criminal database used to check criminal histories during firearm purchases because of a breakdown in information sharing between tribes and outside authorities.
The Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information will allow federally recognized tribes to enter criminal records into and pull information out of national databases overseen by the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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