EAGAN, Minn. , Sept. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ImageTrend, LLC has released a policy position statement regarding the data flow requirements of the National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS). While supporting NERIS' mission to modernize incident reporting, ImageTrend recognizes that states and agencies may benefit from a data flow model that maintains their existing oversight and compliance structures, from agency to state, and then to NERIS.

NERIS has communicated in its documentation that incident data is to flow directly from agencies to NERIS, then from NERIS to the respective state. ImageTrend believes that this structure creates compliance risks by omitting state-mandated custom fields not included in the NERIS schema and undermines the longstanding role of states a

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