SECTION 27.101. Computerized Criminal History System

(a) The Department of Public Safety (department) is responsible for recording data and maintaining a database for a computerized criminal history record information system that in connection with the Corrections Tracking System managed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice comprises the Criminal Justice Information System.

(b) The Computerized Criminal History System managed by the department serves:

(1) as the record creation point for the criminal justice information system maintained by the state; and

(2) as the control terminal agency for entry and indexing of criminal history information records, in accordance with federal law, rule and policy into the federal records systems maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

(c) Local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies must report, and the department must retain, the information required by Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 60.

(d) The maintenance and dissemination of information in the Computerized Criminal History System, other than Computerized History Record Information, shall be in accordance with applicable state law.

Source Note: The provisions of this §27.101 adopted to be effective February 27, 2003, 28 TexReg 1650