§ 45-27-1. Legislative findings and declaration of purpose.
The Legislature finds and declares that a more effective administrative structure now is required to control the collection, storage, dissemination and use of criminal offender record information. These improvements in the organization and control of criminal offender record keeping are imperative both to strengthen the administration of criminal justice and to assure appropriate protection of rights of individual privacy. The purposes of this chapter are (a) to control and coordinate criminal offender record keeping within this state; (b) to assure periodic reporting to the Governor and Legislature concerning such record keeping; and (c) to establish a more effective administrative structure for the collection, maintenance, retrieval and dissemination of criminal history record information described in this chapter, consistent with those principles of scope and security prescribed by this chapter, and to facilitate the practical use of criminal offender record information within the criminal justice system.
Sources: Laws, 1980, ch. 555, § 1; reenacted, 1983, ch. 381, § 1; Laws, 2001, ch. 500, § 13; Laws, 2007, ch. 436, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2007.
§ 45-27-1. Legislative findings and declaration of purpose.
The Legislature finds and declares that a more effective administrative structure now is required to control the collection, storage, dissemination and use of criminal offender record information. These improvements in the organization and control of criminal offender record keeping are imperative both to strengthen the administration of criminal justice and to assure appropriate protection of rights of individual privacy. The purposes of this chapter are (a) to control and coordinate criminal offender record keeping within this state; (b) to assure periodic reporting to the Governor and Legislature concerning such record keeping; and (c) to establish a more effective administrative structure for the collection, maintenance, retrieval and dissemination of criminal history record information described in this chapter, consistent with those principles of scope and security prescribed by this chapter, and to facilitate the practical use of criminal offender record information within the criminal justice system.
Sources: Laws, 1980, ch. 555, § 1; reenacted, 1983, ch. 381, § 1; Laws, 2001, ch. 500, § 13; Laws, 2007, ch. 436, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2007.
§ 45-27-1. Legislative findings and declaration of purpose.
The Legislature finds and declares that a more effective administrative structure now is required to control the collection, storage, dissemination and use of criminal offender record information. These improvements in the organization and control of criminal offender record keeping are imperative both to strengthen the administration of criminal justice and to assure appropriate protection of rights of individual privacy. The purposes of this chapter are (a) to control and coordinate criminal offender record keeping within this state; (b) to assure periodic reporting to the Governor and Legislature concerning such record keeping; and (c) to establish a more effective administrative structure for the collection, maintenance, retrieval and dissemination of criminal history record information described in this chapter, consistent with those principles of scope and security prescribed by this chapter, and to facilitate the practical use of criminal offender record information within the criminal justice system.
Sources: Laws, 1980, ch. 555, § 1; reenacted, 1983, ch. 381, § 1; Laws, 2001, ch. 500, § 13; Laws, 2007, ch. 436, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2007.
