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Statutes > Missouri > T39 > C610 > 610_120

Records to be confidential--accessible to whom, purposes.

610.120. 1. Records required to be closed shall not be destroyed;they shall be inaccessible to the general public and to all persons otherthan the defendant except as provided in this section and section 43.507,RSMo. The closed records shall be available to: criminal justice agenciesfor the administration of criminal justice pursuant to section 43.500,RSMo, criminal justice employment, screening persons with access tocriminal justice facilities, procedures, and sensitive information; to lawenforcement agencies for issuance or renewal of a license, permit,certification, or registration of authority from such agency including butnot limited to watchmen, security personnel, private investigators, andpersons seeking permits to purchase or possess a firearm; those agenciesauthorized by section 43.543, RSMo, to submit and when submittingfingerprints to the central repository; the sentencing advisory commissioncreated in section 558.019, RSMo, for the purpose of studying sentencingpractices in accordance with section 43.507, RSMo; to qualified entitiesfor the purpose of screening providers defined in section 43.540, RSMo; thedepartment of revenue for driver license administration; the division ofworkers' compensation for the purposes of determining eligibility for crimevictims' compensation pursuant to sections 595.010 to 595.075, RSMo,department of health and senior services for the purpose of licensing andregulating facilities and regulating in-home services provider agencies andfederal agencies for purposes of criminal justice administration, criminaljustice employment, child, elderly, or disabled care, and for suchinvestigative purposes as authorized by law or presidential executiveorder.

2. These records shall be made available only for the purposes and tothe entities listed in this section. A criminal justice agency receiving arequest for criminal history information under its control may requirepositive identification, to include fingerprints of the subject of therecord search, prior to releasing closed record information. Disseminationof closed and open records from the Missouri criminal records repositoryshall be in accordance with section 43.509, RSMo. All records which areclosed records shall be removed from the records of the courts,administrative agencies, and law enforcement agencies which are availableto the public and shall be kept in separate records which are to be heldconfidential and, where possible, pages of the public record shall beretyped or rewritten omitting those portions of the record which deal withthe defendant's case. If retyping or rewriting is not feasible because ofthe permanent nature of the record books, such record entries shall beblacked out and recopied in a confidential book.

(L. 1981 H.B. 554, A.L. 1983 S.B. 72, A.L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 1992 S.B. 573 & 634, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1677 merged with S.B. 554 merged with S.B. 763, A.L. 2003 S.B. 184)

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Missouri > T39 > C610 > 610_120

Records to be confidential--accessible to whom, purposes.

610.120. 1. Records required to be closed shall not be destroyed;they shall be inaccessible to the general public and to all persons otherthan the defendant except as provided in this section and section 43.507,RSMo. The closed records shall be available to: criminal justice agenciesfor the administration of criminal justice pursuant to section 43.500,RSMo, criminal justice employment, screening persons with access tocriminal justice facilities, procedures, and sensitive information; to lawenforcement agencies for issuance or renewal of a license, permit,certification, or registration of authority from such agency including butnot limited to watchmen, security personnel, private investigators, andpersons seeking permits to purchase or possess a firearm; those agenciesauthorized by section 43.543, RSMo, to submit and when submittingfingerprints to the central repository; the sentencing advisory commissioncreated in section 558.019, RSMo, for the purpose of studying sentencingpractices in accordance with section 43.507, RSMo; to qualified entitiesfor the purpose of screening providers defined in section 43.540, RSMo; thedepartment of revenue for driver license administration; the division ofworkers' compensation for the purposes of determining eligibility for crimevictims' compensation pursuant to sections 595.010 to 595.075, RSMo,department of health and senior services for the purpose of licensing andregulating facilities and regulating in-home services provider agencies andfederal agencies for purposes of criminal justice administration, criminaljustice employment, child, elderly, or disabled care, and for suchinvestigative purposes as authorized by law or presidential executiveorder.

2. These records shall be made available only for the purposes and tothe entities listed in this section. A criminal justice agency receiving arequest for criminal history information under its control may requirepositive identification, to include fingerprints of the subject of therecord search, prior to releasing closed record information. Disseminationof closed and open records from the Missouri criminal records repositoryshall be in accordance with section 43.509, RSMo. All records which areclosed records shall be removed from the records of the courts,administrative agencies, and law enforcement agencies which are availableto the public and shall be kept in separate records which are to be heldconfidential and, where possible, pages of the public record shall beretyped or rewritten omitting those portions of the record which deal withthe defendant's case. If retyping or rewriting is not feasible because ofthe permanent nature of the record books, such record entries shall beblacked out and recopied in a confidential book.

(L. 1981 H.B. 554, A.L. 1983 S.B. 72, A.L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 1992 S.B. 573 & 634, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1677 merged with S.B. 554 merged with S.B. 763, A.L. 2003 S.B. 184)


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Missouri > T39 > C610 > 610_120

Records to be confidential--accessible to whom, purposes.

610.120. 1. Records required to be closed shall not be destroyed;they shall be inaccessible to the general public and to all persons otherthan the defendant except as provided in this section and section 43.507,RSMo. The closed records shall be available to: criminal justice agenciesfor the administration of criminal justice pursuant to section 43.500,RSMo, criminal justice employment, screening persons with access tocriminal justice facilities, procedures, and sensitive information; to lawenforcement agencies for issuance or renewal of a license, permit,certification, or registration of authority from such agency including butnot limited to watchmen, security personnel, private investigators, andpersons seeking permits to purchase or possess a firearm; those agenciesauthorized by section 43.543, RSMo, to submit and when submittingfingerprints to the central repository; the sentencing advisory commissioncreated in section 558.019, RSMo, for the purpose of studying sentencingpractices in accordance with section 43.507, RSMo; to qualified entitiesfor the purpose of screening providers defined in section 43.540, RSMo; thedepartment of revenue for driver license administration; the division ofworkers' compensation for the purposes of determining eligibility for crimevictims' compensation pursuant to sections 595.010 to 595.075, RSMo,department of health and senior services for the purpose of licensing andregulating facilities and regulating in-home services provider agencies andfederal agencies for purposes of criminal justice administration, criminaljustice employment, child, elderly, or disabled care, and for suchinvestigative purposes as authorized by law or presidential executiveorder.

2. These records shall be made available only for the purposes and tothe entities listed in this section. A criminal justice agency receiving arequest for criminal history information under its control may requirepositive identification, to include fingerprints of the subject of therecord search, prior to releasing closed record information. Disseminationof closed and open records from the Missouri criminal records repositoryshall be in accordance with section 43.509, RSMo. All records which areclosed records shall be removed from the records of the courts,administrative agencies, and law enforcement agencies which are availableto the public and shall be kept in separate records which are to be heldconfidential and, where possible, pages of the public record shall beretyped or rewritten omitting those portions of the record which deal withthe defendant's case. If retyping or rewriting is not feasible because ofthe permanent nature of the record books, such record entries shall beblacked out and recopied in a confidential book.

(L. 1981 H.B. 554, A.L. 1983 S.B. 72, A.L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 1992 S.B. 573 & 634, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1677 merged with S.B. 554 merged with S.B. 763, A.L. 2003 S.B. 184)