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 […]
The center shall make a person’s criminal records available for inspection by him or his attorney upon written request. Prior to inspection, the person must submit a set of fingerprints, sign a written authorization for the records check, and provide any other identifying information required by the center. Should such person or his attorney contest […]
State conviction information and arrest information which is contained in the center’s database or the nonexistence of such information in the center’s database shall be made available for the following noncriminal justice purposes: To any local, state or federal governmental agency that requests the information for the enforcement of a local, state or federal law; […]
Any person who knowingly requests, obtains or attempts to obtain criminal history record information and other information maintained in the center’s network under false pretenses or who misuses criminal history record information or information maintained in the center’s network except in accordance with law or who knowingly communicates or attempts to communicate criminal history record […]
In the event of conflict, this chapter shall to the extent of the conflict supersede all existing statutes which regulate, control or otherwise relate, directly or by implication, to the collection, storage and dissemination or usage of fingerprint identification, offender criminal history or any existing statute which relates directly or by implication to any other […]
All boards of supervisors, municipal authorities of the state and other users of the network are hereby authorized to appropriate and pay, in their discretion, to the Department of Public Safety such sum as may be assessed against said county or municipality or user agency as their pro rata cost of the justice information system […]
Unless specifically authorized by law, records maintained by the center shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983. Intelligence and investigative files maintained by law enforcement shall be kept separate from criminal history record information and shall be exempt from dissemination under the provisions of this chapter and the […]
A certified copy of every expunction and nonadjudication order shall be sent by the circuit clerk to the Mississippi Criminal Information Center where it shall be maintained in a separate confidential database accessible only upon written request by a district attorney, a county prosecuting attorney, a municipal court prosecuting attorney, the Attorney General of Mississippi […]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section unless the context requires otherwise: “Criminal justice agencies” means public agencies at all levels of government which perform as their principal function activities relating to the apprehension, prosecution, adjudication or rehabilitation of criminal offenders. “Offense” means […]
There is hereby established within the Mississippi Department of Public Safety a system for the communication of vital information relating to crimes, criminals and criminal activity to be known as the Mississippi Justice Information Center. Central responsibility for the development, maintenance and operation of the center shall be vested with the director of the Mississippi […]
The Mississippi Justice Information Center shall: Develop, operate and maintain an information system which will support the collection, storage, retrieval and dissemination of all data described in this chapter, consistent with those principles of scope, security and responsiveness prescribed by this chapter. Cooperate with all criminal justice agencies within the state in providing those forms, […]
The center, by direction of the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, shall establish and collect fees reasonably calculated to reimburse the center for the actual cost of searching, reviewing, duplicating and mailing records or information of any kind maintained by the center and authorized for release by this chapter. No records shall be […]
All criminal justice agencies within the state shall submit to the center an arrest card that will transmit fingerprints, descriptions, photographs (when specifically requested), and other identifying data on persons who have been lawfully arrested or taken into custody in this state for all felonies and misdemeanors as described in Section 45-27-7(2)(a). It shall be […]
