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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY D. O'BRIEN, CLYMER, HARHAI, HESS, MILNE, PASHINSKI, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH AND WAGNER, APRIL 12, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 12, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, in criminal history record |
3 | information, further providing for information in central |
4 | repository or automated systems. |
5 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
6 | hereby enacts as follows: |
7 | Section 1. Section 9106(c)(1) and (d) of Title 18 of the |
8 | Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read: |
9 | § 9106. Information in central repository or automated systems. |
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11 | (c) Dissemination of protected information.-- |
12 | (1) Intelligence information may be placed within an |
13 | automated or electronic criminal justice information system |
14 | and disseminated or secondarily disseminated only if the |
15 | following apply: |
16 | (i) The information is reliable as determined by an |
17 | authorized intelligence officer. |
18 | (ii) The department, agency or individual requesting |
19 | the information is a criminal justice agency which has |
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1 | policies and procedures adopted by the Office of Attorney |
2 | General in consultation with the Pennsylvania State |
3 | Police which are consistent with this act and include: |
4 | (A) Designation of an intelligence officer or |
5 | officers by the head of the criminal justice agency |
6 | or his designee. |
7 | (B) Adoption of administrative, technical and |
8 | physical safeguards, including audit trails, to |
9 | insure against unauthorized access and against |
10 | intentional or unintentional damages. |
11 | (C) Labeling information to indicate levels of |
12 | sensitivity and levels of confidence in the |
13 | information. |
14 | (iii) The information is requested in connection |
15 | with the duties of the criminal justice agency requesting |
16 | the information, and the request for information is based |
17 | upon a name, fingerprints, modus operandi, genetic |
18 | typing, voice print or other identifying characteristic. |
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20 | [(d) Secondary dissemination prohibited.--A criminal justice |
21 | agency which possesses information protected by this section, |
22 | but which is not the source of the information, shall not |
23 | disseminate or disclose the information to another criminal |
24 | justice agency but shall refer the requesting agency to the |
25 | agency which was the source of the information. This prohibition |
26 | shall not apply if the agency receiving the information is |
27 | investigating or prosecuting a criminal incident in conjunction |
28 | with the agency possessing the information. Agencies receiving |
29 | information protected by this section assume the same level of |
30 | responsibility for the security of such information as the |
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1 | agency which was the source of the information.] |
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3 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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