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<section article="gcp" article_name="Criminal Procedure" number="10-201" title_number="10" title_name="Criminal Records" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Criminal Justice Information System">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Central Repository” means the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository established under § 10–213 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Criminal history record information” means data that are developed or collected by a criminal justice unit about a person and that pertain to a reportable event.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Criminal history record information” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>data from a unit that is required to report to the Central Repository under Title 3 of this article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>data about a person following waiver of jurisdiction by a juvenile court; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>data described under §§ 10–215(a)(20) and (21) and 10–216 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Criminal history record information” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>data contained in intelligence or investigatory files or police work product records used only for police investigations;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>except as provided in paragraph (2)(ii) and (iii) of this subsection, data about a proceeding under Title 3, Subtitle 8A of the Courts Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>wanted posters, police blotter entries, court records of public judicial proceedings, or published court opinions;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>data about a violation of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a traffic law of this State or any other traffic law, ordinance, or regulation;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a local ordinance or a State or local regulation; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the Natural Resources Article or a public local law;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>data about the point system established by the Motor Vehicle Administration under Title 16 of the Transportation Article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>a presentence investigation report or other report that a probation department prepares for a court to use in the exercise of criminal jurisdiction or for the Governor to use in the exercise of the Governor’s power to grant a pardon, reprieve, commutation, or nolle prosequi.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Criminal justice information system” means equipment, facilities, procedures, agreements, and personnel that are used to collect, process, preserve, and disseminate criminal history record information.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Criminal justice information system” includes computer hardware and software.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Criminal justice unit” means a government unit or subunit that allocates a substantial part of its annual budget to any of the following functions and that by law:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>may arrest, detain, prosecute, or adjudicate persons suspected of or charged with a crime;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is responsible for the custodial treatment or confinement under Title 3 of this article of persons charged or convicted of a crime or relieved of criminal punishment by reason of a verdict of not criminally responsible;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is responsible for the correctional supervision, rehabilitation, or release of persons convicted of a crime; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>is responsible for criminal identification activities and the collection, storage, and dissemination of criminal history record information.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Criminal justice unit” includes, when exercising jurisdiction over criminal matters, alternative dispositions of criminal matters, or criminal history record information:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a State, county, or municipal police unit, sheriff’s office, or correctional facility;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a unit required to report to the Central Repository under § 3–107 or § 3–112 of this article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the offices of the Attorney General, State’s Attorneys, and any other person or unit that by law may prosecute persons accused of a crime; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Supreme Court of Maryland, the Appellate Court of Maryland, the circuit courts, the District Court of Maryland, and the offices of the clerks of these courts.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Except as provided in §§ 10–215(a)(20) and (21), 10–216(d), and 10–220 of this subtitle, “criminal justice unit” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Department of Juvenile Services; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a juvenile court.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Disseminate”, with respect to records, means to transmit criminal history record information in any form.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Disseminate” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>transmitting criminal history record information within a criminal justice unit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>reporting criminal history record information as required under § 10–214 of this subtitle; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>transmitting criminal history record information between criminal justice units to allow the initiation of subsequent criminal justice proceedings against a person relating to the same crime.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Reportable event” means an event specified or provided for in § 10–215 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
