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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="9-229" title_number="9" title_name="Juvenile Services" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Department of Juvenile Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department shall operate and manage the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center as a centralized regional juvenile intake, assessment, court, and detention facility for Baltimore City.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>an office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an office of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Baltimore City police services; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>courthouse security services of the Sheriff of Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a child who is delinquent or is alleged to have committed a delinquent act is taken into custody by a law enforcement officer and brought to the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, the Department, in conjunction with Baltimore City police services, shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for purposes of positive identification, obtain photographs and fingerprints and submit them to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any other automated juvenile justice information system or repository approved by the Secretary;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>conduct a criminal and juvenile history records check; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>conduct an automated search for outstanding warrants and writs of attachment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>After the processing of fingerprints, the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository shall provide to the Department, in accordance with State and federal law, information concerning children taken into custody under subsection (c) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Information concerning a child disseminated from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository is a police record under § 10-101(h) of the Criminal Procedure Article and may not be redisseminated except in accordance with § 3-8A-27(a) of the Courts Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Subject to the authority of the Secretary:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the managing director of the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center is its chief administrator; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the director of detention of the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center is its administrator of juvenile detention.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
