I. The department shall acquire or prepare informational materials relating to missing children issues and matters. These issues and matters include, but are not limited to, the following:
- (a) Offenses under federal law that could relate to missing children and other provisions of federal law that focus on missing children.
- (b) Statutory offenses that could relate to missing children, including, but not limited to, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, child stealing, interference with custody, endangering the welfare of a child, domestic violence, abuse of a child, neglect, delinquency of a child, sexual offenses, drug offenses, prostitution offenses, obscenity offenses, and other provision of law that could relate to missing children.
- (c) Legislation being considered by the general court, legislatures of other states, the Congress of the United States, and political subdivisions in this and other states to address missing children issues.
- (d) Sources of information on missing children issues.
- (e) State, local, federal, and private systems for locating and identifying missing children.
- (f) Law enforcement agency programs, responsibilities, and investigative techniques in missing children matters.
- (g) Efforts on the community level in this and other states, concerning missing children issues and matters, by governmental entities and private organizations.
- (h) The identification of private organizations that, among their primary objectives, address missing children issues and matters, and any toll free numbers offered by these organizations.
- II. The department shall provide, upon request and subject to paragraph III, a copy of any informational material to another person or entity.
- III. The commissioner shall by rule establish a reasonable fee for a copy of any informational material acquired or prepared pursuant to paragraph I, to be provided to a person or entity other than a law enforcement agency in this or other states or of the federal government, a board of education of a school district in this state, a nonpublic school in this state, a governmental entity in this state, or a library in this state. The fee shall be collected by the department prior to sending or giving any informational material to such a person or entity. Fees collected pursuant to this paragraph shall be deposited monthly in the general fund.
- IV. [Repealed.]
Source. 1985, 318:13. 1995, 310:175, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. 2021, 122:54, eff. July 9, 2021.