(a) The Department of Public Safety is responsible for recording data and maintaining a database for a computerized juvenile justice information system that serves:
- (1) as the record creation point for the juvenile justice information system maintained by the state; and
- (2) as the control terminal for entry of records, in accordance with federal law, rule and policy into the federal records systems maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- (b) The Department of Public Safety will not collect or retain information relating to a juvenile if Texas Family Code, Chapter 58 prohibits or restricts the collection or retention of the information.
- (c) Local law enforcement and juvenile justice agencies must report, and the Department of Public Safety must retain the information required by Texas Family Code, Chapter 58, Subchapter B, §§58.101-58.113.
Source Note:The provisions of this §27.51 adopted to be effective March 7, 1996, 21 TexReg 1588.