Texas Family Code - Section 58.110. Reporting

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§ 58.110. REPORTING.  (a) The department by rule shall 
develop reporting procedures that ensure that the juvenile offender 
processing data is reported from the time a juvenile offender is 
initially taken into custody, detained, or referred until the time 
a juvenile offender is released from the jurisdiction of the 
juvenile justice system.
	(b)  The law enforcement agency or the juvenile intake agency 
that initiates the entry of the juvenile offender into the juvenile 
justice information system for a specific incident shall prepare a 
uniform incident fingerprint card and initiate the reporting 
process for each incident reportable under this subchapter.
	(c)  The clerk of the court exercising jurisdiction over a 
juvenile offender's case shall report the disposition of the case 
to the department.  A clerk of the court who violates this 
subsection commits an offense.  An offense under this subsection is 
a Class C misdemeanor.
	(d)  In each county, the reporting agencies may make 
alternative arrangements for reporting the required information, 
including combined reporting or electronic reporting, if the 
alternative reporting is approved by the juvenile board and the 
department.
	(e)  Except as otherwise required by applicable state laws or 
regulations, information required by this chapter to be reported to 
the department shall be reported promptly.  The information shall 
be reported not later than the 30th day after the date the 
information is received by the agency responsible for reporting the 
information, except that a juvenile offender's custody, detention, 
or referral without previous custody shall be reported to the 
department not later than the seventh day after the date of the 
custody, detention, or referral.
	(f)  Subject to available telecommunications capacity, the 
department shall develop the capability to receive by electronic 
means the information required under this section to be reported to 
the department.  The information must be in a form that is 
compatible to the form required of data to be reported under this 
section.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 262, § 53, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.           

Last modified: August 10, 2007