Art. 60.12. FINGERPRINT AND ARREST INFORMATION IN COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM. (a) The Department of Public Safety shall, when a jurisdiction transmits fingerprints and arrest information by a remote terminal accessing the statewide automated fingerprint identification system, use that transmission either to create a permanent record in the criminal justice information system or to create a temporary arrest record in the criminal justice information system to be maintained by the department until the department receives and processes the physical copy of the arrest information.
(b) The Department of Public Safety shall make available to a criminal justice agency making a background criminal inquiry any information contained in a temporary arrest record maintained by the department, including a statement that a physical copy of the arrest information was not available at the time the information was entered in the system.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 10, Sec. 7.05, eff. Dec. 1, 1991. Subsec. (a) amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 790, Sec. 40, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 1025, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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