Art. 60.21. MONITORING TRACKING; INFORMATION SUBMISSION. (a) The Department of Information Resources shall monitor the development of the corrections tracking system by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to ensure implementation of the system not later than June 1, 2005.
(b) The Department of Public Safety shall:
(1) monitor the submission of arrest and disposition information by local jurisdictions;
(2) annually submit to the Legislative Budget Board, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state auditor, and the standing committees in the senate and house of representatives that have primary jurisdiction over criminal justice and the Department of Public Safety a report regarding the level of reporting by local jurisdictions;
(3) identify local jurisdictions that do not report arrest or disposition information or that partially report information; and
(4) for use in determining the status of outstanding dispositions, publish monthly on the Department of Public Safety's Internet website or on another electronic publication a report listing each arrest by local jurisdiction for which there is no corresponding final court disposition.
(c) The report described by Subsection (b)(2) must contain a disposition completeness percentage for each county in this state. For purposes of this subsection, "disposition completeness percentage" means the percentage of arrest charges a county reports to the Department of Public Safety to be entered in the computerized criminal history system under this chapter that were brought against a person in the county for which a disposition has been subsequently reported and entered into the computerized criminal history system.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 474, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1218 (H.B. 967), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2005.
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1146 (H.B. 2730), Sec. 21.002, eff. September 1, 2009.
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