Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations

§ 12-12-104. Physical evidence in sex offense or violent offense prosecutions — Retention and disposition — Definitions - (a) In a prosecution for a sex offense or a...

§ 12-12-105. Controlled substance laboratory seizure reports - (a) Each state and local law enforcement agency shall electronically...

§ 12-12-106. Investigations of an alleged sex offense - (a) A law enforcement officer, prosecuting attorney, or other government...

§ 12-12-107. Adult abuse and domestic violence reporting — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Adult” means an...

§ 12-12-108. Domestic violence investigation - (a) When a law enforcement agency responds to a report...

§ 12-12-109. Domestic violence investigation — Victimless prosecution - (a) A law enforcement agency that investigates a complaint or...

§ 12-12-110. Missing or unidentified persons — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Missing person” means...

Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Crime Information Center

§ 12-12-201. Creation — Director - (a) There is created the Arkansas Crime Information Center, under...

§ 12-12-202. Supervisory board — Members — Meetings - (a) There is created a Supervisory Board for the Arkansas...

§ 12-12-203. Supervisory board — Duties - (a) The duties and responsibilities of the Supervisory Board for...

§ 12-12-205. Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse — Definitions - (a) There is created a Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse within...

§ 12-12-206. Data processing — Supervision - (a) All data files and computer programs making up the...

§ 12-12-207. Maintenance and operation of information system - (a) The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall be responsible for...

§ 12-12-208. Coordination with national crime control information systems - (a) (1) The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall be the...

§ 12-12-209. Duty to furnish data - (a) (1) It shall be the duty of all county...

§ 12-12-210. Special information services agents - (a) To ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of all...

§ 12-12-211. Access to records - (a) (1) The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall make criminal...

§ 12-12-212. Release or disclosure to unauthorized person — Penalty - (a) A person is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor...

§ 12-12-213. Invasion of privacy prohibited - Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to give authority...

§ 12-12-214. Fees from localities — Disposition - (a) The Arkansas Crime Information Center is authorized to charge...

§ 12-12-215. Registry of orders of protection - (a) In addition to other duties as provided, the Arkansas...

§ 12-12-216. Carry forward - (a) At the close of each fiscal year, the Director...

§ 12-12-217. Annual report - (a) On July 31 of each year the Arkansas Crime...

§ 12-12-218. Registry of certain court orders — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “center system” means the...

§ 12-12-219. Records of local and regional detention facilities - (a) (1) The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall permit and...

Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory

§ 12-12-301. Establishment - (a) There is established a State Crime Laboratory. (b) The...

§ 12-12-302. Board created — Members — Meetings - (a) (1) There is created a State Crime Laboratory Board....

§ 12-12-303. Board's powers and duties generally - (a) The State Crime Laboratory Board shall promulgate such policies...

§ 12-12-304. Director of the State Crime Laboratory - (a) (1) The State Crime Laboratory shall be headed by...

§ 12-12-305. Housing and equipment — Functions - (a) There shall be established under the supervision of the...

§ 12-12-306. State Medical Examiner - (a) The Director of the State Crime Laboratory shall appoint...

§ 12-12-307. Medical examiners — Qualifications — Duties - (a) (1) The State Medical Examiner as well as associate...

§ 12-12-308. Medical examiners — Professional liability insurance - (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall obtain a policy of...

§ 12-12-309. Utilization of outside personnel - (a) The State Crime Laboratory Board may authorize the Director...

§ 12-12-310. Reimbursement for use of outside faculty - (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall reimburse the Graduate Institute...

§ 12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity - (a) (1) All law enforcement officers and other state, county,...

§ 12-12-312. Records confidential and privileged — Exception — Release - (a) (1) (A) (i) The records, files, and information kept,...

§ 12-12-313. Records as evidence — Analyst's testimony - (a) The records and reports of autopsies, evidence analyses, drug...

§ 12-12-314. Fees — Disposition - (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall charge certain fees in...

§ 12-12-315. Notification of certain deaths - (a) (1) The county coroner, prosecuting attorney, and either the...

§ 12-12-316. Transportation of corpses - (a) The State Crime Laboratory is authorized to transport bodies...

§ 12-12-317. Death certificates - (a) Except as provided under subsection (b) of this section,...

§ 12-12-318. Examinations, investigations, and postmortem examinations — Authorization and restrictions - (a) (1) When death occurs in such a manner or...

§ 12-12-319. Embalming corpse subject to examination, investigation, or autopsy — Penalty - (a) It shall be unlawful to embalm a dead body...

§ 12-12-320. Autopsies — Removal of pituitary gland - (a) The State Medical Examiner and his or her assistants...

§ 12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies - (a) Where death occurs under such circumstances as are set...

§ 12-12-322. Hazardous duty pay - (a) (1) The State Crime Laboratory is authorized to provide...

§ 12-12-323. Crime Lab Equipment Fund - (a) There is created the Crime Lab Equipment Fund on...

§ 12-12-324. Testing by State Crime Laboratory - (a) A firearm used in the commission of a crime...

§ 12-12-326. Autopsies — Line-of-duty death — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Eligible person” means...

Subchapter 4 - Sexual Assault — Medical-Legal Examinations

§ 12-12-401. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Appropriate emergency medical-legal...

§ 12-12-402. Procedures governing medical treatment - (a) All medical facilities or licensed healthcare providers conducting medical-legal...

§ 12-12-403. Examinations and treatment — Payment - (a) All licensed emergency departments shall provide prompt, appropriate emergency...

§ 12-12-404. Reimbursement of medical facility — Rules - (a) The Crime Victims Reparations Board may reimburse any medical...

§ 12-12-405. License suspension or revocation - Noncompliance with the provisions of this subchapter is grounds for...

§ 12-12-406. Sexual assault collection kits — Submission for testing — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Anonymous kit” means...

Subchapter 6 - Knife and Gunshot Wound Reporting

§ 12-12-601. Penalty - Any person violating any provision of this subchapter shall be...

§ 12-12-602. Report of treatment required - (a) All physicians, surgeons, hospitals, druggists, or other persons or...

§ 12-12-603. Contents and time of report - (a) The report shall be made immediately upon the nature...

Subchapter 7 - Psychological Stress Tests

§ 12-12-701. Authorization - Notwithstanding the provisions of the Polygraph Examiners Licensing Act, §...

§ 12-12-702. Warnings - Prior to administering any psychological evaluation tests, the person to...

§ 12-12-703. Minors - No psychological stress evaluation shall be given to any person...

§ 12-12-704. Results inadmissible - The results of any such examination as provided in this...

Subchapter 8 - Missing Children

§ 12-12-801. Report of missing child — Notation on records - (a) When either a law enforcement officer or the Attorney...

§ 12-12-802. Request for birth certificate — Notification of law enforcement officer or Attorney General - (a) When the Division of Vital Records of the Department...

§ 12-12-803. Request for school records — Notification of law enforcement officer or Attorney General - (a) When a school receives a request for the records...

Subchapter 9 - Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997

§ 12-12-901. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 12-12-902. Legislative findings - The General Assembly finds that sex offenders pose a high...

§ 12-12-903. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Adjudication of guilt” or...

§ 12-12-904. Failure to comply with registration and reporting requirements — Refusal to cooperate with assessment process - (a) (1) (A) A person is guilty of a Class...

§ 12-12-905. Applicability - (a) The registration or registration verification requirements of this subchapter...

§ 12-12-906. Duty to register or verify registration generally — Review of requirements with offenders - (a) (1) (A) (i) At the time of adjudication of...

§ 12-12-907. Report to Arkansas Crime Information Center — Report to law enforcement agency - (a) (1) Within three (3) days after registering or updating...

§ 12-12-908. Registration format — Requirements - (a) The Director of the Arkansas Crime Information Center shall...

§ 12-12-909. Verification form — Change of address - (a) (1) A sex offender required to register under this...

§ 12-12-910. Fine - (a) The sentencing court shall assess at the time of...

§ 12-12-911. Sex and Child Offenders Registration Fund - (a) There is established on the books of the Treasurer...

§ 12-12-912. Arrests for violations - (a) In order for a sex offender to be charged...

§ 12-12-913. Disclosure - (a) (1) Registration records maintained pursuant to this subchapter shall...

§ 12-12-914. Notice of release - (a) (1) The Division of Correction shall provide notice by...

§ 12-12-915. Authority — Rules - (a) The Division of Correction, the Division of Community Correction,...

§ 12-12-916. Publication and notice of obligation to register - The Office of Driver Services of the Department of Finance...

§ 12-12-917. Evaluation protocol — Sexually dangerous persons — Juveniles adjudicated delinquent — Examiners - (a) (1) The Sex Offender Assessment Committee shall develop an...

§ 12-12-918. Classification as sexually dangerous person - (a) (1) In order to classify a person as a...

§ 12-12-919. Termination of obligation to register - (a) Lifetime registration is required for a sex offender who:...

§ 12-12-920. Immunity from civil liability - (a) Public officials, public employees, and public agencies are immune...

§ 12-12-921. Sex Offender Assessment Committee - (a) The Sex Offender Assessment Committee shall consist of nine...

§ 12-12-922. Alternative procedure for sexually dangerous person evaluations — Administrative review of assigned risk level - (a) (1) The alternative procedure under this section may be...

§ 12-12-923. Electronic monitoring of sex offenders - (a) (1) Upon release from incarceration, a sex offender determined...

§ 12-12-924. Disclosure and notification concerning out-of-state sex offenders moving into Arkansas - (a) A local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where an...

§ 12-12-925. Travel outside of the United States - (a) A sex offender who is required to register under...

§ 12-12-926. Release of motor vehicle records by the Department of Finance and Administration - (a) The Department of Finance and Administration may release to...

§ 12-12-927. Medicaid services by sex offender prohibited - If a court has entered an order requiring a person...

§ 12-12-928. Prohibition against recording a person under 14 years of age — Notification - A person required to register as a sex offender under...

§ 12-12-929. Registered offender prohibited from holding position of public trust — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “position of public trust”...

Subchapter 10 - Criminal History Information and Reporting Standards

§ 12-12-1001. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Administration of criminal...

§ 12-12-1002. Penalties - (a) Upon conviction, any criminal justice agency or official subject...

§ 12-12-1003. Scope - (a) This subchapter governs the: (1) Collection, maintenance, and dissemination...

§ 12-12-1004. Completeness and accuracy - (a) The Arkansas Crime Information Center and the State Crime...

§ 12-12-1005. Identification Bureau - (a) The Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State...

§ 12-12-1006. Fingerprinting, DNA sample collection, and photographing - (a) (1) (A) Immediately following an arrest for an offense,...

§ 12-12-1007. Reporting requirements - (a) Certain events occurring during the course of a criminal...

§ 12-12-1008. Dissemination for criminal justice purposes - (a) Pending information, conviction information, and nonconviction information available through...

§ 12-12-1009. Dissemination of conviction information for noncriminal justice purposes - (a) Conviction information shall be made available for the following...

§ 12-12-1010. Dissemination of criminal history information for other purposes - (a) (1) Criminal history information shall be made available to...

§ 12-12-1011. Dissemination limited - (a) Release of criminal history information for noncriminal justice purposes...

§ 12-12-1012. Fees for noncriminal justice record searches - (a) (1) (A) A fee may be charged for providing...

§ 12-12-1013. Right of review and challenge - (a) (1) A person, upon positive verification of his or...

§ 12-12-1014. Security of criminal history information - (a) The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall be authorized to...

§ 12-12-1015. Audit of criminal history records - (a) The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall be authorized to...

§ 12-12-1016. Powers and duties of State Crime Laboratory - In addition to any other power or duty conferred by...

§ 12-12-1017. Procedures for conduct, disposition, and use of DNA analysis - (a) (1) The State Crime Laboratory shall promulgate rules governing...

§ 12-12-1018. Receipt and analysis of DNA samples — Availability of information - (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall: (1) Receive, store, and...

§ 12-12-1019. Removal and destruction of the DNA record and DNA sample - (a) Any person whose DNA record is included in the...

Subchapter 11 - State Convicted Offender DNA Data Base Act

§ 12-12-1101. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 12-12-1102. Purpose - The General Assembly finds and declares that: (1) DNA data...

§ 12-12-1103. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Adjudication of guilt” and...

§ 12-12-1104. Powers and duties of State Crime Laboratory - In addition to any other powers and duties conferred by...

§ 12-12-1105. State DNA Data Base - (a) (1) There is established the State DNA Data Base....

§ 12-12-1106. State DNA Data Bank - (a) There is established the State DNA Data Bank. (b)...

§ 12-12-1107. State Crime Laboratory recommendation of additional offenses - (a) The State Crime Laboratory may recommend to the General...

§ 12-12-1108. Procedural compatibility with the Federal Bureau of Investigation - The DNA identification system as established by the State Crime...

§ 12-12-1109. DNA sample required upon adjudication of guilt - (a) A person who is adjudicated guilty for a qualifying...

§ 12-12-1110. Procedures of withdrawal, collection, and transmission of DNA samples - (a) (1) (A) Each DNA sample required to be taken...

§ 12-12-1111. Procedures for conduct, disposition, and use of DNA analysis - (a) (1) The State Crime Laboratory shall adopt rules governing...

§ 12-12-1112. Receipt and analysis of DNA samples — Availability of information - (a) Receipt of DNA Samples by State Crime Laboratory. (1)...

§ 12-12-1113. Removal and destruction of the DNA record and DNA sample - (a) (1) Any person whose DNA record has been included...

§ 12-12-1114. Confidentiality - (a) All DNA profiles and samples submitted to the State...

§ 12-12-1115. Prohibition against disclosure - (a) (1) Any person who by virtue of employment or...

§ 12-12-1116. Prohibition against disclosure for pecuniary gain - Upon conviction, a person is guilty of a Class D...

§ 12-12-1117. Injunctions - The State Crime Laboratory or any other aggrieved individual or...

§ 12-12-1118. Mandatory cost - (a) Unless finding that undue hardship would result, the sentencing...

§ 12-12-1119. DNA Detection Fund - (a) There is hereby established on the books of the...

§ 12-12-1120. Authority of law enforcement officers - Nothing in this subchapter shall limit or abrogate any existing...

Subchapter 12 - Victim Notification System

§ 12-12-1201. Authorization - The Arkansas Crime Information Center is authorized to develop and...

§ 12-12-1202. Information provided - (a) A victim notification may be accomplished by means of...

Subchapter 14 - Task Force on Racial Profiling

§ 12-12-1401. Definition - (a) As used in this subchapter, “racial profiling” means the...

§ 12-12-1402. Prohibition on racial profiling - (a) No member of the Division of Arkansas State Police,...

§ 12-12-1403. Policies - (a) The Division of Arkansas State Police, the Arkansas Highway...

§ 12-12-1404. Training - (a) Each law enforcement agency shall provide annual training to...

§ 12-12-1405. Racial profiling hotline - (a) (1) The Attorney General shall establish and publish procedures...

Subchapter 15 - Arkansas State Criminal Records Act

§ 12-12-1501. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas State Criminal...

§ 12-12-1502. Intent - (a) It is the intent of this subchapter to: (1)...

§ 12-12-1503. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Administration of criminal justice”...

§ 12-12-1504. Information required — Exceptions - (a) The Department of Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas...

§ 12-12-1505. Disposition of data to the central repository - (a) Criminal history information shall be submitted to the Arkansas...

§ 12-12-1506. Unrestricted information — Records — Immunity from civil liability - (a) (1) All conviction information and felony arrest records may...

§ 12-12-1507. Administration - (a) (1) Release of criminal history information under this subchapter...

§ 12-12-1508. Access to information — Fee - (a) Criminal history information or requestor information collected and maintained...

§ 12-12-1509. Right of review and challenge - (a) (1) A person may review and challenge his or...

§ 12-12-1510. Fees - (a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this...

§ 12-12-1511. Penalty - Any person who shall knowingly release or disclose to any...

§ 12-12-1512. Rules - The Division of Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Crime...

§ 12-12-1513. Status as a registered sex offender - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) The fact that...

Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act

§ 12-12-1601. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 12-12-1602. Purpose - The purpose of this subchapter is to allow volunteer organizations...

§ 12-12-1603. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Children” means individuals under...

§ 12-12-1604. Authority - (a) The Department of Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas...

§ 12-12-1605. Registration by volunteer organization - (a) A volunteer organization desiring to obtain criminal background check...

§ 12-12-1606. Request for criminal background check - (a) (1) Any volunteer organization registered to obtain criminal background...

§ 12-12-1607. Background checks - (a) (1) Upon receipt of a proper request from a...

§ 12-12-1608. Penalty - The following acts are a Class A misdemeanor: (1) Knowingly...

§ 12-12-1609. Fees - (a) (1) The Department of Arkansas State Police may charge...

§ 12-12-1610. Extent of disclosure - (a) The Department of Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas...

Subchapter 17 - Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act

§ 12-12-1701. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 12-12-1702. Purpose - The purpose of this subchapter is to: (1) Provide a...

§ 12-12-1703. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Abuse” means with...

§ 12-12-1704. Spiritual treatment alone not abusive - Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to mean that...

§ 12-12-1705. Privilege not grounds for exclusion of evidence - Any privilege between husband and wife or between any professional...

§ 12-12-1706. Civil penalties - (a) (1) The State of Arkansas and the Attorney General...

§ 12-12-1707. Adult and long-term care facility resident maltreatment hotline - (a) The Department of Human Services shall maintain a single...

§ 12-12-1708. Persons required to report adult or long-term care facility resident maltreatment - (a) (1) Whenever any of the following persons has observed...

§ 12-12-1709. Report of death caused by maltreatment - (a) (1) Any person or official who is required to...

§ 12-12-1710. Investigation by Department of Human Services - (a) The Department of Human Services shall have jurisdiction to...

§ 12-12-1711. Procedures for investigation by the Department of Human Services - (a) The Department of Human Services shall conduct a thorough...

§ 12-12-1712. Photographs and X-rays - (a) Any person who is required to report a case...

§ 12-12-1713. Immunity for investigation participants - (a) Any person, official, or institution acting in good faith...

§ 12-12-1714. Investigative powers of the Department of Human Services - (a) If admission cannot be obtained to a home, an...

§ 12-12-1715. Rights of subject of report — Investigative determination of the Department of Human Services — Notice of finding — Appeal - (a) Upon completion of an investigation, the Department of Human...

§ 12-12-1716. Adult and Long-term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Central Registry - (a) (1) There is established within the Department of Human...

§ 12-12-1717. Availability of founded reports of adult or long-term care facility resident maltreatment - (a) A report made under this subchapter that is determined...

§ 12-12-1718. Availability of screened-out, pending, and unfounded reports - (a) A record of a screened-out report of adult maltreatment...

§ 12-12-1719. Delegation of authority - The Secretary of the Department of Human Services may assign...

§ 12-12-1720. Penalties - (a) (1) A person commits the offense of failure to...

§ 12-12-1721. Reports as evidence - (a) A written report from a person or official required...

§ 12-12-1722. Services available on investigative finding of founded or unfounded - (a) If an investigation under this subchapter is determined to...

§ 12-12-1723. Rules - The Secretary of the Department of Human Services may adopt...

Subchapter 18 - Automatic License Plate Reader System Act

§ 12-12-1801. Title - This subchapter is known and may be cited as the...

§ 12-12-1802. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Alert” means data held...

§ 12-12-1803. Restrictions on use - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

§ 12-12-1804. Protections - (a) Captured plate data obtained for the purposes described under...

§ 12-12-1805. Practice and usage data preservation - (a) An entity that uses an automatic license plate reader...

§ 12-12-1806. Use of data and data-derived evidence - Captured plate data and evidence derived from it shall not...

§ 12-12-1807. Penalties - (a) A person who violates this subchapter shall be subject...

§ 12-12-1808. Privacy - (a) (1) Captured plate data or data obtained from the...

Subchapter 19 - Location Information of Wireless Telecommunications Device and Geolocation of Internet Protocol Address in Emergency Situation

§ 12-12-1901. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Commercial mobile radio service”...

§ 12-12-1902. Commercial mobile radio service or internet service provider to provide information upon request - (a) Upon request of a law enforcement agency, a commercial...

§ 12-12-1903. Limitation of liability - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a commercial mobile radio...

§ 12-12-1904. Providers to submit contact information to Arkansas Crime Information Center - A commercial mobile radio service provider or internet service provider...

§ 12-12-1905. Additional duties of Arkansas Crime Information Center - The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall make available the contact...

§ 12-12-1906. Prohibition against abuse - (a) A commercial mobile radio service provider or internet service...

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Arkansas Code Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations

Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations