The general assembly hereby approves and the governor is authorized to enter into a compact on behalf of this state with any other state or states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:
The Contracting Parties agree to the following:
OVERVIEW
In this Compact:
(A) Means information collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, indictments, or other formal criminal charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, including acquittal, sentencing, correctional supervision, or release; and
(B) Does not include identification information such as fingerprint records if such information does not indicate involvement of the individual with the criminal justice system.
(A) Means:
(B) Includes Federal and State inspectors general offices.
(A) With respect to adults, that portion of a record that is:
(B) With respect to juveniles, whatever each State determines is a sealed record under its own law and procedure.
The purposes of this Compact are to:
(A) Information from Nonparty States; and
(B) Information from Party States that is available from the FBI through the III System, but is not available from the Party State through the III System;
(A) Administer this Compact within that State;
(B) Ensure that Compact provisions and rules, procedures, and standards established by the Council under Article VI are complied with in the State; and
(C) Regulate the in-State use of records received by means of the III System from the FBI or from other Party States;
(A) Information and records for the National Identification Index and the National Fingerprint File; and
(B) The State's III System-indexed criminal history records for noncriminal justice purposes described in Article IV;
(A) One shall be a representative of the criminal justice agencies of the Federal Government and may not be an employee of the FBI; and
(B) One shall be a representative of the noncriminal justice agencies of the Federal Government.
(A) One shall be a representative of State or local criminal justice agencies; and
(B) One shall be a representative of State or local noncriminal justice agencies.
(A) Shall be a Compact officer, unless there is no Compact officer on the Council who is willing to serve, in which case the Chairman may be an at-large member; and
(B) Shall serve a 2-year term and may be reelected to only 1 additional 2-year term.
This Compact shall take effect upon being entered into by 2 or more States as between those States and the Federal Government. Upon subsequent entering into this Compact by additional States, it shall become effective among those States and the Federal Government and each Party State that has previously ratified it. When ratified, this Compact shall have the full force and effect of law within the ratifying jurisdictions. The form of ratification shall be in accordance with the laws of the executing State.
The provisions of this Compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this Compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating State, or to the Constitution of the United States, or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this Compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If a portion of this Compact is held contrary to the constitution of any Party State, all other portions of this Compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining Party States and in full force and effect as to the Party State affected, as to all other provisions.
Source: L. 2000: Entire part added, p. 55, § 1, effective March 10.