§ 850. Enactment of compact. The national crime prevention and privacy\ncompact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other\njurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as\nfollows:\n The Contracting Parties agree to the following:\n NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION AND PRIVACY COMPACT\nARTICLE I. Definitions.\nARTICLE II. Purposes.\nARTICLE III. Responsibilities of compact parties.\nARTICLE IV. Authorized record disclosures.\nARTICLE V. Record request procedures.\nARTICLE VI. Establishment of compact council.\nARTICLE VII. Ratification of compact.\nARTICLE VIII. Miscellaneous provisions.\nARTICLE IX. Renunciation.\nARTICLE X. Severability.\nARTICLE XI. Adjudication of disputes.\n OVERVIEW\n (a) In general, this compact organizes an electronic information\nsharing system among the federal government and the states to exchange\ncriminal history records for noncriminal justice purposes authorized by\nfederal or state law, such as background checks for governmental\nlicensing and employment.\n (b) Under this compact, the FBI and the party states agree to maintain\ndetailed databases of their respective criminal history records,\nincluding arrests and dispositions, and to make them available to the\nfederal government and to party states for authorized purposes. The FBI\nshall also manage the federal data facilities that provide a significant\npart of the infrastructure for the system.\n ARTICLE I--DEFINITIONS\n As used in this compact:\n (a) "Attorney general" means the attorney general of the United\nStates.\n (b) "Compact officer" means:\n 1. with respect to the federal government, an official so designated\nby the director of the FBI; and\n 2. with respect to a party state, the chief administrator of the\nstate's criminal history record repository or a designee of the chief\nadministrator who is a regular full-time employee of the repository.\n (c) "Council" means the compact council established under article VI.\n (d) "Criminal history records":\n 1. means information collected by criminal justice agencies on\nindividuals consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of\narrests, detentions, indictments, or other formal criminal charges, and\nany disposition arising therefrom, including acquittal, sentencing,\ncorrectional supervision, or release; and\n 2. does not include identification information such as fingerprint\nrecords if such information does not indicate involvement of the\nindividual with the criminal justice system.\n (e) "Criminal history record repository" means the state agency\ndesignated by the governor or other appropriate executive official or\nthe legislature of a state to perform centralized recordkeeping\nfunctions for criminal history records and services in the state.\n (f) "Criminal justice" includes activities relating to the detection,\napprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release,\nprosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation\nof accused persons or criminal offenders. The administration of criminal\njustice includes criminal identification activities and the collection,\nstorage, and dissemination of criminal history records.\n (g) "Criminal justice agency":\n 1. means:\n a. courts; and\n b. a governmental agency or any subunit thereof that:\n (i) performs the administration of criminal justice pursuant to a\nstatute or executive order; and\n (ii) allocates a substantial part of its annual budget to the\nadministration of criminal justice; and\n 2. includes federal and state inspectors general offices.\n (h) "Criminal justice services" means services provided by the FBI to\ncriminal justice agencies in response to a request for information about\na particular individual or as an update to information previously\nprovided for criminal justice purposes.\n (i) "Criterion offense" means any felony or misdemeanor o
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