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105TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 2022

To provide for the improvement of interstate criminal justice identification,

information, communications, and forensics.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

APRIL 30, 1998

Mr. DEWINE (for himself, Mr. HATCH, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. ABRAHAM, and Mr.

DASCHLE) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To provide for the improvement of interstate criminal justice

identification, information, communications, and forensics.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Crime Identification

5 Technology Act of 1998’’.

6 SEC. 2. STATE GRANT PROGRAM FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE

7 IDENTIFICATION, INFORMATION, AND COM8 MUNICATION.

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of

10 amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the
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1 Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Statis2 tics of the Department of Justice, shall make a grant to

3 each State, which shall be used by the State, in conjunc4 tion with units of local government, State and local courts,

5 other States, or combinations thereof, to establish or up6 grade an integrated approach to develop information and

7 identification technologies and systems to—

8 (1) upgrade criminal history and criminal jus9 tice record systems, including systems operated by

10 law enforcement agencies and courts;

11 (2) improve criminal justice identification;

12 (3) promote compatibility and integration of na13 tional, State, and local systems for—

14 (A) criminal justice purposes;

15 (B) firearms eligibility determinations;

16 (C) identification of sexual offenders;

17 (D) identification of domestic violence of18 fenders; and

19 (E) background checks for other author20 ized purposes unrelated to criminal justice; and

21 (4) capture information for statistical and re22 search purposes to improve the administration of

23 criminal justice.
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1 (b) USE OF GRANT AMOUNTS.—Grants under this

2 section may be used for programs to establish, develop,

3 update, or upgrade—

4 (1) State centralized, automated, adult and ju5 venile criminal history record information systems,

6 including arrest and disposition reporting;

7 (2) automated fingerprint identification systems

8 that are compatible with standards established by

9 the National Institute of Standards and Technology

10 and interoperable with the Integrated Automated

11 Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) of the

12 Federal Bureau of Investigation;

13 (3) finger imaging, live scan, and other auto14 mated systems to digitize fingerprints and to com15 municate prints in a manner that is compatible with

16 standards established by the National Institute of

17 Standards and Technology and interoperable with

18 systems operated by States and by the Federal Bu19 reau of Investigation;

20 (4) programs and systems to facilitate full par21 ticipation in the Interstate Identification Index of

22 the National Crime Information Center;

23 (5) systems to facilitate full participation in any

24 compact relating to the Interstate Identification

25 Index of the National Crime Information Center;
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1 (6) systems to facilitate full participation in the

2 national instant criminal background check system

3 established under section 103(b) of the Brady Hand4 gun Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note)

5 for firearms eligibility determinations;

6 (7) integrated criminal justice information sys7 tems to manage and communicate criminal justice

8 information among law enforcement agencies, courts,

9 prosecutors, and corrections agencies;

10 (8) noncriminal history record information sys11 tems relevant to firearms eligibility determinations

12 for availability and accessibility to the national in13 stant criminal background check system established

14 under section 103(b) of the Brady Handgun Vio15 lence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 note);

16 (9) court-based criminal justice information sys17 tems that promote—

18 (A) reporting of dispositions to central

19 State repositories and to the Federal Bureau of

20 Investigation; and

21 (B) compatibility with, and integration of,

22 court systems with other criminal justice infor23 mation systems;
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1 (10) ballistics identification and information

2 programs that are compatible and integrated with

3 the National Integrated Ballistics Network (NIBN);

4 (11) DNA programs for forensic and identifica5 tion purposes, and identification and information

6 programs to improve forensic analysis and to assist

7 in accrediting crime laboratories;

8 (12) sexual offender identification and registra9 tion systems;

10 (13) domestic violence offender identification

11 and information systems;

12 (14) programs for fingerprint-supported back13 ground checks capability for noncriminal justice pur14 poses, including youth service employees and volun15 teers and other individuals in positions of respon16 sibility, if authorized by Federal or State law and

17 administered by a government agency;

18 (15) criminal justice information systems with a

19 capacity to provide statistical and research products

20 including incident-based reporting systems that are

21 compatible with the National Incident-Based Report22 ing System (NIBRS) and uniform crime reports;

23 and

24 (16) multiagency, multijurisdictional commu25 nications systems among the States to share routine
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1 and emergency information among Federal, State,

2 and local law enforcement agencies.

3 (c) ASSURANCES.—To be eligible to receive a grant

4 under this section, a State shall provide assurances to the

5 Attorney General that the State has the capability to con6 tribute pertinent information to the national instant crimi7 nal background check system established under section

8 103(b) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

9 (18 U.S.C. 922 note).

10 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

11 (1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be

12 appropriated to carry out this section $250,000,000

13 for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003.

14 (2) LIMITATIONS.—Of the amount made avail15 able to carry out this section in any fiscal year—

16 (A) not more than 3 percent may be used

17 by the Attorney General for salaries and admin18 istrative expenses;

19 (B) not more than 5 percent may be used

20 for technical assistance, training and evalua21 tions, and studies commissioned by Bureau of

22 Justice Statistics of the Department of Justice

23 (through discretionary grants or otherwise) in

24 furtherance of the purposes of this section; and
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1 (C) the Attorney General shall ensure the

2 amounts are distributed on an equitable geo3 graphic basis.

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