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AR Code § 12-12-219 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Crime Information Center|§ 12-12-219. Records of local and regional detention facilities

 (a)  (1) The Arkansas Crime Information Center shall permit and encourage the entry of data by a local or regional detention facility, such as a county jail, into a database maintained by the center and accessible by an entity as determined by the Supervisory Board for the Arkansas Crime Information Center.  (2) Data provided by a regional detention facility shall facilitate analysis of inmate populations in local detention facilities, including, but not limited to:  (A) Local or regional detention facility inmate population, including the number of inmates currently housed over the recognized maximum capacity of the local or regional detention facility; and  (B) The types and number of offenses for which the inmates are being housed in the local or regional detention facility.      (b) The types of data entered into a database under this section may include:  (1) Information concerning the inmates admitted to and released from the local or regional detention facility, including without limitation:  (A) The state identification number of the inmate;  (B) The offenses the inmates committed or were accused of committing; and  (C) The dates the inmates were both taken into custody and released;    (2)  (A) A record of any mental health screening of an inmate administered by a law enforcement agency or healthcare facility.  (B) The results of a mental health screening administered by a law enforcement agency or healthcare facility may be entered into the database as permitted by state or federal law; and    (3) Any other data that that would be of assistance to a law enforcement agency, state agency, legislative committee, academic researcher, or other entity permitted to access the data.    (c) The center shall promulgate rules necessary to implement this section.
AR Code § 12-12-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-301. Establishment

 (a) There is established a State Crime Laboratory.  (b) The laboratory shall offer services to law enforcement in:  (1) Forensic pathology;  (2) Toxicology;  (3) Physical evidence analysis;  (4) DNA analysis;  (5) Drug analysis;  (6) Latent fingerprint identification;  (7) Firearms and toolmarks analysis;  (8) Digital evidence analysis; and  (9) Other such areas as the State Crime Laboratory Board deems necessary and appropriate.
AR Code § 12-12-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-302. Board created — Members — Meetings

 (a)  (1) There is created a State Crime Laboratory Board.  (2)  (A) The members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.  (B) However, a vacancy may be temporarily filled by the Governor until the Senate shall next meet.      (b) The members appointed by the Governor shall be composed of:  (1) One (1) member of the active judiciary;  (2) One (1) practicing member of the legal profession;  (3) One (1) active county sheriff;  (4) One (1) active chief of police;  (5) One (1) active prosecuting attorney;  (6) Two (2) physicians engaged in the active practice of private or academic medicine; and  (7) One (1) member at large from the state.    (c)  (1) Appointments to the board shall be for a term of seven (7) years.  (2)  (A) All appointments made at any time other than the day following the expiration of a term shall be made for the unexpired portion of the term.  (B) If, however, the Governor shall not make an appointment by January 15 of the year in which the term expires, that member shall continue to serve until he or she is reappointed or a successor is appointed, and the term of that member shall run for seven (7) years from January 15 in the year the term expired rather than for seven (7) years from the date of actual appointment.      (d)  (1) The board shall meet and elect one (1) of its members as chair and one (1) as vice chair.  (2) The chair shall have the power to call meetings of the board upon due notice of the meeting to all members of the board.    (e) A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum to transact the business of the board.  (f) The board shall meet a minimum of one (1) time every three (3) months. Failure of any appointee to attend three (3) consecutive meetings shall constitute cause for removal from the board by the Governor.  (g) Members of the board may receive expense reimbursement and stipends in accordance with § 25-16-901 et seq. The sums shall be paid from the appropriated maintenance and general operations funds of the State Crime Laboratory.
AR Code § 12-12-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-303. Board's powers and duties generally

 (a) The State Crime Laboratory Board shall promulgate such policies and rules as shall be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this subchapter along with the specific duties and responsibilities set out in this subchapter.  (b) The board is authorized to accept gifts, grants, or funds from persons, associations, corporations, foundations, and federal or state governmental agencies and to use the gifts, grants, or funds for purposes of carrying out this subchapter or for any other purposes not inconsistent with the purposes and intent of this subchapter which may be authorized by the board.  (c) The board is further authorized by this subchapter to enter into contracts, not inconsistent with law, and to do such things as it may deem necessary or appropriate to properly carry out the purposes and intent of this subchapter.
AR Code § 12-12-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-304. Director of the State Crime Laboratory

 (a)  (1) The State Crime Laboratory shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the Governor and who shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.  (2) The director shall report to the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety.    (b) The director may delegate specific duties to competent and qualified associates, assistants, and deputies who may act for the director within the scope of the authority granted him or her, subject, however, to such rules as may be prescribed by the State Crime Laboratory Board.  (c) The board shall prescribe the duties, responsibilities, compensation, and qualifications for the director.
AR Code § 12-12-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-305. Housing and equipment — Functions

 (a) There shall be established under the supervision of the Director of the State Crime Laboratory a central office and laboratory facility sufficient and adequate to house the various functions of the State Crime Laboratory as set out in this subchapter and as may be necessary and proper for the laboratory to perform in carrying out its official duties and functions as provided by law.  (b) The laboratory shall have the equipment and personnel necessary to respond to the needs of all law enforcement agencies in the State of Arkansas with respect to the following functions:  (1) Forensic toxicology, including without limitation chemical testing and analysis of body fluids and the performance of procedures to determine the presence and significance of toxic agents both in the investigation of death cases authorized by this subchapter and in other appropriate cases;  (2) Criminalistics, including without limitation chemical testing of trace evidence, physical and microscopic analysis of evidence, latent fingerprint identification and classification, firearms and toolmarks identification, serology, DNA analysis, DNA database administration, and computer forensic analysis;  (3) Drug analysis, including without limitation analyzing and identifying substances suspected as being controlled, illicit, or contraband drugs;  (4) Pathology and biology, including the investigation and determination of the cause and manner of deaths that become subject to the jurisdiction of the State Medical Examiner under § 12-12-318 and the general application of the medical sciences to assist the criminal justice system in the State of Arkansas; and  (5) Any other laboratory divisions, sections, or functions that, in the opinion of the State Crime Laboratory Board, may serve the needs of law enforcement in the State of Arkansas for laboratory analysis.
AR Code § 12-12-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-306. State Medical Examiner

 (a) The Director of the State Crime Laboratory shall appoint and employ a State Medical Examiner with the approval of the State Crime Laboratory Board and in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety.  (b) The director may remove the examiner only for cause and with the approval of the board.
AR Code § 12-12-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-307. Medical examiners — Qualifications — Duties

 (a)  (1) The State Medical Examiner as well as associate medical examiners shall:  (A) Be citizens of the United States;  (B) Be physicians or surgeons with a doctor of medicine degree who have been licensed or who are eligible to be licensed to practice medicine in the State of Arkansas;  (C) Have a minimum of three (3) years postgraduate training in human pathology as recognized by the American Medical Association; and  (D) Have had at least one (1) year of experience in medical-legal practice.    (2) The State Medical Examiner shall also be board certified or eligible for board certification as recognized by the American Board of Pathology in Forensic Pathology.    (b) In addition to the duties prescribed in this subchapter, the State Medical Examiner and his or her associates may teach in the medical school, conduct classes for law enforcement officers and officials, lecture, do research, and engage in such activities as shall be deemed appropriate by the State Crime Laboratory Board.
AR Code § 12-12-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-308. Medical examiners — Professional liability insurance

 (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall obtain a policy of professional liability insurance in the amount of no less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) to indemnify any person or persons injured by the State Medical Examiner or his or her associates in the performance of their duties under this subchapter.  (b) The premium for the policy of insurance shall be paid from funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the maintenance and general operations of the State Crime Laboratory.
AR Code § 12-12-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-309. Utilization of outside personnel

 (a) The State Crime Laboratory Board may authorize the Director of the State Crime Laboratory to contract with a medical school in this state accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or approved by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to seek accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, or with other persons or institutions, to obtain services with which to perform the duties set forth in this subchapter.  (b) The participation of a medical school’s faculty or of any other person or institution in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter shall in no way affect tenure or any other status with the medical school or institution.
AR Code § 12-12-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-310. Reimbursement for use of outside faculty

 (a) The State Crime Laboratory shall reimburse the Graduate Institute of Technology and a medical school in this state accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or approved by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to seek accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education for the use of personnel from the institute and the medical school in performing services for the laboratory.  (b) The participation of a medical school’s faculty and institute faculty in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter shall in no way affect their tenure with the medical school and institute.
AR Code § 12-12-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity

 (a)  (1) All law enforcement officers and other state, county, and city officials, as well as private citizens, shall fully cooperate with the staff of the State Crime Laboratory in making any investigation provided for or authorized in this subchapter.  (2)  (A) The prosecuting attorney for each judicial district shall provide the laboratory each month with a list of cases having been adjudicated through plea negotiations and which require no further laboratory analysis.  (B) The monthly list shall contain the laboratory case number and will be used by the laboratory for the purpose of returning evidence on which analysis is no longer necessary, thus reducing the backlog of cases found on the evidence shelves at the laboratory.    (3) Nothing in this subchapter shall impair the authority of the prosecuting attorney to require further analysis of evidence in any case having been adjudicated through plea negotiations.  (4)  (A) Upon completion of all requested analysis of submitted evidence by the laboratory, the evidence shall be returned to the submitting agency within thirty (30) days.  (B) The submitting agency shall maintain and store evidence until released by a court of competent jurisdiction or the prosecuting attorney.      (b) Any physician or other person in attendance or present at the death of a person, or any hospital, if death occurs therein and results from such conditions and circumstances as set out in § 12-12-315, shall promptly notify the chief law enforcement official of the county or municipality which shall have jurisdiction and the laboratory of the death and shall assist in making available dead bodies and related evidence as may be requested by the Director of the State Crime Laboratory or his or her staff or by the law enforcement agency conducting the investigation.  (c) Any physician, surgeon, dentist, hospital, or other supplier of healthcare services shall cooperate and make available to the director or his or her staff the records, reports, charts, specimens, or X-rays of the deceased as may be requested where death occurs and an investigation is being conducted under the provisions of this subchapter.  (d) No person, institution, or office in this state which shall make available information or material under this section shall be liable for violating any criminal law of this state, nor shall any person, institution, or office be held liable in tort for compliance with this section.
AR Code § 12-12-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-312. Records confidential and privileged — Exception — Release

 (a)  (1)  (A)  (i) The records, files, and information kept, obtained, or retained by the State Crime Laboratory under this subchapter are privileged and confidential.  (ii) However, the laboratory shall grant access to records pertaining to a defendant's criminal case to the following persons:  (a) The defendant;  (b) The public defender or other attorney of record for the defendant; and  (c) The prosecuting attorney or deputy prosecuting attorney having jurisdiction over the criminal case.    (iii) The records, files, and information shall not be released to a person or entity other than those listed in subdivision (a)(1)(A)(ii) of this section except at the direction of a court of competent jurisdiction or the prosecuting attorney having criminal jurisdiction over the case.  (iv) In cases in which the cause and manner of death are not criminal in nature, the laboratory may communicate without prior authorization required under subdivision (a)(1)(A)(iii) of this section with the decedent's next of kin or the next of kin's designee, including without limitation:  (a) Parents;  (b) Grandparents;  (c) Siblings;  (d) Spouses;  (e) Adult children; or  (f) Legal guardians.      (B)  (i) This section does not diminish the right of a defendant, his or her attorney, or an attorney who has provided a signed release from the defendant to full access to all records pertaining to the case.  (ii) Promptly after discovering any evidence in a defendant's case that is kept, obtained, or retained by the laboratory and which tends to negate the guilt of the defendant as to the offense charged or would tend to reduce the defendant's punishment, the prosecuting attorney with jurisdiction over the case shall disclose the existence of the evidence to the defendant or his or her attorney.    (C) The Department of Health may access autopsy records, files, and information under this subchapter for the purpose of implementing the quality improvement provisions of the Trauma System Act, § 20-13-801 et seq., and the rules adopted by the State Board of Health under the Trauma System Act, § 20-13-801 et seq.    (2) However, a full report of the facts developed by the State Medical Examiner or his or her assistants shall be promptly filed with the law enforcement agencies, county coroner, and prosecuting attorney of the jurisdiction in which the death occurred.    (b) The State Crime Laboratory Board shall promulgate rules not contrary to law regarding the release of reports and information by the staff of the laboratory.  (c) All records, files, and information obtained or developed by the laboratory pertaining to a capital offense committed by a defendant who is subsequently sentenced to death for the commission of the capital offense shall be preserved and retained until the defendant's execution.
AR Code § 12-12-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs|Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations|Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory|§ 12-12-313. Records as evidence — Analyst's testimony

 (a) The records and reports of autopsies, evidence analyses, drug analyses, and any investigations made by the State Crime Laboratory under the authority of this subchapter shall be received as competent evidence as to the matters contained therein in the courts of this state subject to the applicable rules of criminal procedure or civil procedure when duly attested to by the Director of the State Crime Laboratory or his or her assistants, associates, or deputies.  (b) This section does not abrogate a defendant's right of cross-examination if notice of intention to cross-examine is given before the date of a hearing or trial pursuant to the applicable rules of criminal procedure or civil procedure.  (c) The testimony of the appropriate analyst may be compelled by the issuance of a proper subpoena, in which case the records and reports shall be admissible through the analyst who shall be subject to cross-examination by the defendant or his or her counsel, either in person or via two-way closed-circuit or satellite-transmitted television pursuant to subsection (e) of this section.  (d)  (1) All records and reports of an evidence analysis of the laboratory shall be received as competent evidence as to the facts in any court or other proceeding when duly attested to by the analyst who performed the analysis.  (2) The defendant shall give at least ten (10) days' notice prior to the proceedings that he or she requests the presence of the analyst of the laboratory who performed the analysis for the purpose of cross-examination.  (3) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to abrogate the defendant's right to cross-examine.    (e) Except trials in which the defendant is charged with capital murder, § 5-10-101, or murder in the first degree, § 5-10-102, in all criminal trials upon motion of the prosecutor the court may allow the prosecutor to present the testimony of the appropriate analyst by contemporaneous transmission from a laboratory facility via two-way closed-circuit or satellite-transmitted television which shall allow the examination and cross-examination of the analyst to proceed as though the analyst were testifying in the courtroom:  (1) After notice to the defendant;  (2) Upon proper showing of good cause and sufficient safeguards to satisfy all state and federal constitutional requirements of oath, confrontation, cross-examination, and observation of the witness's demeanor and testimony by the defendant, the court, and the jury; and  (3) Absent a showing of prejudice by the defendant.