Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 502 - JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY CABINET - DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE › Chapter 40 - Law Information Network of Kentucky › Section 502 KAR 40:010 - Law Information Network of Kentucky

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 16.060, 17.110
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 16.060 requires the
				Commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police to collect, classify,
				and maintain information useful for the detection of crime and the
				identification, apprehension, and conviction of criminals. KRS 17.110 requires
				city and county police to file felony arrest reports with the Justice Cabinet,
				Department of Kentucky State Police. KRS 16.080 authorizes the Commissioner of
				the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative
				regulations necessary to carry out the responsibilities of the department. This
				administrative regulation establishes the definitions to be used in the
				administration of the Law Information Network of Kentucky.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Administration of criminal justice"
			 means the detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, posttrial
			 release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation
			 of accused persons or criminal offenders. The administration of criminal
			 justice shall include criminal identification activities and the collection,
			 storage, and dissemination of Criminal History Record Information
			 (CHRI).
(2) "Criminal justice
			 agency" means a governmental agency, or a subunit thereof, which performs
			 administration of criminal justice pursuant to a statute, regulation,
			 ordinance, or executive order, and which allocates a substantial part of its
			 annual budget to the administration of criminal justice. Criminal justice
			 agency includes the Office of Attorney General, sheriff departments, law
			 enforcement agencies of a county or municipality, coroner, jailer, prosecuting
			 attorney, probation officer, parole officer, warden or superintendent of a
			 prison, reformatory, or correctional school, State Police, State Fire Marshal,
			 Board of Alcohol Beverage Control, Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and any
			 other criminal justice agency engaged in the administration of criminal
			 justice.
(3) "Criminal justice
			 information" or "CJI" means information collected by criminal justice agencies
			 that is needed for performance of their legally authorized, required function.
			 Criminal justice information includes wanted person information, stolen
			 property information, criminal history information, information compiled in the
			 course of investigation of crimes that are known or believed on reasonable
			 grounds to have occurred including the information on identifiable individuals,
			 and information on identifiable individuals compiled in an effort to
			 anticipate, prevent, or monitor possible criminal activity.
(4) "Law Information Network of Kentucky" or
			 "LINK" means the system, including hardware, software, equipment, facilities,
			 procedures, agreements, and organizations thereof, responsible for the timely
			 acceptance, processing, and subsequent dissemination of criminal justice
			 information.
(5) "Satellite agency"
			 means a nonterminal agency accessing the LINK System through a terminal
			 agency.
(6) "Terminal agency" means
			 an agency that has direct access to the LINK System via automated
			 means.