Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4501:2 - State Highway Patrol › Chapter 4501:2-10 - Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) › Section 4501:2-10-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
For purposes of this chapter:
(A) "Administration of criminal justice"
			 means the detection,
			 apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution,
			 adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation of accused persons or
			 criminal offenders. It also includes criminal
			 identification activities; the collection, storage, and dissemination of
			 criminal history record information; and criminal justice employment. In
			 addition, administration of criminal justice includes "crime prevention
			 programs" to the extent access to criminal history record information is
			 limited to law enforcement agencies for law enforcement programs (e.g. record
			 checks of individuals who participate in "Neighborhood Watch" or "safe house"
			 programs) and the result of such checks will not be disseminated outside the
			 law enforcement agency.
(B)
			 "Automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS)" is the system developed to
			 provide identification services to the nation's law enforcement community and
			 to organizations where criminal background histories are a critical factor in
			 consideration for employment. AFIS is a computer based system that can store,
			 process, analyze, and retrieve millions of fingerprints.
(C) "Audit" means a formal, periodic
			 examination of records to verify they are current, complete and accurate, and
			 to verify adherence with LEADS and NCIC rules, policies, and
			 regulations.
(D) "Audit trail"
			 means the recorded information tracking the responsibility for hard copies of
			 data garnered from LEADS.
(E)
			 "Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification (BCI&I)" is the agency
			 which receives and files fingerprints, photographs and other information
			 pertaining to both felony and misdemeanor arrests submitted by law enforcement
			 agencies throughout the state.
(F)
			 "Bureau of motor vehicles (BMV) or division of motor vehicles (DMV)" is the
			 state-level agency which provides vehicle licensing, titling, and registration
			 information.
(G) "Computerized
			 criminal history (CCH)" means an electronic data processing file which is
			 accessible using specific data fields. It contains records of arrests and
			 dispositions of criminal proceedings entered into the system. The repository of
			 these records is the responsibility of the bureau of criminal identification
			 and investigation as specified in sections
			 109.57 and
			 109.60 of the Revised
			 Code.
(H) "Criminal justice
			 administrator" means a person who manages and directs the affairs of a criminal
			 justice office; i.e. police chief, sheriff, highway patrol post commander,
			 administrative judge, FBI special agent-in-charge, chief probation/parole
			 officer, director of intrastate regional system, prosecutor, chief park ranger,
			 etc.
(I) "Criminal justice agency"
			 means:
(1) Courts; and
(2) A governmental or non-governmental agency
			 or any subunit thereof which performs the administration of criminal justice
			 pursuant to a statute or executive order, and which allocates a substantial
			 part (more than fifty percent) of its annual budget to the administration of
			 criminal justice.