Texas Administrative Code › Title 37 - PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 27 - CRIME RECORDS › Subchapter E - JUVENILE JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEM › Section 27.58 - Reporting of Data to the Juvenile Justice Information System

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Juvenile offender processing data as
				  described by these sections and Texas Family Code, Title 3, Chapter 58,
				  §§58.101-58.113 must be reported by the agency responsible for the
				  data from the time a juvenile offender is initially taken into custody,
				  detained, or referred until the time a juvenile offender is released from the
				  jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system.
(b) The law enforcement agency or the
				  juvenile intake agency that initiates the entry of the juvenile offender into
				  the juvenile justice information system for a specific incident shall prepare a
				  uniform incident fingerprint card, or an electronic submission of the same
				  data, and initiate the reporting process for each incident reportable to the
				  juvenile justice information system. The initiation of reporting of each
				  juvenile offender referral to the juvenile court must be accompanied by
				  fingerprint data. The local juvenile board shall establish a process for
				  fingerprinting when a juvenile is referred to the juvenile court without having
				  first been taken into custody or detained by a law enforcement agency, and,
				  therefore, the fingerprints have not been supplied by a law enforcement
				  agency.
(c) The prosecutor
				  exercising jurisdiction over a juvenile offender's case shall ensure that each
				  disposition by the prosecutor and the date of that disposition is reported to
				  the juvenile justice information system.
(d) The clerk of the court exercising
				  jurisdiction over a juvenile offender's case shall promptly report to the
				  department the disposition of the case, including information concerning
				  custody of a juvenile offender by a juvenile justice agency or probation, the
				  date of disposition, a description of any appellate proceeding, and the name
				  and description, as described by codes assigned by the department, of any
				  program to which the juvenile offender is referred.
(e) In each county, the reporting agencies
				  may make alternative arrangements for reporting the required information,
				  including combined reporting, or electronic reporting, if the alternative
				  reporting is approved by the local juvenile board and the department.
(f) Except as otherwise required by
				  applicable state laws or regulations, information required to be reported to
				  the juvenile justice information system shall be reported promptly. Except as
				  provided below, the information shall be reported not later than the 30th day
				  after the date the information is received by the agency responsible for
				  reporting the information. A juvenile offenders' in-custody referral shall be
				  reported to the department not later than the seventh day after the referral. A
				  referral without previous custody shall be reported to the department not later
				  than the seventh day after the date the child is fingerprinted.
(g) All information to be reported to the
				  juvenile justice information system by juvenile reporting agencies may be
				  reported electronically, with the approval of the local juvenile board and the
				  department.