Pennsylvania Code › Title 37 - LAW › Part VIII - Automated Criminal Justice Information Systems › Chapter 601 - AUTOMATED CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS- STATEMENT OF POLICY › Section 601.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
Act
-The Criminal History Record Information
				  Act,
				  18 Pa.C.S. §§
										9101-9183.
Automated system
-A computer or other
				  internally programmed device capable of automatically accepting and processing
				  data, including computer programs, data communication links, input and output
				  data and data storage devices.
Central repository
-The central location for
				  the collection, compilation, maintenance and dissemination of criminal history
				  record information by the State Police.
Criminal history record
				  information
-Information collected by criminal justice agencies
				  concerning individuals, and arising from the initiation of a criminal
				  proceeding, consisting of identifiable descriptions, dates and notations of
				  arrests, indictments, informations or other formal criminal charges and
				  dispositions arising therefrom. The term does not include intelligence
				  information, investigative information or treatment information, including
				  medical and psychological information, or information and records specified in
				  18 Pa.C.S. §
										9104
				  (relating to scope).
Criminal justice agency
-A court, including
				  the minor judiciary, with criminal jurisdiction or another governmental agency,
				  or subunit thereof, created by statute or by the State or Federal
				  Constitutions, specifically authorized to perform as its principal function the
				  administration of criminal justice, and which allocates a substantial portion
				  of its annual budget to that function. The term includes organized State and
				  municipal police departments; local detention facilities; county, regional and
				  State correctional facilities; probation agencies; district or prosecuting
				  attorneys; parole boards; pardon boards and agencies or subunits thereof, as
				  are declared by the Attorney General to be criminal justice agencies as
				  determined by a review of applicable statutes and the State and Federal
				  constitutions, or both.
Intelligence information
-Information
				  concerning the habits, practices, characteristics, possessions, associations or
				  financial status of an individual compiled in an effort to anticipate, prevent,
				  monitor, investigate or prosecute criminal activity. Notwithstanding the
				  definition of "treatment information" the term may include information on
				  prescribing, dispensing, selling, obtaining or using a controlled substance as
				  defined in The Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act
				  (35
				  P. S. §§
										780-101-780-144).
Investigative information
-Information
				  assembled as a result of the performance of an inquiry, formal or informal,
				  into a criminal incident or an allegation of criminal wrongdoing and may
				  include modus operandi information.
Protected information
-Intelligence,
				  investigative or treatment information.
Repository
-A location in which criminal
				  history record information is collected, compiled, maintained and disseminated
				  by a criminal justice agency.
Treatment information
-Information concerning
				  medical, psychiatric, psychological or other rehabilitative treatment provided,
				  suggested or prescribed for an individual charged with or convicted of a
				  crime.