ORS 181.066¹
Bureau of criminal identification

(1) There is established in the Department of State Police a bureau of criminal identification which shall be operated by the department.

(2) The bureau shall:

(a) Install and maintain systems for filing and retrieving fingerprint data and supplemental information submitted by criminal justice agencies for the identification of criminal offenders as the Superintendent of State Police deems necessary;

(b) Employ its fingerprint record file as a basis for identifying individuals and provide criminal offender information to criminal justice agencies while acting in the performance of their official duties;

(c) Provide information to persons and agencies as provided in ORS 181.555 (Establishment of procedures for access to criminal record information) and 181.560 (Procedure when information requested by other than criminal justice agency); and

(d) Undertake such other projects as are necessary or appropriate to the speedy collection and dissemination of information relating to crimes and criminals. [1975 c.548 §3 (enacted in lieu of 181.065); 1975 c.605 §11a; 1981 c.905 §2]

See also annota­tions under ORS 181.065 in permanent edi­tion.

Atty. Gen. Opinions

Access to confidential crime records and reports by Oregon Law Enforce­ment Council, (1974) Vol 36, p 782; Oregon Liquor Control Commission, as a law en­force­­ment agency, (1974) Vol 36, p 1066

1 Legislative Counsel Committee, CHAPTER 181—State Police; Crime Reporting and Records; Public Safety Standards and Training, https://­www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/­bills_laws/­Archive/­2007ors181.­pdf (2007) (last ac­cessed Feb. 12, 2009).
 
2 Legislative Counsel Committee, Annotations to the Oregon Revised Stat­utes, Cumulative Supplement - 2007, Chapter 181, https://­www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/­bills_laws/­ors/­181ano.­htm (2007) (last ac­cessed Feb. 12, 2009).
 
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