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Appendix E: Excerpted State Legal Requirements for Crime Reporting
Appendix E: Excerpted State Legal Requirements for Crime Reporting
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Program draws its base authority. (The membership listing of the Association of State Uniform Crime Reporting Programs, at http://asucrp.net, was consulted to start the listing of programs.)
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the table "Offense Type by Agency, 2015" from the FBI's 2015 report of NIBRS data (published at https://ucr.fbi.gov/nibrs/2015) , which summarizes data from "all law enforcement agencies that submitted 12 months of data to the UCR Program via NIBRS and whose data were also converted to summary data for publication in Crime in the United States, 2015" (per the associated Data Declaration for the table)
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. ALABAMA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC)
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• Transfer to FBI/national compilation encouraged by law: § 41-9-621 directs the commission to "cooperate with other agencies of this state, the crime information agencies of other states and the uniform crime reports and national crime information center systems of the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation or any entity designated by the federal government as the central clearinghouse for criminal justice information systems in developing and conducting an interstate, national and international system of criminal identification, records and statistics." • State maintains own incident-based reporting system: According to the brief history section in recent Crime in Alabama volumes (e.g., Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, 2016) , ACJIC began offering a state Incident-Based Reporting System as a strictly voluntary option for agencies in the state.
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§ 12.62.110 (2014) directs the Alaska Department of Public Safety to, among other duties, "provide a uniform crime reporting system for the periodic collection, analysis, and reporting of crimes, and compile and publish statistics and other information on the nature and extent of crime in the state." Such "data regarding crimes committed within that agency's jurisdiction" "shall [be submitted]
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vests authority in the state Department of Public Safety to serve as "central state repository" for criminal justice information; this includes to "collect information concerning the number and nature of offenses known to have been committed in this state and of the legal steps taken in connection with these offenses, such other information that is useful in the study of crime and in the administration of criminal justice and all other information deemed necessary to operate the statewide uniform crime reporting program and to cooperate with the federal government uniform crime reporting program." Language passed in 1992 switched the state UCR program from voluntary response to mandatory response, with the new text of § 41-1750 continuing that the "chief officers of law enforcement agencies of this state or its political subdivisions shall provide to the department such information as necessary to operate the statewide uniform crime reporting program and to cooperate with the federal government uniform crime reporting program." • Transfer to FBI/national compilation encouraged by law: Though there is no direct statement obliging the department to transfer data to the national UCR program, the twice-occurring text on "cooperate with the federal government uniform crime reporting program" in § 41-1750 (capitalization in original) is certainly consistent with strongly encouraging submission.
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• State Statistical Analysis Center: Also housed in Department of Public Safety. ARKANSAS • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The Arkansas Crime Information Center (ACIC)
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CALIFORNIA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: California Penal Code § 13020(b) is arguably the nation's most exhaustive statute in terms of identifying entities that are required "to report statistical data" on crime to the state Attorney General.
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(i) To evaluate, on an annual basis, the progress of California's transition from summary crime reporting to incident-based crime reporting, in alignment with the federal National Incident-Based Reporting System, and report its findings to the Legislature annually through [2019]
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The act includes among its legislative findings/declarations the following: – "The Department of Justice is working with the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation and the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics to transition California from summary crime reporting to incident-based crime reporting," and – "It is the intent of the Legislature that following full implementation of incident-based crime reporting, the Department of Justice work to transition to exclusively electronic crime data collection and evaluate the potential for criminal justice statistical data to be updated on the OpenJustice Web portal at a frequency greater than once per year." The act amends the core of the state's UCR law, Section 13010 of the Penal Code, to read as shown in Box E.2, substantially revising clause (g) and adding the new clause (i)
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COLORADO • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is tasked by CO Rev Stat § 24 33.5-412(1) to, among other duties, "operate the statewide uniform crime reporting program." § 24-33.5-412(5)
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CONNECTICUT • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Connecticut's Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection is directed (CT Gen Stat § 29-1c(a)
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"For purposes of this subsection, information is missing, incomplete or incorrect if so designated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or if not submitted within sixty days of the end of the month in which such information is required to be reported." • State does not have its own incident-based reporting system, but is certified for NIBRS reporting: As of the JRSA inventory, 102 law enforcement agencies reported to the state UCR program, with NIBRS format representing 75 percent of the state's population and 59 percent of the observed crime. "By the end of 2015, 85 of 104 Connecticut law enforcement agencies were reporting NIBRS data to the statewide repository," the additional two agencies entering the Connecticut system being the Mashantucket and Mohegan Tribal Nations (Uniform Crime Reporting Program, 2016:9–10)
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FLORIDA • Local law enforcement agencies not explicitly directed by law to submit crime statistics to state entity: FL Stat § 943.05(2)
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Municipal police and county sheriff's departments reported the individual offense data known to them in the following crime categories: murder, non-traffic manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In addition, local law enforcement agencies reported supplemental offense information such as the number of victims, victim's age, sex and relationship to offender, type of weapon used, the value of property stolen and recovered, circumstances surrounding homicides and other pertinent crime data.
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: "All criminal justice agencies within the state shall submit to the center, periodically at a time and in such form as prescribed by the center, information regarding only the cases within its jurisdiction and in which it is or has been actively engaged. Such report shall be known as the ‘uniform crime report' and shall contain crimes reported and otherwise processed during the period preceding the period of report, including the number and nature of offenses committed, the disposition of such offenses, and such other information as the center shall specify, relating to the method, frequency, cause, and prevention of crime." • Transfer to FBI/national compilation required by law: Under § 35-3-33, the center is required to "cooperate with other agencies of the state, the crime information agencies of other states, and the Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Information Center systems of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in developing and conducting an interstate, national, and international system of criminal identification, records, and statistics." • State has no incident-based reporting system but has recently committed to NIBRS conversion: As of the JRSA profile, Georgia was listed as having "no plans" for NIBRS adoption, though one local agency (Norcross)
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: "Upon the request of the center, local law enforcement agencies shall periodically provide for audit samples of incident reports for the preceding reporting period so that the center may help ensure agency compliance with national and state uniform crime reporting requirements." • State Statistical Analysis Center: Part of Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinat ing Council. HAWAII • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center is established under the auspices of the state attorney general by HI Rev Stat § 846-2, and is deemed the state UCR program by § 846-2.5: Through the center, "the attorney general shall provide for the collection, recording, and compilation of data and statistics relating to crime.
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IDAHO • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: ID Code § 67-3003 directs the Bureau of Criminal Identification (of the Idaho State Police) to "establish a uniform crime reporting system for the periodic collection and reporting of crimes, and compile and publish statistics and other information on the nature and extent of crime in the state." Per § 67 3006, "a law enforcement agency shall submit to the department, at the time, in the manner, and in the form prescribed by the department, data regarding crimes committed within that agency's jurisdiction." • Transfer to FBI/national compilation encouraged by law: The state code hews to the construct of cooperation with other entities in outlining a general duty of the Bureau of Criminal Identification: "Cooperate with other criminal justice agencies of the state, state and federal courts, the criminal records repositories of other states, the federal bureau of investigation criminal justice information services, the national law enforcement telecommunications system, and other appropriate agencies and systems, in the operation of an effective interstate and national system of criminal identification, records and statistics" (§ 67-3003)
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ILLINOIS • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: In August 2015, Illinois Public Act 99-352 became law -- a broader Police and Community Relations Improvement Act that included a new Uniform Crime Reporting Act as a section. Prior to this act (which became effective on January 1, 2016)
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The Department shall submit on a quarterly basis all information collected under this paragraph (1) to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, contingent upon updated federal guidelines regarding the Uniform Crime Reporting Program; (2)
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-- except that Illinois only undertook a major "transition" in 2010, revisiting its definitions of index crimes to comport with national UCR standards.1 For example, the state UCR program began to disallow designations of "aggravated assault" in cases where the assault victim is of a certain type (e.g., a police officer or a pregnant woman) even though Illinois statute classifies those as "aggravating" factors (Illinois State Police, 2016:3,6)
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will take hold, adding a step to the requirements of any local agency or official from whom data is requested by the state UCR program: "Report to the division all uniform crime data from the federal Uniform Crime Reporting Program using the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) format as required by the division." In the FBI's compilation of 2015 NIBRS data, the Indiana State Police reported 12 months of data for each of Indiana's 92 counties, but no municipal or other law enforcement agencies in the state reported.
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IOWA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The enabling statute for Iowa's UCR program, administered by the Department of Public Safety, has a distinctive construction relative to other states. As per IA Code § 692.15: If it comes to the attention of a sheriff, police department, or other law enforcement agency that a public offense or delinquent act has been committed in its jurisdiction, the law enforcement agency shall report information concerning the public offense or delinquent act to the department on a form to be furnished by the department not more than thirty-five days from the time the public offense or delinquent act first comes to the attention of the law enforcement agency.
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KANSAS • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Two passages of state code define Kansas's incident-based UCR program. KS State § 21-2501a requires that "all law enforcement agencies .
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KENTUCKY • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Kentucky's UCR program derives its authority from KY Rev Stat § 16.060 and one of its stated duties assigned to the Kentucky State Police, wording that is reminiscent of the general charter in federal law given to the U.S. Department of Justice: The State Police are to "collect, classify and maintain information useful for the detection of crime and the identification, apprehension and conviction of criminals." To this end, § 16.130 mandates that "all peace officers of the various political subdivisions of this Commonwealth shall cooperate with the department and the Commissioner." • Transfer to FBI/national compilation required by law: "The Commissioner shall cooperate and exchange information with any other department or agency of this Commonwealth, or with other police forces, both within and without this Commonwealth and with the federal government" (§ 16.130)
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LOUISIANA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: LA Rev Stat § 15:578 vests the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information with broad authority to "establish, maintain, and regulate a modern system of telecommunication and data processing for the efficient collection, storage, and rapid transmission of criminal history record information and relevant statistics." However, clause D of the same section formally transfers "the functions, powers, and duties of the bureau related to the gathering and dissemination of data concerning parish prison population statistics and uniform crime reports" to the state's separate Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice, the primary duty of which is to coordinate the activities of the state's correctional systems. Under § 15:1204.3, legislative language that dates to 1991, "all law enforcement agencies, correctional agencies and institutions, district attorneys and municipal prosecutors, courts having criminal jurisdiction, or any other public agency dealing with crimes or criminals" are mandated to "install and maintain records needed for reporting crime incident and arrest information" and to report the same "to the commission as and
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. • Other key features: Access to crime statistics data is given unusual weight in Louisiana law, put forward as the first-listed function/power of the state UCR program: "To establish, through electronic data processing and related procedures, a system by which relevant information can be collected, coordinated, analyzed, and made readily available to serve qualified agencies concerned with the administration of criminal justice located anywhere in the state.
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MAINE • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Maine's UCR program is established within the State Bureau of Identification by 25 ME Rev Stat § 1544: It shall be the duty of all state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies, including those employees of the University of Maine System appointed to act as policemen, to submit to the State Bureau of Identification uniform crime reports, to include such information as is necessary to establish a Criminal Justice Information System and to enable the commanding officer to comply with section 1541, subsection 3 [cooperate ‘with similar bureaus in other states and with the national bureau in the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.']
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MARYLAND • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Maryland's Secretary of Public Safety is empowered to "establish and modify systems for receiving, processing, and maintaining [reports] and records of occurrences or alleged occurrences of crime and motor vehicle accidents in the State" (MD Pub Safety Code § 2-204)
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Massachusetts's UCR program is the Crime Reporting Unit of the State Police, part of the Criminal Information Section, Division of Investigative Service; the State Police department, in turn, is part of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. The Crime Reporting Unit is -- quite literally -- defined in a passage of law setting out a glossary for subsequent sections: It is "a joint project of the department of state police and the department of criminal justice information services charged with the responsibility of collecting incident reports submitted by state, local and campus police departments and other law enforcement authorities and disseminating periodic reports analyzing and interpreting crime rates and trends in the commonwealth" (MA Gen L Chap.
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Many Michigan law enforcement agencies have been NIBRS certified since the late 1990s; as of 2005, the state UCR program required to all agencies to report in MICR format. • Annual crime report required by law, specifically the passage quoted above (§ 28.252)
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MINNESOTA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Minnesota's UCR program is housed in the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in the Department of Public Safety. Its basis in law stems from text originally dating to 1927, in MN Stat § 299C.05: It shall be the duty of this division to collect, and preserve as a record of the bureau, information concerning the number and nature of offenses known to have been committed in the state, of the legal steps taken in connection therewith from the inception of the complaint to the final discharge of the defendant, and such other information as may be useful in the study of crime and the administration of justice.
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• State Statistical Analysis Center: Minnesota Office of Justice Programs. MISSISSIPPI Among the states, Mississippi is currently the lone, major anomaly in terms of crime statistics reporting: It does not have a recognized state UCR program, and its state code appears to be completely silent on crime reporting.
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MISSOURI • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Missouri law (MO Rev Stat § 43.505, text originally enacted in 2001) designates the Department of Public Safety as the "central repository for the collection, maintenance, analysis and reporting of crime incident activity generated by law enforcement agencies in this state," and this repository/UCR system is directed to be "compatible with the national uniform crime reporting system operated by the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation." The department is obligated to "develop, operate and maintain an information system for the collection, storage, maintenance, analysis and retrieval of crime incident and arrest reports from Missouri law enforcement agencies." All law enforcement agencies in Missouri are obligated to "submit crime incident reports" and "any other crime incident information which may be required" to the department, subject to the penalty of becoming "ineligible to receive state or federal funds which would otherwise be paid to such agency for law enforcement, safety or criminal justice purposes." Though the legal wording is (almost)
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MONTANA The Montana Board of Crime Control serves both as the state's recognized UCR program and its Statistical Analysis Center. The board's authority regarding crime reporting is not spelled out in state law, but instead appears to derive solely from Montana Code Annotated § 44-4-301: "As designated by the governor as the state planning agency under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended, the board of crime control shall perform the functions assigned to it under that act.
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NEBRASKA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The state Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice retains long-standing authority (NE Code § 81-1426) to "adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the standardized collection, development, and maintenance of statistical information, records, and reports, including, but not limited to, the Uniform Crime Report." Further, "it shall be the duty of all public officers and agencies, the functions of which include the control, apprehension, trial, or correction of criminal offenders in the state, to provide such information, records, and reports, including, but not limited to, the Uniform Crime Report, as the commission determines relevant to its functions." • Transfer to FBI/national compilation not apparently referenced in law.
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NEVADA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History, under the Nevada Department of Public Safety, is directed by NV Rev Stat § 179A.078 to "establish [a] Uniform Program for Reporting Crimes that is designed to collect statistical data relating to crime or delinquency of children and to facilitate the collection and analysis of statistical data relating to crime at a central location." "Each agency of criminal justice and any other agency dealing with crime or delinquency of children" is obliged to collect and submit "reports and compilations of statistical data" required by the Department of Public Safety.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: New Hampshire's UCR law was substantially revised in 2016 to etch into law that which had already been achieved: full NIBRS-format reporting. The post-July 2016 language of NH Rev Stat § 106-B:14-c is concise enough to state in its entirety (capitalization in original)
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NEW JERSEY • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Establishment of a UCR program is explicitly a duty of the state attorney general, though the law permits these duties to be designated to the New Jersey State Police, within the Department of Law and Public Safety headed by the attorney general (NJ Rev State § 52:17B-5.1,5.2)
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NEW MEXICO • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: As per NM Stat. § 29-3-11, the New Mexico Department of Public Safety "shall develop, operate and maintain a uniform crime reporting system and shall be the central repository for the collection, storage, retrieval and analysis of crime incident and arrest reports generated by all law enforcement agencies in this state.
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NEW YORK • Local law enforcement agencies not directly required to submit crime statistics to state entity: New York Executive Law § 837–4(c) directs the State Division of Criminal Justice Services to "collect and analyze statistical and other information and data with respect to the number of crimes reported or known to police officers or peace officers, the number of persons arrested for the commission of offense, the offense for which the person was arrested, the county within which the arrest was made and the accusatory instrument filed, [and]
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NORTH CAROLINA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Uniform crime reporting in North Carolina derives from a single, expressive clause in law. Since 1985, NC General Statutes § 143B-906 has held that: It shall be the duty of the State Bureau of Investigation to receive and collect criminal information, to assist in locating, identifying, and keeping records of criminals in this State, and from other states, and to compare, classify, compile, publish, make available and disseminate any and all such information to the sheriffs, constables, police authorities, courts or any other officials of the State requiring such criminal identification, crime statistics and other information respecting crimes local and national, and to conduct surveys and studies for the purpose of determining so far as is possible the source of any criminal conspiracy, crime wave, movement or cooperative action on the part of the criminals, reporting such conditions, and to cooperate with all officials in detecting and preventing.
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NORTH DAKOTA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Under North Dakota law, "criminal justice training and the collection of statistics must be conducted by the office of attorney general." "To assist in controlling crime in the state through the use of reliable statistics relating to crimes and criminal activity, the Attorney General may obtain [ from criminal justice agencies] all information the Attorney General deems necessary;" .
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. Under the law, local contribution of data to OIBRS is, strictly speaking, voluntary; any law enforcement agency that receives either "federal criminal justice grants or state criminal justice information system general revenue funds through the division" is required by law "to participate in OIBRS" or to participate "in the uniform crime reporting program of the federal bureau of investigation" (lower case in original)
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. OREGON • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Oregon's crime-reporting legislation explicitly defines the national UCR content as a subset of information required from local law enforcement agencies.
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PENNSYLVANIA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: A Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting program was first established in 1970, placed under authority of the attorney general. In 1973, authority was transferred to the Pennsylvania State Police, and current authority stems from the Uniform Crime Reporting Act enacted in 2004.
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RHODE ISLAND • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: "A uniform crime reporting system shall be established under the direction, control, and supervision of the superintendent of state police. The superintendent of state police shall have the power and duty, by any rules and regulations that he or she may deem necessary to collect and gather any information from local police departments and the enforcement division of the department of environmental management that may be and is prescribed in this chapter" (RI Gen Laws § 12-24-1)
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• State Statistical Analysis Center: Rhode Island Department of Public Safety, Grants Administration Office. SOUTH CAROLINA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The South Carolina Code of Laws grants general information-gathering authority to the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED)
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SOUTH DAKOTA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The attorney general of South Dakota, who is also designated by law as director of the state Bureau of Criminal Statistics, is directed to (SD Codified Laws § 23-6-4) : collect and compile information, statistical and otherwise, which will, as far as practicable, present an accurate survey of the number and character of crimes committed in the state, the extent and character of delinquency, [and the administration of justice]
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TENNESSEE • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Tennessee Code § 38-10-101 directs the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to "establish a system of intrastate communication of vital statistics and information relating to crime, criminals, and criminal activity." "All state, county, and municipal law enforcement and correctional agencies, and courts, shall submit [to the TBI]
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• Annual crime report required by law: By Tennessee Code § 38-10-104, the TBI "shall correlate the reports submitted" by local agencies "and shall compile and submit to the governor and the general assembly an annual report based on such reports." Said report "shall contain demographic data, including the percentage of suspects, victims, and convicted offenders based on race, gender, age, nationality, and any other appropriate demographic, as determined by the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation." • Other key features: As with some other states, failure to report crime data pursuant to the laws and regulations is subject to penalty in Tennessee: "Any officer or official mentioned in this chapter who shall have been notified and refuses to make any report or do any act required by any provision of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of nonfeasance of office and subject to removal therefrom" (§ 38-10-105)
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a goal that, not later than September 1, 2019, all local law enforcement agencies: (1) will have implemented an incident-based reporting system that meets the reporting requirements of the National Incident-Based Reporting System of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and (2)
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UTAH • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: UT Code § 53-10-202(2) directs the Bureau of Criminal Identification within the Utah Department of Public Safety to "establish a statewide uniform crime reporting system that shall include: (a)
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VERMONT • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The Vermont Crime Information Center in the Department of Public Safety is designated as the official repository of criminal justice information, but the basic enabling legislation casts the relationship between the state and local agencies as a cooperative. "All state departments and agencies, municipal police departments, sheriffs and other law enforcement officers shall cooperate with and assist the center in the establishment of a complete and uniform system of records relating to the commission of crimes, arrests," and so forth (20 V.S.A.
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. Section 52-28 makes it the duty of "all Commonwealth, county and municipal law-enforcement agencies" to provide "all periodic uniform crime reports setting forth their activities in connection with law enforcement." Further, § 52-26 authorizes the State Police to "maintain liaison and to cooperate with law-enforcement and criminal justice agencies of all counties, cities and towns and all other agencies, departments, and institutions of the Commonwealth, other states and of the United States in order to develop and carry on a comprehensive uniform crime reporting program for the Commonwealth." • Transfer to FBI/national compilation required by law: The State Police's data collection authority "includ[es]
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. • Local law enforcement agencies not required to submit crime statistics to state entity: The transfer of data to WASPC is characterized as being entirely voluntary.
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WEST VIRGINIA • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: As per WV Code § 15-2-24, "all state, county and municipal law-enforcement agencies shall submit to" the West Virginia State Police "uniform crime reports setting forth their activities in connection with law enforcement. It shall be the duty of the bureau to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations prescribing the form, general content, time and manner of submission of such uniform crime reports." • Transfer to FBI/national compilation not apparently mentioned in law.
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WYOMING • Local law enforcement agencies required to submit crime statistics to state entity: Wyo.
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• State Statistical Analysis Center: Sited separately from Uniform Crime Reporting Program, in Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming.
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