Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:582

  • bureau: means the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
  • criminal justice agency: means any government agency or subunit thereof, or private agency which, through statutory authorization or a legal formal agreement with a governmental unit or agency has the power of investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution, adjudication, treatment, supervision, rehabilitation, or release of persons suspected, charged, or convicted of a crime; or which collects, stores, processes, transmits, or disseminates criminal history record or crime information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
  • person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10

The bureau may accept and file the names, fingerprints, photographs, and other personal identification data submitted to local criminal justice agencies by the individuals or submitted by parents on behalf of their children for the purpose of securing a more certain and easy identification in case of death, injury, loss of memory, or change in appearance.  Upon the application of a person identified under the provisions of this Section to the local criminal justice agency, all data received under this Section with relation to him shall be surrendered to the requesting criminal justice agency.  

Acts 1981, No. 449, §1, eff. July 1, 1981.