Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:586 – Authority to purge records of the central repository
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:586
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- bureau: means the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
- criminal justice system: means that body of agencies at the federal, state, or local level, which may legally arrest, detain, prosecute, adjudicate, treat, supervise, rehabilitate or release, or collect, store, process, transmit, or disseminate 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
Except for the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 44:9, no records of the bureau may be permanently destroyed until five years after the person identified is known or reasonably believed to be dead. Upon the official issuance of appropriate rules and regulations, the bureau may retire or remove from active dissemination to eligible agencies records of any individual beyond the age of sixty, who has had no reported criminal arrest for a period of fifteen years from the last reported official release from the criminal justice system.
Acts 1981, No. 449, §1, eff. July 1, 1981.