Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:591

  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.

It shall be the obligation of every criminal justice agency to collect and submit the name, fingerprints, description, photographs, and other identifying data on persons lawfully arrested, indicted, or taken into custody in this state as required by the bureau with respect to all offenses described in La. Rev. Stat. 15:590.  Upon notification, every criminal justice agency, coroner, correctional facility, prison, penal institution, institution for the criminally insane, or private criminal justice agency lawfully empowered to perform any arrest, detention, treatment, supervision, or any official function on behalf of the criminal justice system shall collect and report to the bureau in such manner as prescribed, any statistics, reports, lists of stolen property or fugitives, criminal history records, or any other information the deputy secretary may require under authority of any provision of this Chapter, rule, or regulation issued pursuant thereto.  In addition, each coroner shall transmit to the bureau all statistics and information as prescribed regarding autopsies performed, inquests held, and verdicts rendered.  

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