Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 44 > Chapter 5 > Part 3 - Dissemination

• Access: means the ability to read, change, copy, use, transfer, or disseminate criminal justice information maintained by criminal justice agencies. See Montana Code 44-5-103
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Confidential criminal justice information: means :

  (a)criminal investigative information;

  (b)criminal intelligence information;

  (c)fingerprints and investigative or intelligence photographs;

  (d)criminal justice information or records made confidential by law; and

  (e)any other criminal justice information not clearly defined as public criminal justice information. See Montana Code 44-5-103

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Criminal history record information: means information about individuals collected by criminal justice agencies consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests; detentions; the filing of complaints, indictments, or informations and dispositions arising from complaints, indictments, or informations; sentences; correctional status; and release. See Montana Code 44-5-103
• Criminal justice agency: means :

  (a)any court with criminal jurisdiction;

  (b)any federal, state, or local government agency designated by statute or by a governor's executive order to perform as its principal function the administration of criminal justice, including a governmental fire agency organized under Title 7, chapter 33, or a fire marshal who conducts criminal investigations of fires;

  (c)any local government agency not included under subsection (7)(b) that performs as its principal function the administration of criminal justice pursuant to an ordinance or local executive order; or

  (d)any agency of a foreign nation that has been designated by that nation's law or chief executive officer to perform as its principal function the administration of criminal justice and that has been approved for the receipt of criminal justice information by the Montana attorney general, who may consult with the United States department of justice. See Montana Code 44-5-103

• Criminal justice information: means information relating to criminal justice collected, processed, or preserved by a criminal justice agency. See Montana Code 44-5-103
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disposition: means information disclosing that criminal proceedings against an individual have terminated and describing the nature of the termination or information relating to sentencing, correctional supervision, release from correctional supervision, the outcome of appellate or collateral review of criminal proceedings, or executive clemency. See Montana Code 44-5-103
• Dissemination: means the communication or transfer of criminal justice information to individuals or agencies other than the criminal justice agency that maintains the information. See Montana Code 44-5-103
• Fingerprints: means the recorded friction ridge skin of the fingers, palms, or soles of the feet. See Montana Code 44-5-103
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Public criminal justice information: means :

  (a)information made public by law;

  (b)information of court records and proceedings;

  (c)information of convictions, deferred sentences, and deferred prosecutions;

  (d)information of postconviction proceedings and status;

  (e)information originated by a criminal justice agency, including:

  (i)initial offense reports;

  (ii)initial arrest records, including booking photographs;

  (iii)bail records; and

  (iv)daily jail occupancy rosters;

  (f)information considered necessary by a criminal justice agency to secure public assistance in the apprehension of a suspect; or

  (g)statistical information. See Montana Code 44-5-103

• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Statistical information: means data derived from records in which individuals are not identified or identification is deleted and from which neither individual identity nor any other unique characteristic that could identify an individual is ascertainable. See Montana Code 44-5-103