As used in this chapter, “criminal justice agencies” are those agencies at all levels of government which perform as their principal functions, activities which either:

(a) Relate to the apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, incarceration, or correction of criminal offenders; or

Terms Used In California Penal Code 13101

  • criminal offender record information: means records and data compiled by criminal justice agencies for purposes of identifying criminal offenders and of maintaining as to each such offender a summary of arrests, pretrial proceedings, the nature and disposition of criminal charges, sentencing, incarceration, rehabilitation, and release. See California Penal Code 13102

(b) Relate to the collection, storage, dissemination or usage of criminal offender record information.

(Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 992.)

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