(a) Law enforcement officers and other juvenile justice personnel shall collect information described by § 58.104 as a part of the juvenile justice information system created under Subchapter B.
(b) Repealed by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 746 (S.B. 1304), Sec. 21(1), eff. September 1, 2017.

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(c) A law enforcement agency shall forward information, including fingerprints, relating to a child who has been taken into custody under § 52.01 by the agency to the Department of Public Safety for inclusion in the juvenile justice information system created under Subchapter B, but only if the child is referred to juvenile court on or before the 10th day after the date the child is taken into custody under § 52.01. If the child is not referred to juvenile court within that time, the law enforcement agency shall destroy all information, including photographs and fingerprints, relating to the child unless the child is placed in a first offender program under § 52.031 or on informal disposition under § 52.03. The law enforcement agency may not forward any information to the Department of Public Safety relating to the child while the child is in a first offender program under § 52.031, or during the 90 days following successful completion of the program or while the child is on informal disposition under § 52.03. Except as provided by Subsection (f), after the date the child completes an informal disposition under § 52.03 or after the 90th day after the date the child successfully completes a first offender program under § 52.031, the law enforcement agency shall destroy all information, including photographs and fingerprints, relating to the child.
(d) If information relating to a child is contained in a document that also contains information relating to an adult and a law enforcement agency is required to destroy all information relating to the child under this section, the agency shall alter the document so that the information relating to the child is destroyed and the information relating to the adult is preserved.
(e) The deletion of a computer entry constitutes destruction of the information contained in the entry.
(f) A law enforcement agency may maintain information relating to a child after the 90th day after the date the child successfully completes a first offender program under § 52.031 only to determine the child’s eligibility to participate in a first offender program.