NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1267

SENATE BILL 504

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION THEREFOR.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 114-10 is hereby amended by renumbering sub-paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), to read (3), (4), and (5), and by inserting a new paragraph (2) to read as follows:

"(2)      To collect, correlate, and maintain access to information that will assist in the performance of duties required in the administration of criminal justice throughout the State. This information may include, but is not limited to, motor vehicle registration, drivers' licenses, wanted and missing persons, stolen property, warrants, stolen vehicles, firearms registration, drugs, drug users and parole and probation histories. In performing this function, the Division may arrange to use information available in other agencies and units of State, local and Federal government, but shall provide security measures to insure that such information shall be made available only to those whose duties, relating to the administration of justice, require such information."

Sec. 2.  Article 3 of Chapter 114 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section immediately following G.S. 114-10, to be designated as "G.S. 114-10.1", and to read as follows:

"G.S. 114-10.1.  Police Information Network. (a) The Division of Criminal Statistics is authorized to establish, devise, maintain and operate, under the control and supervision of the Attorney General, a system for receiving and disseminating to participating agencies information collected, maintained and correlated under authority of Section 114-10 of this Article. The system shall be known as the Police Information Network.

"(b)      The Attorney General is authorized to cooperate with the Department of Motor Vehicles, Department of Administration. Department of Correction and other State, local and Federal agencies and organizations in carrying out the purpose and intent of this Act, and to utilize, in cooperation with other State agencies and to the extent as may be practical, computers and related equipment as may be operated by other state agencies.

"(c)       The Attorney General, after consultation with participating agencies, shall adopt rules and regulations governing the organization and administration of the Police Information Network, including rules and regulations governing the types of information relating to the administration of criminal justice to be entered into the system, and who shall have access to such information. The Attorney General may call upon the Governor's Committee on Law and Order for advice and such other assistance that the Committee may be authorized to render."

Sec. 3.  There is hereby appropriated, for the second year of the biennium, 1970‑1971, from the General Fund of the State, to a Reserve Fund, the sum of $536,000 for the purpose of establishing said Police Information Network, to be allocated subject to the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission. There is hereby appropriated, for the first year of the biennium, 1969, 1970, from the General Fund of the State, to the office of the Attorney General of the State, the sum of $50,000, for the purpose of employing the necessary personnel and making the necessary study and plans for the implementation of the Police Information Network for the year 1970.

Sec. 4.  Article 36 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new subsection immediately following G.S. 143-340(13) to read as follows:

"(14)    To establish a coordinated system for transmission of information by communications between the various agencies, departments and institutions of the State, Local, and Federal Government, and to provide equipment, personnel and systems designed and operated in such manner as to achieve economical and effective transmission and receipt of information necessary to the duties and responsibilities imposed upon the various agencies of the State, including a network for transmission of information for use in the administration of criminal justice as administered by the Department of Justice."

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1969.