Continuing Criminal History Records Improvement Evaluation. Final 1994-98 Report

摘要

Police officers, prosecutors, defenders, judges, and other court officials, corrections officers, probation officers, and parole officers depend on timely, complete, consistent, and accurate criminal history information. This information provides the glue for holding together a coordinated and effective criminal justice system. Moreover, criminal justice records are being accessed increasingly for official purposes outside the criminal justice system, including establishing qualifications for employment, volunteer programs, and professional licensing. Each state maintains criminal history records in a central repository, coordinating and providing them in response to requests from legitimate users. Repositories process hundreds of thousands of fingerprint and arrest records from local arresting agencies, identify offenders, process disposition reports, and attempt to match disposition reports to arrests in their databases.