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Arizona Administrative Code
Title 13 - PUBLIC SAFETYChapter 1 - Department of Public Safety Criminal Identification Section
Article 1 - CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS
Section R13-1-101 - Definitions

Ariz. Admin. Code § 13-1-101

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Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 15, Arpil 12, 2024
Section R13-1-101 - Definitions

In addition to the definitions in A.R.S. §§ 41-1750 and 41-2201, the following definitions apply to this Chapter:

1. "Access authorization list" means a list that contains the names of agency personnel who are authorized to receive information directly or indirectly from the ACJIS network.
2. "ACJIS" means the Arizona Criminal Justice Information System, a statewide network housing various databases on persons and property in this state. The ACJIS network is maintained by the Department and is available to authorized local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies.
3. "ADRS" means the Arizona Disposition Reporting System, which is maintained by the Department and supports electronic submission of disposition information to the central state repository.
4. "ALETS" means the Arizona Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.
5. "Arizona Computerized Criminal History" means a criminal history record kept by the Department in a database of offenders arrested in this state.
6. "Arresting agency case number" means a unique combination of 15 numbers and letters used to identify a criminal justice agency's case number such as the Department case number, Department report number, or case report number. The first three characters are the AZAFIS-assigned alpha characters that identify the arresting agency.
7. "AZAFIS" means the Arizona Automated Fingerprint Identification System maintained by the Department that stores state-level arrest fingerprints and related information.
8. "AZAFIS Image Scanner" means the scanning system that scans and transmits ink and roll arrest fingerprint records.
9. "AZAFIS Livescan" means the electronic system that captures and transmits arrest information and fingerprints.
10. "CHRI" means Criminal History Record Information.
11. "Classifiable Fingerprints" means fingerprint impressions that meet the criteria of the FBI as contained in Form FD-258 (9-9-2013), U.S. Government Printing Office: 2004-304-373/80029, incorporated by reference, available from the Department and the FBI (Attn: Logistical Support Unit (LSU), CJIS Division, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, WV 26306). This incorporation contains no future editions or amendments.
12. "Date of arrest" means the date a person is taken into custody using the MMDDCCYY format as indicated in Exhibit A.
13. "Date of birth" means the subject's date of birth using MMDDCCYY format as indicated in Exhibit A.
14. "Department" means the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
15. "Disposition date" is the date of final disposition of a charge.
16. "FBI" means the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
17. "Hot files" means records entered into ACJIS. These records include those regarding wanted persons and stolen vehicles.
18. "Juvenile fingerprinted" means identification signifying that an individual is a juvenile on an arrest fingerprint card if the juvenile is being remanded as an adult.
19. "Law Enforcement Agency" means a municipal, county, or state agency with powers of arrest.
20. "LSI" means local subject identifier, a unique combination of 15 numbers and letters used by local law enforcement agencies to identify an individual. It is the local equivalent of a State Identification (SID) number. The first three characters are the AZAFIS-assigned alpha characters that identify the agency.
21. "NCIC" means the National Crime Information Center maintained by the FBI, a national repository of files on persons and property relating to a crime.

22. "NLETS" means the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, a message switching system for the interstate exchange of criminal justice information.
23. "Offender-based Tracking System" means a computer system database that indexes information from selected Arizona Criminal Justice Information System data files.
24. "Offense" means an offense listed in the Arizona Revised Statutes or a city ordinance that is used to arrest an offender.
25. "Offense type" means a designation that indicates whether an offense is a felony or a misdemeanor.
26. "ORI" means a unique identifier assigned by the FBI to an agency.
27. "PCN" means Process Control Number.
28. "Personal identifiers" means a subject's sex, race, height, weight, hair color, and eye color.
29. "Place of birth" means the state or country in which a subject of record was born.
30. "State Identification Number (SID)" means an identification number that is assigned by the Department to an individual whose set of arrest fingerprints has been submitted to AZAFIS.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R13-1-101

Section expired under A.R.S. § 41-1056(E) at 9 A.A.R. 5477, effective October 31, 2003 (Supp. 03-4). Formerly Section R13-1-01; renumbered under A.R.S. § 41-1011(C) to comply with the numbering system prescribed by the Office of the Secretary of State (Supp. 03-4). New Section made by final rulemaking at 11 A.A.R. 1550, effective June 4, 2005 (Supp. 05-2). Amended by final rulemaking at 15 A.A.R. 273, effective March 7, 2009 (Supp. 09-1). Amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 3425, effective 12/4/2022.