La. Admin. Code tit. 22 § III-1903

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024

Section III-1903 - Supervision of Data Files and Programs

A. Data files and programs used by the criminal justice system for the collection, maintenance or dissemination of criminal history record information shall be under the management control of a criminal justice agency and shall be supervised and maintained in the following manner.

1. Files shall be stored on the computer in such a manner that they cannot be modified, destroyed, accessed, changed, or overlaid in any fashion by noncriminal justice terminals.

2. The agency employee in charge of computer operations shall write and install, or cause to have written and installed, a program that will prohibit inquiry, file updates or destruction from any terminal other than criminal justice system terminals which are so designated. The destruction of files shall be limited to specifically designated terminals under the management control of the criminal justice agency responsible for maintaining the files.

3. The agency employee in charge of computer operations shall write and install, or cause to have written and installed, a classified program to detect and store for classified output all accesses and all attempts to penetrate and all accesses of any criminal offender record information system, program, or file. This program shall be available only to the agency control employee and his immediate assistant and the records of such program shall be kept continuously under maximum security conditions. No other persons, including staff and repair personnel, shall be permitted to know this program.

4. Nonterminal access to criminal offender record information such as requests for tapes, file dumps, printouts, etc., shall be permitted only with approval of the criminal justice agency having management control of the data. The employee in charge of computer operations shall forward all such requests to the criminal justice agency employee responsible for maintaining systems and data security.

La. Admin. Code tit. 22, § III-1903

Promulgated by the Office of the Governor, Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice, LR 3:454 (November 1977), amended LR 4:509 (December 1978).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 15:1204 and R.S. 15:1207.