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SENATE BILL 1578 |
SENATE AUTHOR: R. West et al. |
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EFFECTIVE: 8-30-99 |
HOUSE SPONSOR: Goodman |
Senate Bill 1578 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to require the office of the attorney general to establish an electronic gang resource system to provide criminal justice agencies and juvenile justice agencies with information about criminal street gangs in Texas. The system must include certain information related to gangs, and criminal justice and juvenile justice agencies are required to provide gang information to the office of the attorney general on request. The act prohibits any information related to the identity of a specific offender or alleged offender from being maintained in the system. The act prohibits access to the system by anyone other than law enforcement personnel and requires the information to be available by municipality, county, or gang name. The act directs that the information in the system be used to investigate gang-related crimes but prohibits the information from being included in affidavits or subpoenas or in connection with any other legal or judicial proceeding, unless it has been corroborated by outside information.