AN ACT
1-1 relating to the dissemination of information contained in the
1-2 juvenile justice information system.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 58.106, Family Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section [Subsection
1-8 (b)], information contained in the juvenile justice information
1-9 system is confidential information for the use of the department
1-10 and may not be disseminated by the department except:
1-11 (1) with the permission of the juvenile offender, to
1-12 military personnel of this state or the United States;
1-13 (2) to a person or entity to which the department may
1-14 grant access to adult criminal history records as provided by
1-15 Section 411.083, Government Code;
1-16 (3) to a juvenile justice agency; and
1-17 (4) to the Criminal Justice Policy Council, the Texas
1-18 Youth Commission, and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission for
1-19 analytical purposes.
1-20 (c) The department may, if necessary to protect the welfare
1-21 of the community, disseminate to the public the following
1-22 information relating to a juvenile offender who has escaped from
1-23 the custody of the Texas Youth Commission:
2-1 (1) the juvenile offender's name, including other
2-2 names by which the juvenile offender is known;
2-3 (2) the juvenile offender's physical description,
2-4 including sex, weight, height, race, ethnicity, eye color, hair
2-5 color, scars, marks, and tattoos;
2-6 (3) a photograph of the juvenile offender; and
2-7 (4) the conduct for which the juvenile offender was
2-8 committed to the Texas Youth Commission, including the level and
2-9 degree of the alleged offense.
2-10 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to
2-11 information contained in the juvenile justice information system
2-12 and collected by the Department of Public Safety of the State of
2-13 Texas before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
2-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 625 passed the Senate on
April 17, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 625 passed the House on
May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor