By: Whitmire S.B. No. 625
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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:
1-24 (1) the juvenile offender's name, including other
2-1 names by which the juvenile offender is known;
2-2 (2) the juvenile offender's physical description,
2-3 including sex, weight, height, race, ethnicity, eye color, hair
2-4 color, scars, marks, and tattoos;
2-5 (3) a photograph of the juvenile offender; and
2-6 (4) the conduct for which the juvenile offender was
2-7 committed to the Texas Youth Commission, including the level and
2-8 degree of the alleged offense.
2-9 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to
2-10 information contained in the juvenile justice information system
2-11 and collected by the Department of Public Safety of the State of
2-12 Texas before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.