81R3896 SJM-D
 
  By: Carona S.B. No. 418
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring law enforcement agencies to compile and
  maintain certain information in a criminal street gang intelligence
  database.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 61.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection
  (b-1) to read as follows:
         (a)  Subject to Subsection (b), a criminal justice agency
  shall [may] compile criminal information into an intelligence
  database for the purpose of investigating or prosecuting the
  criminal activities of criminal combinations or criminal street
  gangs. [The information may be compiled on paper, by computer, or
  in any other useful manner.]
         (b)  A law enforcement agency shall [may] compile and
  maintain in a local or regional intelligence database criminal
  information relating to a criminal street gang as provided by
  Subsection (a).  The information must be compiled and maintained 
  [in a local or regional intelligence database only if the agency
  compiles and maintains the information] in accordance with the
  criminal intelligence systems operating policies established under
  28 C.F.R. Section 23.1 et seq. and the submission criteria
  established under Subsection (c).
         (b-1)  Information described by this article may be compiled
  on paper, by computer, or in any other useful manner by a criminal
  justice agency or law enforcement agency.
         SECTION 2.  Articles 61.03(a) and (c), Code of Criminal
  Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A criminal justice agency [that maintains criminal
  information under this chapter] may release on request [the]
  information maintained under this chapter [on request] to:
               (1)  another criminal justice agency;
               (2)  a court; or
               (3)  a defendant in a criminal proceeding who is
  entitled to the discovery of the information under Chapter 39.
         (c)  A [If a] local law enforcement agency [compiles and
  maintains information under this chapter relating to a criminal
  street gang, the agency] shall send to the department [the]
  information compiled and maintained under this chapter [to the
  department].
         SECTION 3.  Articles 61.04(b) and (d), Code of Criminal
  Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A criminal justice agency [that maintains information
  under this chapter] may release [the] information maintained under
  this chapter to an attorney representing a child who is a party to a
  proceeding under Title 3, Family Code, if the juvenile court
  determines the information:
               (1)  is material to the proceeding; and
               (2)  is not privileged under law.
         (d)  The [If a local law enforcement agency collects criminal
  information under this chapter relating to a criminal street gang,
  the] governing body of a [the] county or municipality [served by the
  law enforcement agency] may adopt a policy to notify the parent or
  guardian of a child of a local law enforcement [the] agency's
  observations relating to the child's association with a criminal
  street gang.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.