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Opinion Letter No. 95-15
May 8, 1995
Criminal Justice Agency that has Administrative Control Over Conviction
Data
Under the UIPA, an agency that has "administrative
control" over government records is deemed to
"maintain" these records and must make them available
for public inspection and copying. Various
State and county criminal justice agencies have the legal right
and the unrestricted technical capability
to access conviction data within the Offender-Based Transaction
Statistics/Computerized Criminal
History system ("Computer System"), and therefore these
agencies have "administrative control" over
the Computer System. Accordingly, these agencies were deemed to
"maintain" this record and are
required to disclose conviction data in accordance with the UIPA.
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