Regarding the rights of inspection and chal-
lenge, a person may inspect criminal history re-
cord information maintained by a criminal justice
agency concerning him or her. The person may
challenge the completeness, contents, accuracy, or
dissemination of such information by giving writ-
ten notice of the challenge to the central reposito-
ry and the agency where the information was
inspected if other than the central repository. The
central repository will conduct an audit of that
part of the person's criminal history record infor-
mation necessary to determine the accuracy of the
challenge. The central repository will notify the
person of the results of its audit within ninety
days after receipt of the notice of challenge. If it
is determined that the challenge is valid, the cen-
tral repository will correct its records and notify
any criminal justice agency that has custody of
the information. If the criminal justice agency has
disseminated the information, it will notify the
agency or person to whom the information was
disseminated.

If the challenge is denied, the central repository
will give written notice of the denial to any agen-
cy with which a copy of the challenge was filed.
A person may not inspect any criminal history
record information if the information or any part
of it is relevant to a pending criminal proceeding.
The Secretary of the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services and the Court of Ap-
peals adopt appropriate rules and procedures for
administrative appeals from decisions by criminal
justice agencies denying the right of inspection of
or challenges made to criminal history record in-
formation. A person aggrieved by a decision of
any administrative appeal including the central
repository and the criminal justice agency may
seek judicial review in accordance with the Ad-
ministrative Procedure Act and the Maryland
Rules.

Some portions of the legislation became effec-
tive July 1, 1976. These included the portions
dealing with the creation of the Advisory Board;
the rule-making authority of the Secretary of the
Department of Public Safety and Correctional
Services, the Court of Appeals, and the Chief
Judge; and the right of individual inspection,
challenge, and appeal (when the right of inspec-
tion or challenge is denied).

The remaining portions of the legislation be-
came effective December 31, 1977. These included

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mandatory reporting requirements of criminal
justice agencies to the Central Repository; limits
on dissemination; security requirements; and
auditing and quality control requirements (Code
1957, Art. 27, secs. 742-755).

MARYLAND SCHOOLS FOR THE
DEAF

BOARD OF VISITORS

President: J. V. Jamison, 3rd
First Vice-President: Mrs. James dark, Jr.

Second Vice-President and Chairman, Executive
Committee: Daniel W. Moylan

Secretary: Charles H. Conley, Jr., M.D.
Treasurer: Jacob M. Yingling

Joseph D. Baker, James Barrack, Mrs. Robert
Cameron, James H. Daugherty, Mrs. Margy R.
Feigelson, Rudolph C. Hines, Margaret S.
Kent, Mrs. John N. Maguire, Mrs. Wilma J.
Mause, James McSherry, Malcolm Norwood,
Arthur Potts, Alfred P. Shockley, Mrs. Sara
Simon, Ross V. Smith, James E. Soul, Richard
L. Steiner, Edward P. Thomas, Nancy Under-
hill.

David M. Denton, Ph.D., Superintendent

Frederick Campus, 101 Clarke Place
Frederick 21701 Telephone: 662-4159

Columbia Campus, P. 0. Box 894
Columbia 21044 Telephone: 465-9611

The Maryland School for the Deaf was
established in 1868 as a free public residential
school for deaf and hard-of-hearing children who
reside in the State. The Governor appoints the
thirty members of the Board of Visitors for indef-
inite terms (Chap. 247, Acts of 1867; Chap. 409,
Acts of 1868; Chap. 19, Acts of 1880; Chap. 76,
Acts of 1916; Chap. 148 as amended, Acts of
1957).

Chapter 462, Acts of 1968, established a
branch of the Maryland School for the Deaf to be
located near the population center of the State
and to be administered and operated as part of
and subject to the Maryland School for the Deaf.

The first phase of this branch school, which is
called Columbia Campus Maryland School for