terms (Code Financial Institutions Article, secs.
7-101 through 7-118).

CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION
ADVISORY BOARD

Chairperson: Richard W. Friedman, Executive
Director, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council

Frank J. Battaglia; Richard Doxzen; Edward P.
Jackson; Donald E. Martin; J. Hugh Nichols;
Sandra A. O'Connor; Howard M. Smith; Edmen
Tausendschoen; Col. Wilbert T. Travers, Jr.
Terms expire 1985.

Appointed by the Chief Judge of the Court of
Appeals: John F. Fader II; Robert W.
McKeever; George B. Riggin. Terms expire
1985.

Ex officio: Frank A. Hall, Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services; Stephen H.
Sachs, Attorney General of Maryland; Thomas
M. Yeager, 1986, State Senate; Joseph E. Owens,
1985, House of Delegates.

One Investment Place, Suite 700
Towson 21204 Telephone: 321-3636

The Criminal Justice Information Advisory
Board was created by Chapter 239, Acts of 1976.
For budgetary and administrative purposes only
the Board is within the Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services.

The Board advises the Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services and the Chief Judge of
the Court of Appeals on matters pertaining to the
development, operation, and maintenance of the
Criminal Justice Information System as it relates
to the security and privacy of criminal history
record information. The Board monitors the Sys-
tem; recommends procedures and methods for the
use of criminal history record information for
research, evaluation, and statistical analysis of
criminal activity; recommends legislation neces-
sary to implement, operate, and maintain the
System; and reports annually to the Governor and
the General Assembly on the development and
operation of the System.

The Secretary of the Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services and the Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals adopt rules and
regulations for the establishment, operation, and
maintenance of the System. These rules and regula-
tions include those governing the collection, re-
porting, and dissemination of criminal history
record information by the courts and all other
criminal justice agencies; those necessary to ensure

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the security of the system and all criminal history
record information; those governing the dissemina-
tion of criminal history record information consis-
tent with federal law and regulations; those gov-
erning procedures for inspecting and challenging
criminal history record information; and those
governing the auditing of criminal justice agencies
to ensure that criminal history record information
is accurate and complete and is disseminated in
accordance with provisions of the legislation.

The System's central repository is used for the
collection, storage, and dissemination of criminal
history record information. It is operated by the
Maryland State Police.

The Act provides that every criminal justice
agency report criminal history record information
to the central repository and establish time require-
ments for reporting various types of information
and reporting methods that may be used. The
Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services and the Chief Judge of the
Court of Appeals may determine the events to be
reported by each criminal justice agency to avoid
duplication in reporting.

Any person may inspect criminal history record
information maintained by a criminal justice agen-
cy concerning him or her. The person may chal-
lenge the completeness, contents, accuracy, or
dissemination of such information by giving writ-
ten notice and has a right to have errors corrected.
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 Criminal Justice Information Advisory
Board consists of sixteen members who serve
three-year terms. The Governor appoints eight
members. They include two executive officials of
police agencies, one executive official from a
correctional services agency, two elected county
officials, one elected municipal official, one State's
Attorney, and one public member. The Senate
President appoints a Senate member and the House
of Delegates Speaker appoints a House member to
serve on the Board. The Chief Judge of the Court
of Appeals also appoints three Board members
from the judicial branch of State government. Ex
officio members include the Executive Director of
the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, the
Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Ser-
vices, and the Attorney General of Maryland. The
Governor designates the chairperson (Code 1957,
Art. 27, secs. 742-755).