Ex officio: Bishop L. Robinson, Secretary of
Public Safety and Correctional Services; J. Joseph
Curran, Jr., Attorney General; Floyd 0. Pond,
Executive Director, Governor's Office for Justice
Assistance.

P.O. Box 431
Annapolis 21404 Telephone: 974-2141

The Criminal Justice Information Advisory
Board was created in 1976 (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 Safe-
ty 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 re-
lates to the security and privacy of criminal histo-
ry record information. The Board monitors the
System and recommends procedures and methods
for the use of criminal history record information
in research, evaluation, and statistical analysis of
criminal activity. The Board also recommends
legislation necessary to implement, operate, and
maintain the System. Annually, the Board reports
to the Governor and the General Assembly on the
System's development and operation.

The Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional
Services and the Chief Judge of the Court of Ap-
peals adopt rules and regulations for the establish-
ment, operation, and maintenance of the System.
These rules and regulations govern the collection,
reporting, and dissemination of criminal history
record information by the courts and all other
criminal justice agencies; ensure the security of
the System and all criminal history record infor-
mation; and govern the dissemination of criminal
history record information consistent with federal
law and regulations. Rules and regulations of the
Criminal Justice Information System also govern
procedures for inspecting and challenging crimi-
nal history record information. In addition, they
govern the auditing of criminal justice agencies to
ensure that criminal history records are accurate
and complete, and that their information is dis-
seminated in accordance with the law.

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.

Every criminal justice agency must report crim-
inal history record information to the central re-
pository within certain time limits and by speci-
fied reporting methods. To avoid duplication in

reporting, the Secretary of Public Safety and Cor-
rectional Services and the Chief Judge of the
Court of Appeals may determine the events to be
reported by each criminal justice agency

Any person may inspect criminal history record
information concerning himself or herself that is
maintained by a criminal justice agency. The per-
son may challenge the completeness, content, ac-
curacy, or dissemination of such information by
giving written notice; and the person has a right
to have errors corrected. A person may not in-
spect any criminal history record information,
however, 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 cor-
rectional services agency, two elected county offi-
cials, one elected municipal official, one State's
Attorney, and one public member. The Senate
President appoints a Senate member and the
Speaker of the House of Delegates 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 Exec-
utive Director of the Governor's Advisory Board
for Justice Assistance, the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services, and the Attor-
ney General. The Governor designates the
chairperson (Code 1957, Art. 27, sees. 742-755).

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Board of Visitors

President: Daniel W. Moylan

First Vice-President and Chairperson of Executive
Committee: Jacob M. Yingling

Dr. Evan R. Arrindell; Edward L. Athey; Joseph
D. Baker; James A. Barrack; William 0. Carr;
Lillian dark; Charles H. Conley, Jr., M.D.;
James H. Daugherty; Elizabeth Barker
Delaplaine; Ann D. Getty; Zeiphia L. Gouldson;
Sheldon F. Greenberg; Rudolph C. Hines; J. V.
Jamison III; James M. Kaple; Margaret S. Kent;
J. Howard Leonard; Walter C. Martz II;
MaryAnna Maguire; Richard S. Mullinix;
Malcolm J. Norwood; Arthur Potts; Mary Jane
Sanders; Joseph F. Shields; Alfred P. Shockley;
W. Jackson Stenger, Jr.; Nancy Underbill; Robert
F. Wiedefeld.