WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 84

(3) Cash receipt and disbursement records necessary for audit purposes; or

(4) A court reporter's transcript of proceedings in multiple defendant
cases.

(c) "Expungement", with respect to court records or police records, means the
effective removal of these records from public inspection:

(1) By obliteration;

(2) By removal to a separate secure area to which the public and other
persons having no legitimate reason for being there are denied access; or

(3) If effective access to a record can be obtained only by reference to
other records, by the expungement of the other records, or the part of them providing
the access.

(d) "Law enforcement agency" includes any State, county, and municipal police
department or agency, sheriff's offices, the State's Attorney's offices, and the Attorney
General's office.

(e) "Police records" means all official records maintained by a law enforcement
agency OR THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY pertaining to the arrest and detention of
or further proceeding against a person on a criminal charge or for a suspected violation
of a criminal law. It does not include investigatory files, police work-product records
used solely for police investigation purposes, or records pertaining to violations of the
vehicle laws of the State or of any other traffic law, ordinance, or regulation.

(f) "Crime of violence" has the meaning stated in § 643B(a) of this article.

(G) "CENTRAL REPOSITORY" MEANS THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE
INFORMATION SYSTEM CENTRAL REPOSITORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES.

736.

(c) The law enforcement agency shall, upon receipt of a timely filed notice,
promptly investigate and attempt to verify the facts stated in the notice. If it finds the
facts to be verified, it shall,

(1) Make a diligent search for any police records concerning that arrest,
detention, or confinement of the person;

(2) Within 60 days after receipt of the notice, expunge the police records it
has concerning that arrest, detention, or confinement; and

(3) Notify any other law enforcement agency AND THE CENTRAL
REPOSITORY it believes may have police records concerning that arrest, detention, or
confinement of the notice and its verification of the facts contained in it. A copy of this
notice shall be sent to the person requesting expungement.

(d) The other law enforcement agency AND THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY

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