Ch. 122                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

(f) A person is not entitled to inspect or challenge any
criminal history record information pursuant to this subtitle if
the information or any part of it is relevant to a pending
criminal proceeding. This subsection does not affect any right of
inspection and discovery permitted under [Chapter 700 of] the
Maryland Rules or the Maryland District Rules, or permitted under
any statute, rule, or regulation not part of or adopted pursuant
to this subtitle.

Article 88B - State Police

9.

(a) The Department shall collect, analyze, and disseminate
information relative to the incidence of crime within the State[,
the identity of known and suspected offenders, and the arrest,
disposition, and incarceration of such offenders. All law
enforcement agencies of the State and all places for the
confinement of persons convicted of crime, including Patuxent
Institution and hospitals for the criminally insane, shall
furnish such information at such times, in such form, and to such
extent as may be prescribed by rule of the Superintendent].

10.

(a) Any information, records, and statistics collected
pursuant to this subtitle shall be available for use by any
agency required to furnish information[, to the extent that such
information is reasonably necessary or useful to such agency in
carrying out the duties imposed upon it by law]. The
Superintendent may by rule establish such conditions for the use
or availability of such information as may be necessary to its
preservation, the protection of confidential information, or the
circumstances of a pending prosecution.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved May 2, 1988.

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