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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5179

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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Senators Costa, Roach, Constantine, McCaslin, Fairley, Sheahan, Hargrove, Rasmussen, Kline, Gardner, Eide, Haugen, Franklin, Johnson, McAuliffe and Kohl‑Welles)

READ FIRST TIME 01/31/01.

_1 AN ACT Relating to adding a victim notification system to the

_2 state jail booking and reporting system; amending RCW 36.28A.040;

_3 and adding a new section to chapter 36.28A RCW.

_4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

_5 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 36.28A

_6 RCW to read as follows:

_7 (1) The Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs

_8 shall integrate a victim notification system into its electronic

_9 statewide city and county jail booking and reporting system

10 described in RCW 36.28A.040.

11 (2) At a minimum, the victim notification system shall provide

12 to victims of crime who have made a notification request,

13 notification of information received by the statewide city and

14 county jail booking and reporting system about the release or

15 transfer of an incarcerated person from a local jail, juvenile

16 detention facility, or release from a partial confinement program

17 operated by a city or county.

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_1 Sec. 2. RCW 36.28A.040 and 2000 c 3 s 1 are each amended to read

_2 as follows:

_3 (1) No later than ((~~December 31, 2001~~)) July 1, 2002, the

_4 Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs shall

_5 implement and operate an electronic statewide city and county jail

_6 booking and reporting system. The system shall serve as a central

_7 repository and instant information source for offender information

_8 and jail statistical data. The system shall be placed on the

_9 Washington state justice information network and be capable of

10 communicating electronically with every Washington state city and

11 county jail and with all other Washington state criminal justice

12 agencies as defined in RCW 10.97.030.

13 (2) After the Washington association of sheriffs and police

14 chiefs has implemented an electronic jail booking system as

15 described in subsection (1) of this section, if a city or county

16 jail or law enforcement agency receives state or federal funding

17 to cover the entire cost of implementing or reconfiguring an

18 electronic jail booking system, the city or county jail or law

19 enforcement agency shall implement or reconfigure an electronic

20 jail booking system that is in compliance with the jail booking

21 system standards developed pursuant to subsection (4) of this

22 section.

23 (3) After the Washington association of sheriffs and police

24 chiefs has implemented an electronic jail booking system as

25 described in subsection (1) of this section, city or county jails,

26 or law enforcement agencies that operate electronic jail booking

27 systems, but choose not to accept state or federal money to

28 implement or reconfigure electronic jail booking systems, shall

29 electronically forward jail booking information to the Washington

30 association of sheriffs and police chiefs. At a minimum the

31 information forwarded shall include the name of the offender,

32 vital statistics, the date the offender was arrested, the offenses

33 arrested for, the date and time an offender is released or

34 transferred from a city or county jail, a city or county juvenile

35 detention facility, or a partial confinement program that is

36 operated by a city or county, and if available, the mug shot. The

37 electronic format in which the information is sent shall be at the

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_1 discretion of the city or county jail, or law enforcement agency

_2 forwarding the information. City and county jails or law

_3 enforcement agencies that forward jail booking information under

_4 this subsection are not required to comply with the standards

_5 developed under subsection (4)(b) of this section.

_6 (4) The Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs

_7 shall appoint, convene, and manage a statewide jail booking and

_8 reporting system standards committee. The committee shall include

_9 representatives from the Washington association of sheriffs and

10 police chiefs correction committee, the information service

11 board's justice information committee, the judicial information

12 system, at least two individuals who serve as jailers in a city or

13 county jail, and other individuals that the Washington association

14 of sheriffs and police chiefs places on the committee. The

15 committee shall have the authority to:

16 (a) Develop and amend as needed standards for the statewide

17 jail booking and reporting system and for the information that

18 must be contained within the system. At a minimum, the system shall

19 contain:

20 (i) The offenses the individual has been charged with;

21 (ii) Descriptive and personal information about each offender

22 booked into a city or county jail. At a minimum, this information

23 shall contain the offender's name, vital statistics, address, and

24 mugshot;

25 (iii) Information about the offender while in jail, which could

26 be used to protect criminal justice officials that have future

27 contact with the offender, such as medical conditions, acts of

28 violence, and other behavior problems;

29 (iv) Statistical data indicating the current capacity of each

30 jail and the quantity and category of offenses charged; ((~~and~~))

31 (v) The ability to communicate directly and immediately with

32 the city and county jails and other criminal justice entities; and

33 (vi) The date and time that an offender was released or

34 transferred from a local jail, juvenile detention facility, or

35 released from a partial confinement program operated by a city or

36 county;

37 (b) Develop and amend as needed operational standards for city

38 and county jail booking systems, which at a minimum shall include

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_1 the type of information collected and transmitted, and the

_2 technical requirements needed for the city and county jail booking

_3 system to communicate with the statewide jail booking and

_4 reporting system;

_5 (c) Develop and amend as needed standards for allocating grants

_6 to city and county jails or law enforcement agencies that will be

_7 implementing or reconfiguring electronic jail booking systems.

_8 (5) By January 1, 2001, the standards committee shall complete

_9 the initial standards described in subsection (4) of this section,

10 and the standards shall be placed into a report and provided to

11 all Washington state city and county jails, all other criminal

12 justice agencies as defined in RCW 10.97.030, the chair of the

13 Washington state senate human services and corrections committee,

14 and the chair of the Washington state house of representatives

15 criminal justice and corrections committee.

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