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SENATE BILL 5179
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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By Senators Costa, Roach, Constantine, McCaslin, Fairley, Sheahan, Hargrove, Rasmussen, Kline, Gardner, Eide, Haugen, Franklin, Johnson, McAuliffe and Kohl‑Welles
Read first time 01/15/2001. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
_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 the release or transfer of an incarcerated person
14 from a local jail, juvenile detention facility, or release from a
15 partial confinement program operated by a city or county.
16 Sec. 2. RCW 36.28A.040 and 2000 c 3 s 1 are each amended to read
17 as follows:
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_1 (1) No later than December 31, 2001, the Washington association
_2 of sheriffs and police chiefs shall implement and operate an
_3 electronic statewide city and county jail booking and reporting
_4 system. The system shall serve as a central repository and instant
_5 information source for offender information and jail statistical
_6 data. The system shall be placed on the Washington state justice
_7 information network and be capable of communicating electronically
_8 with every Washington state city and county jail and with all
_9 other Washington state criminal justice agencies as defined in RCW
10 10.97.030.
11 (2) After the Washington association of sheriffs and police
12 chiefs has implemented an electronic jail booking system as
13 described in subsection (1) of this section, if a city or county
14 jail or law enforcement agency receives state or federal funding
15 to cover the entire cost of implementing or reconfiguring an
16 electronic jail booking system, the city or county jail or law
17 enforcement agency shall implement or reconfigure an electronic
18 jail booking system that is in compliance with the jail booking
19 system standards developed pursuant to subsection (4) of this
20 section.
21 (3) After the Washington association of sheriffs and police
22 chiefs has implemented an electronic jail booking system as
23 described in subsection (1) of this section, city or county jails,
24 or law enforcement agencies that operate electronic jail booking
25 systems, but choose not to accept state or federal money to
26 implement or reconfigure electronic jail booking systems, shall
27 electronically forward jail booking information to the Washington
28 association of sheriffs and police chiefs. At a minimum the
29 information forwarded shall include the name of the offender,
30 vital statistics, the date the offender was arrested, the offenses
31 arrested for, the date and time an offender is released or
32 transferred from a city or county jail, a city or county juvenile
33 detention facility, or a partial confinement program that is
34 operated by a city or county, and if available, the mug shot. The
35 electronic format in which the information is sent shall be at the
36 discretion of the city or county jail, or law enforcement agency
37 forwarding the information. City and county jails or law
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_1 enforcement agencies that forward jail booking information under
_2 this subsection are not required to comply with the standards
_3 developed under subsection (4)(b) of this section.
_4 (4) The Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs
_5 shall appoint, convene, and manage a statewide jail booking and
_6 reporting system standards committee. The committee shall include
_7 representatives from the Washington association of sheriffs and
_8 police chiefs correction committee, the information service
_9 board's justice information committee, the judicial information
10 system, at least two individuals who serve as jailers in a city or
11 county jail, and other individuals that the Washington association
12 of sheriffs and police chiefs places on the committee. The
13 committee shall have the authority to:
14 (a) Develop and amend as needed standards for the statewide
15 jail booking and reporting system and for the information that
16 must be contained within the system. At a minimum, the system shall
17 contain:
18 (i) The offenses the individual has been charged with;
19 (ii) Descriptive and personal information about each offender
20 booked into a city or county jail. At a minimum, this information
21 shall contain the offender's name, vital statistics, address, and
22 mugshot;
23 (iii) Information about the offender while in jail, which could
24 be used to protect criminal justice officials that have future
25 contact with the offender, such as medical conditions, acts of
26 violence, and other behavior problems;
27 (iv) Statistical data indicating the current capacity of each
28 jail and the quantity and category of offenses charged;
((and))
29 (v) The ability to communicate directly and immediately with
30 the city and county jails and other criminal justice entities; and
31 (vi) The date and time that an offender was released or
32 transferred from a local jail, juvenile detention facility, or
33 released from a partial confinement program operated by a city or
34 county;
35 (b) Develop and amend as needed operational standards for city
36 and county jail booking systems, which at a minimum shall include
37 the type of information collected and transmitted, and the
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_1 technical requirements needed for the city and county jail booking
_2 system to communicate with the statewide jail booking and
_3 reporting system;
_4 (c) Develop and amend as needed standards for allocating grants
_5 to city and county jails or law enforcement agencies that will be
_6 implementing or reconfiguring electronic jail booking systems.
_7 (5) By January 1, 2001, the standards committee shall complete
_8 the initial standards described in subsection (4) of this section,
_9 and the standards shall be placed into a report and provided to
10 all Washington state city and county jails, all other criminal
11 justice agencies as defined in RCW 10.97.030, the chair of the
12 Washington state senate human services and corrections committee,
13 and the chair of the Washington state house of representatives
14 criminal justice and corrections committee.
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