BILL REQ. #:  Z-0350.1 

Read first time 01/31/13.   Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to criminal history record information compliance audits; and amending RCW 10.98.100.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 10.98.100 and 2005 c 282 s 24 are each amended to read as follows:
     The section shall administer a compliance audit at least once annually for each prosecuting attorney, district and municipal court, and originating agency to ensure that all disposition reports have been received and added to the criminal ((offender)) history record information described in RCW 43.43.705. The section shall ((prepare listings of all arrests charged and listed in the)) identify criminal ((offender)) history record information for which no disposition report has been received and ((which)) has been outstanding for ((more than nine months)) one year or longer since the date of arrest. Each ((prosecuting attorney, district and municipal court, and originating)) open arrest shall be researched for a final disposition by section staff or the criminal justice agency shall be furnished a list of outstanding disposition reports for criminal history record information of persons who were arrested or against whom charges were filed by that agency. Each criminal justice agency shall provide the section with a current disposition report or status within sixty days of receipt of notification of open arrest. Cases pending prosecution shall be considered outstanding dispositions in the compliance audit. ((Within forty-five days, the prosecuting attorney, district and municipal court, and originating agency shall provide the section with a current disposition report for each outstanding disposition. The section shall assist prosecuting attorneys with the compliance audit by cross-checking outstanding cases with the administrative office of the courts and the department of corrections. The section may provide technical assistance to prosecuting attorneys, district or municipal courts, or originating agencies for their compliance audits.)) The results of compliance audits shall be published annually and distributed to legislative committees dealing with criminal justice issues, the office of financial management, and criminal justice agencies and associations.