PUBLIC LAW 105-251—OCT. 9, 1998 112 STAT. 1871 TITLE I—CRIME IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY ACT OF 1998 SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the "Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998". SEC. 102. STATE GRANT PROGRAM FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE IDENTI- FICATION, INFORMATION, AND COMMUNICATION. (a) IN GENERAL.— Subject to the availability of amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the OfRce of Justice Programs relying principally on the expertise of the Bureau of Justice Statistics shall make a grant to each State, in a manner consistent with the national criminal history improvement program, which shall be used by the State, in conjunction with units of local government, State and local courts, other States, or combinations thereof, to establish or upgrade an integrated approach to develop information and identification technologies and systems to— (1) upgrade criminal history and criminal justice record systems, including systems operated by law enforcement agencies and courts; (2) improve criminal justice identification; (3) promote compatibility and integration of national, State, and local systems for— (A) criminal justice purposes; (B) firearms eligibility determinations; (C) identification of sexual offenders; (D) identification of domestic violence offenders; and (E) background checks for other authorized purposes unrelated to criminal justice; and (4) capture information for statistical and research purposes to improve the administration of criminal justice. (b) USE OF GRANT AMOUNTS. —Grants under this section may be used for programs to establish, develop, update, or upgrade— (1) State centralized, automated, adult and juvenile criminal history record information systems, including arrest and disposition reporting; (2) automated fingerprint identification systems that are compatible with standards established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and interoperable with the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (lAFIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; ^ (3) finger imaging, live scan, and other automated systems to digitize fingerprints and to communicate prints in a manner that is compatible with standards established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and interoperable with systems operated by States and by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; (4) programs and systems to facilitate full participation in the Interstate Identification Index of the National Crime Information Center; (5) systems to facilitate full participation in any compact relating to the Interstate Identification Index of the National Crime Information Center; (6) systems to facilitate full participation in the national instant criminal background check system established under Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998. Records. 42 USC 14601 note. 42 USC 14601.
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