112 STAT. 1876 PUBLIC LAW 105-251—OCT. 9, 1998 other actions as may be necessary to carry out the Compact and this subtitle. 42 USC 14616. SEC. 217. NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION AND PRIVACY COMPACT. The Contracting Parties agree to the following: OVERVIEW (a) IN GENERAL. —This Compact organizes an electronic information sharing system among the Federal Government and the States to exchange criminal history records for noncriminal justice purposes authorized by Federal or State law, such as background checks for governmental licensing and employment. (b) OBLIGATIONS OF PARTIES.— Under this Compact, the FBI and the Party States agree to maintain detailed databases of their respective criminal history records, including arrests and dispositions, and to make them available to the Federal Government and to Party States for authorized purposes. The FBI shall also manage the Federal data facilities that provide a significant part of the infrastructure for the system. ARTICLE I—DEFINITIONS In this Compact: (1) ATTORNEY GENERAL. —The term "Attorney General" means the Attorney General of the United States. (2) COMPACT OFFICER. —The term "Compact officer" means— (A) with respect to the Federal Government, an official so designated by the Director of the FBI; and (B) with respect to a Party State, the chief administrator of the State's criminal history record repository or a designee of the chief administrator who is a regular full-time employee of the repository. (3) COUNCIL. —The term "Council" means the Compact Council established under Article VI. (4) CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS.— The term "criminal history records"— (A) means information collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, indictments, or other formal criminal charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, including acquittal, sentencing, correctional supervision, or release; and (B) does not include identification information such as fingerprint records if such information does not indicate involvement of the individual with the criminal justice system. (5) CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD REPOSITORY.—The term "criminal history record repository" means the State agency designated by the Governor or other appropriate executive official or the legislature of a State to perform centralized recordkeeping functions for criminal history records and services in the State. (6) CRIMINAL JUSTICE. —The term "criminal justice" includes activities relating to the detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation of accused persons
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