SF 2625

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to government data practices; modifying the 
  1.3             availability of certain juvenile records for certain 
  1.4             background checks; amending Minnesota Statutes 1999 
  1.5             Supplement, section 299C.095, subdivision 1. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 
  1.8   299C.095, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [ACCESS.] (a) The bureau shall administer 
  1.10  and maintain the computerized juvenile history record system 
  1.11  based on sections 260B.171 and 260C.171 and other statutes 
  1.12  requiring the reporting of data on juveniles.  The data in the 
  1.13  system are private data as defined in section 13.02, subdivision 
  1.14  12, but are accessible to criminal justice agencies as defined 
  1.15  in section 13.02, subdivision 3a, to all trial courts and 
  1.16  appellate courts, to a person who has access to the juvenile 
  1.17  court records as provided in sections 260B.171 and 260C.171 or 
  1.18  under court rule and to criminal justice agencies in other 
  1.19  states in the conduct of their official duties. 
  1.20     (b) Except for access authorized under paragraph (a), the 
  1.21  bureau shall only disseminate a juvenile adjudication history 
  1.22  record in connection with a background check: 
  1.23     (1) required by statute or rule or authorized by sections 
  1.24  299C.60 to 299C.64 and performed on a licensee, license 
  1.25  applicant, or employment applicant; or 
  2.1      (2) performed under section 624.713.  A consent for release 
  2.2   of information from an individual who is the subject of a 
  2.3   juvenile adjudication history is not effective and the bureau 
  2.4   shall not release a juvenile adjudication history record and 
  2.5   shall not release information in a manner that reveals the 
  2.6   existence of the record.