2007 Minnesota Statutes

299C.06 DIVISION POWERS AND DUTIES; COOPERATION.
It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, chiefs of police, prison wardens, superintendents of
insane hospitals, reformatories, and correctional schools, probation and parole officers, school
attendance officers, coroners, county attorneys, court clerks, the commissioner of public
safety, the commissioner of transportation, and the state fire marshal to furnish to the division
statistics and information regarding the number of crimes reported and discovered; arrests
made; complaints, informations, and indictments filed, and the disposition made of same; pleas,
convictions, acquittals, probations granted or denied; conditional release information; receipts,
transfers, and discharges to and from prisons, reformatories, correctional schools, and other
institutions; paroles granted and revoked; commutation of sentences and pardons granted and
rescinded; and all other data useful in determining the cause and amount of crime in this state
and to form a basis for the study of crime, police methods, court procedure, and penal problems.
Such statistics and information shall be furnished upon the request of the division and upon
such forms as may be prescribed and furnished by it. Unless otherwise required or permitted by
the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, an agency or person furnishing
information under this section must utilize a nationally recognized system or standard approved
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for reporting statistics and information. The division shall
have the power to inspect and prescribe the form and substance of the records kept by those
officials from which the information is so furnished.
History: (9950-7) 1927 c 224 s 3; 1935 c 197 s 2; 1939 c 441 s 41; 1976 c 5 s 11; 1976 c
166 s 7; 1998 c 367 art 7 s 4; 1Sp2003 c 2 art 4 s 6; 2005 c 10 art 2 s 4