Louisiana § 15:576 Definitions

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§ 15:576 — Definitions

Louisiana § 15:576

Title 15Criminal Procedure

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La. Stat. Ann. § 15:576 (2026).

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§576. Definitions As used in this Chapter:

(1)The term "bureau" means the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information.

(2)The terms "criminal history record" or "criminal history record information" mean information collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, indictments, bills of information, or any formal criminal charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, including sentencing, correctional supervision, and release. The terms do not include intelligence or investigatory purposes, nor do they include any identification information which does not indicate involvement of the individual in the criminal justice system.

(3)The term "criminal justice agency" means any government agenc

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§576. Definitions
As used in this Chapter:
(1) The term "bureau" means the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and
Information.
(2) The terms "criminal history record" or "criminal history record information"
mean information collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals consisting of
identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, indictments, bills of
information, or any formal criminal charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, including
sentencing, correctional supervision, and release. The terms do not include intelligence or
investigatory purposes, nor do they include any identification information which does not
indicate involvement of the individual in the criminal justice system.
(3) The term "criminal justice agency" means any government agency or subunit
thereof, or private agency which, through statutory authorization or a legal formal agreement
with a governmental unit or agency has the power of investigation, arrest, detention,
prosecution, adjudication, treatment, supervision, rehabilitation, or release of persons
suspected, charged, or convicted of a crime; or which collects, stores, processes, transmits,
or disseminates criminal history record or crime information. "Criminal justice agency" also
includes the governor's office of human trafficking prevention.
(4) The term "criminal justice information system" means all agencies, procedures,
mechanisms, media, and forms as well as the information itself which are or become
involved in the origination, collection, transmittal, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of
information related to offenses or offenders in Louisiana.
(5) The term "criminal justice system" means that body of agencies at the federal,
state, or local level, which may legally arrest, detain, prosecute, adjudicate, treat, supervise,
rehabilitate or release, or collect, store, process, transmit, or disseminate criminal history
record or crime information.
(6) The term "FBI rap back system" means a service maintained by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation to provide authorized noncriminal and criminal justice agencies
ongoing status notifications of any criminal history subsequently reported to the FBI in its
criminal history system after the initial criminal or civil transaction.

Legislative History

Acts 1981, No. 449, §1, eff. July 1, 1981; Acts 2017, No. 362, §3; Acts 2020, No. 154, §1, eff. June 9, 2020; Acts 2023, No. 386, §1; Acts 2025, No. 364, §2.