§ 15:579 — Rules and regulations

§579. Rules and regulations
The bureau shall issue rules and regulations, consistent with United States
Department of Justice requirements, the Constitution of Louisiana, the Code of Criminal
Procedure, the Children's Code, and the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, governing the
maintenance of privacy and security of criminal history records and records of juvenile
criminal conduct; governing access to and use of records maintained by the central
repository; governing restrictions to access and use by authorized agencies or individuals of
any state owned or operated system of communications utilized for transmitting criminal
history record information to or from the bureau; and governing the purging of any
information maintained by the bureau as permitted by law. Records of juvenile criminal
conduct shall not be disseminated as a criminal background check to anyone outside of the
criminal justice system as defined in R.S. 15:576.

Legislative History

Acts 1981, No. 449, §1, eff. July 1, 1981; Acts 2017, No. 362, §3; Acts 2025, No. 364, §2.