(a)The division of criminal investigation within the
office of the attorney general is designated as the central
repository for criminal history record information.
(b)For the purpose of maintaining complete and accurate
criminal history record information at the central repository,
all city, county and state law enforcement agencies, district
courts, courts of limited jurisdiction, district attorneys, the
department of corrections, state juvenile correctional
institutions and local probation and parole agencies shall
submit the criminal history record information required under
this section for which they are responsible to the division for
filing at the earliest time possible following the occurrence of
the reportable event. Except as provided in subsection (k) of
this section, reports
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(a) The division of criminal investigation within the
office of the attorney general is designated as the central
repository for criminal history record information.
(b) For the purpose of maintaining complete and accurate
criminal history record information at the central repository,
all city, county and state law enforcement agencies, district
courts, courts of limited jurisdiction, district attorneys, the
department of corrections, state juvenile correctional
institutions and local probation and parole agencies shall
submit the criminal history record information required under
this section for which they are responsible to the division for
filing at the earliest time possible following the occurrence of
the reportable event. Except as provided in subsection (k) of
this section, reports shall be submitted on uniform forms
approved and provided by the division.
(c) All criminal justice agencies making arrests for
offenses covered by this act shall furnish the division with
information concerning the charges and description of all
persons arrested and shall furnish their fingerprints. Each
agency shall also notify the division of any decision not to
refer an arrest for prosecution. An agency making arrests
covered by this subsection may enter into arrangements with
other agencies for the purpose of furnishing required
information to the division on its behalf.
(d) All district attorneys shall notify the division of
all final disposition information in cases covered by this act
including charges not filed in criminal cases for which the
division has a record of an arrest.
(e) Except as provided in subsection (k) of this section,
all district attorneys and clerks of the district courts and
courts of limited jurisdiction shall furnish the division with
information concerning final dispositions in criminal cases
covered by this act. The information shall include, for each
charge:
(i) All judgments of not guilty, discharges and
dismissals in the trial courts;
(ii) All court orders filed in the case which reverse
or remand a reported conviction or vacate, modify or annul a
sentence or conviction;
(iii) All judgments terminating or revoking a
sentence to probation, supervision or conditional discharge and
any order relating to resentencing after the termination or
revocation.
(f) After the court pronounces sentence in any case
covered by this act, including an order of probation, parole or
suspended sentence, the sheriff shall fingerprint any convicted
defendant who has not previously been fingerprinted for the same
case or whose fingerprints for the same case were rejected as
unreadable. The sheriff shall submit the fingerprints to the
division.
(g) The director of the department of corrections, the
superintendents of the Wyoming boys' school and Wyoming girls'
school and the sheriff of each county shall furnish the division
with all information concerning the receipt, escape, execution,
death, release, pardon, parole, commutation of sentence,
granting of executive clemency or discharge of any individual
who has been sentenced to the agency's custody for any offense
covered by this act.
(h) The division shall regularly audit its own records and
practices to ensure the completeness and accuracy of criminal
history record information collected, maintained, used or
disseminated by it, and to evaluate its procedures and
facilities relating to the privacy and security of information.
The division shall periodically audit the records and practices
of each criminal justice agency in this state authorized to
access criminal history record information maintained by the
division.
(j) The division may enter into agreements with criminal
records central repositories and criminal justice agencies of
other states or the federal government to establish uniform
procedures and practices, including codes, formats and fee
schedules to facilitate the interstate exchange of criminal
record information.
(k) Upon implementation of a case management system in a
circuit or district court, the supreme court shall, on behalf of
the district or circuit court, furnish electronically to the
division an abstract of the court record within ten (10) days
after entry of a judgment of conviction or forfeiture of bail.
The abstract shall include:
(i) The name and address of the person charged;
(ii) A citation to the statute of each offense
charged;
(iii) The finding or disposition of each offense
charged;
(iv) The amount of fine, forfeiture or penalty
imposed, if any, or any changes to the amount;
(v) Other information as determined and agreed upon
by the office of the attorney general and the supreme court
pursuant to rules promulgated by the attorney general and the
supreme court.
(m) Nothing in subsection (k) of this section shall
preclude a state agency from requesting and obtaining public
court records as provided by court rule.