H.F. 568 Section 1. Section 692.1, subsection 7, Code 2023, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 7. “Criminal or juvenile justice agency” means an agency 3 or department of any level of government or an entity wholly 4 owned, financed, or controlled by one or more such agencies 5 or departments , or a federally recognized Indian tribe which 6 has entered into a written agreement with the department 7 irrevocably waiving any tribal sovereign immunity related to 8 the dissemination or use of criminal history data obtained 9 because of that written agreement, which performs as its 10 principal function the apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, 11 incarceration, or rehabilitation of criminal or juvenile 12 offenders. 13 EXPLANATION 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 15 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 16 This bill relates to criminal history and intelligence data. 17 The bill provides that a “criminal or juvenile justice 18 agency” includes a federally recognized Indian tribe which 19 has entered into a written agreement with the department of 20 public safety irrevocably waiving any tribal sovereign immunity 21 related to the dissemination or use of criminal history data 22 obtained because of that written agreement, which performs 23 as its principal function the apprehension, prosecution, 24 adjudication, incarceration, or rehabilitation of criminal 25 or juvenile offenders. Under current law, the department of 26 public safety may provide copies or communicate information 27 from criminal history data to a criminal or juvenile justice 28 agency. Criminal history data includes data concerning 29 arrests, convictions, dispositions, corrections, adjudications, 30 and custody. 31 -1- LSB 2254HV (2) 90 as/rh 1/ 1