Section 13010 Of Article 1. Duties Of The Department From California Penal Code >> Title 3. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.
13010
. It shall be the duty of the department:
(a) To collect data necessary for the work of the department from
all persons and agencies mentioned in Section 13020 and from any
other appropriate source.
(b) To prepare and distribute to all those persons and agencies,
cards, forms, or electronic means used in reporting data to the
department. The cards, forms, or electronic means may, in addition to
other items, include items of information needed by federal bureaus
or departments engaged in the development of national and uniform
criminal statistics.
(c) To recommend the form and content of records which must be
kept by those persons and agencies in order to ensure the correct
reporting of data to the department.
(d) To instruct those persons and agencies in the installation,
maintenance, and use of those records and in the reporting of data
therefrom to the department.
(e) To process, tabulate, analyze and interpret the data collected
from those persons and agencies.
(f) To supply, at their request, to federal bureaus or departments
engaged in the collection of national criminal statistics data they
need from this state.
(g) To present to the Governor, on or before July 1st, an annual
report containing the criminal statistics of the preceding calendar
year and to present at other times as the Attorney General may
approve reports on special aspects of criminal statistics. A
sufficient number of copies of all reports shall be prepared to
enable the Attorney General to send a copy to all public officials in
the state dealing with criminals and to distribute them generally in
channels where they will add to the public enlightenment.
(h) To periodically review the requirements of units of government
using criminal justice statistics, and to make recommendations for
changes it deems necessary in the design of criminal justice
statistics systems, including new techniques of collection and
processing made possible by automation.