Section 13100 Of Article 1. Legislative Findings And Definitions From California Penal Code >> Title 3. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
13100
. The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
(a) That the criminal justice agencies in this state require, for
the performance of their official duties, accurate and reasonably
complete criminal offender record information.
(b) That the Legislature and other governmental policymaking or
policy-researching bodies, and criminal justice agency management
units require greatly improved aggregate information for the
performance of their duties.
(c) That policing agencies and courts require speedy access to
information concerning all felony and selected misdemeanor arrests
and final dispositions of such cases.
(d) That criminal justice agencies may require regular access to
detailed criminal histories relating to any felony arrest that is
followed by the filing of a complaint.
(e) That, in order to achieve the above improvements, the
recording, reporting, storage, analysis, and dissemination of
criminal offender record information in this state must be made more
uniform and efficient, and better controlled and coordinated.