Bill Number: H.B. 2098
Engel
Floor Amendment
Reference
to: JUDICIARY Committee amendment
Amendment
drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR
AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Requires a law
enforcement agency that receives a report of a missing, kidnapped or runaway
child, instead of immediately making a record entry in specified
databases, to do all of the following:
a)
within
two hours after receiving the report and all necessary and available
information, submit specified information to the Arizona Crime Information
Center, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computer networks and the
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System;
b)
within
30 days of the original entry of the record, verify and update the record with
any additional information;
c)
institute
or assist with appropriate search and investigative procedures;
d)
maintain
a close liaison with state and local child welfare systems and other
organizations; and
e)
grant permission to the NCIC terminal contractor for
Arizona to update the missing child record in the NCIC computer networks with
additional information.
2. Removes
the requirement that a law enforcement agency that does not have access to
specified databases must provide the reported information to the sheriff in the
county where the report is received or the Department of Public Safety.
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11 through 13, insert "do all of the following:
1. Within two hours after receiving the
report and all necessary and available information, submit the following
information to the Arizona crime information center, the national crime
information center computer networks and the national missing and unidentified
persons system:
(a) The name, date of birth, sex, race, height, weight and
eye and hair color of the child.
(b) A recent photograph of the child, if available.
(c) the date and location of the last known contact with the
child.
(d) The category under which the child is reported missing.
2. Not later than thirty days after the
original entry of the record, verify and update the record with any additional
information, including, where available, medical and dental records and a
photograph taken during the previous one hundred eighty days.
3. Institute or assist with appropriate
search and investigative procedures.
4. Maintain a close liaison with state and
local child welfare systems and the national center for missing and exploited
children for the exchange of information and technical assistance in the
missing child case.
5. Grant permission to the national crime
information center terminal contractor for this state to update the missing
child record in the national crime information center computer networks with
additional information that is learned during the investigation and that
relates to the missing child."
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