§ 601.7. Dissemination of information.
(a) Intelligence information. A criminal justice agency may disseminate intelligence information only if the following conditions are met:
(1) An authorized intelligence officer determines that the information to be disseminated is reliable.
(2) The information is requested in connection with the duties of the criminal justice agency requesting the information, and the request for information is based upon a name, fingerprints, modus operandi, genetic typing, voice print or other identifying characteristic.
(3) The criminal justice agency requesting the information certifies to the disseminating agency that it has adopted policies and procedures consistent with this chapter and the act.
(b) Corrections to information. If an intelligence officer of a disseminating agency is notified that intelligence information which has been previously disseminated to another criminal justice agency is materially misleading, obsolete or otherwise unreliable, the information shall be corrected and the recipient agency notified of the change within a reasonable period of time.
(c) Investigative or treatment information. A criminal justice agency may disseminate investigative or treatment information only to a criminal justice agency which requests the information in connection with its duties, and the request is based upon a name, fingerprints, modus operandi, genetic typing, voice print or other identifying characteristics.
(d) Notations on the record. Criminal justice agencies maintaining intelligence information, investigative information or treatment information shall enter, as a permanent part of an individual’s information file, a listing of the persons and agencies to whom they have disseminated that particular information, the date of the dissemination, and the purpose for which the information was disseminated. This listing shall be maintained separate from the record itself.
(e) Secondary dissemination prohibited. A criminal justice agency which possesses protected information, but which is itself not the source of the information, may not disseminate or disclose the information to another criminal justice agency but shall refer the requesting agency to the agency which was the source of the information. This prohibition does not apply if the agency receiving the information is investigating or prosecuting a criminal incident in conjunction with the agency possessing the information. Agencies receiving protected information assume the same level of responsibility for the security of the information as the agency which was the source of the information.
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