35-6A-2. Creation; assignment to Georgia Bureau of Investigation; definitions.

Ga. L. 1981, p. 1306, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 311, § 2; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 1-5/SB 407; Ga. L. 2022, p. 121, § 15/SB 441.

Ga. L. 2022, p. 121, § 1/SB 441, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “(a) The General Assembly finds that: “(1) The state’s current system for sharing criminal case data is not adequate to provide to all appropriately interested parties, including, but not limited to, law enforcement agencies and officers, courts, crime victims and other impacted individuals, housing providers, and employers, complete criminal case data; “(2) One recent report indicates there may be as many as 7 million criminal charges without a final disposition indicated, and, of those, as many as 5.4 million criminal charges have languished for years; “(3) Georgia’s citizens and businesses are harmed by incomplete criminal case data. For example, in thousands of cases, as a result of incomplete criminal case data, citizens’ employability and housing opportunities have been negatively impacted; and “(4) A more uniform, modern system and framework for handling criminal case data will support the state in meeting its obligations to victims to keep them informed as their perpetrators make their way through the criminal justice system. “(b) It is the intent of the General Assembly that criminal case data be complete and accurately reported to the appropriate state data base and be accessible to state and local criminal justice agencies, employers, housing providers, victims, and all citizens.” Ga. L. 2022, p. 121, § 2/SB 441, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Criminal Records Responsibility Act.’”

For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 45 (2018). For article, “SB 441: Criminal Records Responsibility Act,” see 39 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 105 (2022).