Lakewood Police Department
Policy and Procedure
Computerized Criminal History Records 		Effective Date: 10/15/2010
Policy Number: PP-7251
  1. Policy

    This department shall maintain computerized criminal history records, which shall be created and maintained by the criminal history unit of the Criminalistics Section. 
  2. Procedure
    1. DEFINITION:  A criminal history record is the information collected by this department on individual(s), consisting of finger and palm prints, identifiable physical descriptors, photographs, notations of arrest, detention, indictment or other formal criminal charge(s), or the registration of such individual(s) as a result of sentencing, correctional supervision, court order, licensing or employment application or other legal requirement to be fingerprinted and photographed. A criminal history record is created or amended only upon positive identification of the subject of the criminal history record. 
  3. Rule
    1. Information obtained from criminal history records shall be accessed for official use only, as authorized by State or Federal law, and not for personal use. 
    2. Except for personnel of this Department, all requests to obtain copies of criminal history records will require the request to be documented upon a Records Release form. 
    3. The original Records Request form used to obtain a copy of a criminal history record shall be filed in the miscellaneous filing cabinet, in alphabetical order.  These requests shall be maintained for 1 year and then destroyed per the Police Department's Records Retention Schedule.