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Code · Louisiana · Title 15 — Criminal Procedure

RS 15:581

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RS 15:581
§581. Authorized audits and investigations
With the written authorization of the deputy secretary, any employee or agent of the bureau, for purpose of audit or investigation of violations of any provisions herein, or any official rule or regulation of the bureau, shall be granted access by any public or private criminal justice agency collecting, processing, storing, or maintaining any documents, or automated, microfilmed, or manual records containing, or which may reasonably be expected to be used to substantiate and verify, any information or statistics the bureau is empowered to require from such public or private criminal justice agency.
Upon written authorization of the deputy secretary, any employee or agent of the bureau may enter any institution to which persons have been committed, who have been convicted of crime, or declared to be criminally insane or to be delinquents with intellectual disabilities, to take or cause to be taken fingerprints or photographs or to make investigations relative to any person confined therein, for the purpose of obtaining information which will lead to the identification of criminals.
Acts 1981, No. 449, §1, eff. July 1, 1981; Acts 2014, No. 811, §7, eff. June 23, 2014.
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