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Issues in Criminal Justice Technology & Security
Bureau of Justice
Statistics
Uses of criminal
justice data bases
- Background
checks for firearm transfers
Federal law prohibits
firearm possession by or transfer to prohibited persons including
those who are under indictment for or convicted of a crime punishable
by imprisonment for more than 1 year.
- More than 3,000 State and local
agencies conduct background checks related to firearm transfers.
- From the inception of the Brady
Act on February 29, 1994, to December 31, 2003, more than 53
million applications for firearm transfers were subject to background
checks. 1,102,000 applications were rejected -- 42% of them
for felony convictions or indictments (my emphasis)
- about half of checks are done
by state and local agencies, half by FBI.
Gun
advocates say uniform driver's license standards could lead to
restrictions on gun ownership.
- Sex
offender registries (SOR)
As of September 2004--
- All 50 States and the District
of Columbia had centralized sex offender registries and were
submitting records on sexual offenders to the National Sex Offender
Registry.
- As of February 2001, 43 States
had or planned to have an Internet site devoted to some aspect
of SOR:
- 29 States and the District of
Columbia had publicly accessible Internet sites containing information
on individual sex offenders in a searchable format.
- 8 States had Internet sites
accessible only to law enforcement agencies or contained information
that pertained only to the registry and not to individual offenders.
- 6 States without a SOR Internet
site were planning to develop one.
- The remaining 7 indicated that
they did not currently have an Internet site with SOR information
and provided no information as to whether one was planned.
- Mass.
Sex Offender Registry Board
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