| (a) Juvenile offender processing data as described by these sections and Texas Family Code, Title 3, Chapter 58, §§58.101-58.113 must be reported by the agency responsible for the data from the time a juvenile offender is initially taken into custody, detained, or referred until the time a juvenile offender is released from the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system. (b) The law enforcement agency or the juvenile intake agency that initiates the entry of the juvenile offender into the juvenile justice information system for a specific incident shall prepare a uniform incident fingerprint card, or an electronic submission of the same data, and initiate the reporting process for each incident reportable to the juvenile justice information system. The initiation of reporting of each juvenile offender referral to the juvenile court must be accompanied by fingerprint data. The local juvenile board shall establish a process for fingerprinting when a juvenile is referred to the juvenile court without having first been taken into custody or detained by a law enforcement agency, and, therefore, the fingerprints have not been supplied by a law enforcement agency. (c) The prosecutor exercising jurisdiction over a juvenile offender's case shall ensure that each disposition by the prosecutor and the date of that disposition is reported to the juvenile justice information system. (d) The clerk of the court exercising jurisdiction over a juvenile offender's case shall promptly report to the department the disposition of the case, including information concerning custody of a juvenile offender by a juvenile justice agency or probation, the date of disposition, a description of any appellate proceeding, and the name and description, as described by codes assigned by the department, of any program to which the juvenile offender is referred. (e) In each county, the reporting agencies may make alternative arrangements for reporting the required information, including combined reporting, or electronic reporting, if the alternative reporting is approved by the local juvenile board and the department. (f) Except as otherwise required by applicable state laws or regulations, information required to be reported to the juvenile justice information system shall be reported promptly. Except as provided below, the information shall be reported not later than the 30th day after the date the information is received by the agency responsible for reporting the information. A juvenile offenders' in-custody referral shall be reported to the department not later than the seventh day after the referral. A referral without previous custody shall be reported to the department not later than the seventh day after the date the child is fingerprinted. (g) All information to be reported to the juvenile justice information system by juvenile reporting agencies may be reported electronically, with the approval of the local juvenile board and the department. |
