| (a) A fusion center shall achieve and maintain the
baseline fusion center capabilities and follow the baseline standards
in this section to protect privacy, civil rights, civil liberties
and promote consistency and interoperability between the fusion centers
in the state.
(b) A fusion center must have oversight and management
by a state or local government criminal justice agency as defined
by 28 CFR §20.3(g).
(c) A fusion center shall receive and maintain certification
from the United States Department of Homeland Security that the fusion
center has privacy, civil rights and civil liberties protections in
place that are determined to be at least as comprehensive as the Information
Sharing Environment Privacy Guidelines published by the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence.
(d) A fusion center shall maintain an all-crimes approach
to recognize there is a nexus between certain types of criminal activity.
A fusion center shall develop routine threat and risk assessments
to assist in prioritizing specific crimes or hazards a region or the
state should address and to identify other sources of information
that may be useful to examine possible connections with other crimes.
(e) A fusion center shall process, document, analyze
and share all vetted suspicious activity reported to or identified
by fusion center personnel with the Texas Suspicious Activity Reporting
Network. A fusion center must begin the suspicious activity report
vetting process within the Texas Suspicious Activity Reporting Network
within twenty-four hours of receiving a report or identifying the
suspicious activity.
(f) A fusion center shall respond to a request from
the Texas Fusion Center for information relevant to a statewide or
regional threat assessment.
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