§41-9-590. Definitions.

When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(1) CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES. Such term shall include those public agencies at all levels of government which perform as their principal function activities or planning for such activities relating to the identification, apprehension, prosecution, adjudication or rehabilitation of civil, traffic and criminal offenders.

(2) OFFENSE. Any act which is a felony or is a misdemeanor as described in Section 41-9-622.

(3) CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEM and SYSTEM. Such terms shall include that portion of those public agencies, procedures, mechanisms, media and Criminal Justice Information Center forms as well as the information itself involved in the origination, transmittal, storage, retrieval, analysis and dissemination of information related to reported offenses, offenders and actions related to such events or persons required to be reported to and received by, as well as stored, analyzed and disseminated by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Commission through the center.

(4) COMMISSION. The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Commission.

(5) ACJICC. The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Commission.

(6) ACJIC. The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center.

(7) CENTER. The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center.

(8) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center.

(Acts 1975, No. 872, §1.)