House Bill 432 Summary

• Establishes the Criminal Justice Integrated Data System within the office of the state controller to receive, store, and maintain criminal justice data from local governments, state agencies, and volunteer nongovernmental entities for research and analysis purposes.

• Creates a Data Oversight Council comprised of 11 members including the governor, chief justice, attorney general, state controller, and directors of correction, juvenile corrections, health and welfare, state police, and other agencies; council must approve all data projects, reports, and analyses by majority vote.

• Requires memoranda of understanding between the state controller and contributing entities that identify data confidentiality and use restrictions; volunteer nongovernmental entities cannot gain priority in data system use or compel production of analyses on their behalf, and may withdraw data at any time.

• Makes records and data collected by the Criminal Justice Integrated Data System exempt from public disclosure under Idaho Code 74-105(19), with exemption not applying to approved reports and analyses released by the data oversight council.

• Grants immunity from liability to the state controller, council members, and contributing entities for any invasion of privacy or use of records generated by the system.