A comprehensive review of the status of criminal history records maintained by States criminal history repositories. All 50 states participated in this survey. Charts & tables.

This report is based upon the results from a survey conducted of the administrators of the State criminal history record repositories in March¿June 2009. Fifty-six jurisdictions were surveyed. Responses were received from 53 jurisdictions. It presents a snapshot as of Dec. 31, 2008. In addition, the FBI was the source for some of the information relating to criminal history records, including State participation in the Interstate Identification Index (III) system (the national criminal records exchange system) and the number of III records maintained by the FBI on behalf of the States; the number of records in the protection order file; and the number of sex offender records in the FBI National Crime Information Center files. Charts and tables.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-665) and indexes.