The Attorney General shall establish and maintain, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, the Violent Crime Information Network within the center to enable the Department of Justice crime analysts with expertise in child abuse, missing persons, child abductions, and sexual assaults to electronically share their data, analysis, and findings on violent crime cases with each other, and to electronically provide law enforcement agencies with information to assist in the identification, tracking, and apprehension of violent offenders. The Violent Crime Information Network shall integrate existing state, federal, and civilian databases into a single comprehensive network.
(Added by renumbering Section 14201.1 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 11. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)