Indiana Administrative Code
Title 240 - STATE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Article 5 - COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Rule 1 - Indiana Data and Communications System-Policy
Section 1-1 - General policy; restrictions on use
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 10-11-2-10; IC 10-13-2-9; IC 10-13-2-10
Affected: IC 10-13-2-3; IC 10-13-2-4
Sec. 1.
(a) A committee appointed by the superintendent of the Indiana state police, for the purpose of managing and controlling the Indiana data and communications system, hereinafter called "IDACS", has the responsibility for the management of the statewide system network as imposed by this article and as directed by the superintendent of state police. The committee chairman shall be selected by the superintendent. The chairman shall report activities of the committee to the superintendent for review and approval. To assure the proper operation of the system, the standards, procedures, formats, and criteria as set forth herein shall be strictly adhered to. In this respect, as in system security, the IDACS terminal agency shall not only follow the rules set forth, but shall also ensure that agencies they are servicing do the same.
(b) Accuracy is essential as is promptness in entering, modifying, locating, or clearing records in the system. Each record on file is identified with the agency originating that record, and that agency alone is responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and correct status of that record at all times. IDACS cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of any records entered by any agency.
(c) The IDACS provides information for decision making, by investigators and patrolmen. The information furnished through IDACS shall be evaluated with other facts known to the officer and investigators at the scene. IDACS is an information tool. It is no substitute for professional police judgment.
(d) When an agency receives a positive response (wanted notice) from IDACS or NCIC, an immediate follow-up confirmation request with the agency that originated the record in the system is necessary before any enforcement action is taken. Likewise, the originating agency has an obligation to supply a substantive response within ten (10) minutes to the inquiring agency. This response shall include a confirmation or denial of the wanted notice or the length of time it will take to respond.
(e) IDACS is primarily a system for law enforcement/criminal justice users, and as such only data related to law enforcement/criminal justice shall be transacted by the system. Information furnished through the system shall be restricted to the use of authorized law enforcement/criminal justice agencies, or those authorized noncriminal justice agencies performing criminal justice responsibilities, and shall not be sold, transmitted, or disseminated to any noncriminal justice agency or person unless authorized by the state police superintendent. Such authorization for dissemination can occur when it has been determined that to do so would be in the best interest of the law enforcement/criminal justice community.
