Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 1395 - TN Bureau of Investigation
Chapter 1395-01-01 - Tennessee Crime Information Center
Section 1395-01-01-.03 - DEFINITIONS

(1) Administration of Criminal Justice - The performance of any of the following activities: detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision or rehabilitation of accused person or criminal offenders; criminal identification activities; and the collection, storage, and dissemination of criminal history records and crime data information.

(2) AFIS - Automated Fingerprint Identification System that contains the complete Bureau fingerprint files, which provide the certainty of positive identification of every criminal history, and the associated hardware/software required to manage this data.

(3) Bureau - Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI).

(4) CFR - Code of Federal Regulations

(5) CHRI - Criminal History Record Information in computerized form.

(6) CHR - Criminal History Record of a person who has been arrested and charged with having committed a criminal offense.

(7) Criminal Justice Agency - Means (a) courts; or (b) a governmental agency or any subunit thereof which performs the administration of criminal justice pursuant to a statute or executive order, and which allocate a substantial part of its annual budget to the administration of criminal justice (more than 50%) or performs a legally authorized function which results in arrest of accused persons and/or institution of criminal charges. State and Federal Inspector General offices are included.

(8) Criminal Justice Information - Information received, generated, collected, modified, or artificially created by criminal justice agencies that is needed for the performance of their legally authorized functions. This includes, but is not limited to, information on: wanted persons, stolen property, criminal histories, commencement and termination of prosecution, identification of criminal acts and conduct; and information compiled in the course of the investigation of crimes that are known or believed on "justifiable suspicion" or reasonable grounds to have occurred, or to be in the planning or conspiratorial process, including information on identifiable individuals compiled in an effort to anticipate, prevent, or monitor criminal activity, and information artificially created from the analysis and combination of other data.

(9) CJIS - Criminal Justice Information Services, maintained by the FBI.

(10) CTA - Control Terminal Agency maintained by the TBI and approved by the FBI/NCIC for the State of Tennessee for control of the TIES network.

(11) Director - The Director of the TBI.

(12) Full Access - A TIES agency which makes entries into NCIC and TCIC files.

(13) LAN - Local Area Network.

(14) Law Enforcement Agency - A governmental agency having statutory power of arrest whose primary function is that of detection, apprehension, and institution of prosecutions and which allocates more than fifty percent (50%) of its budget to the administration of criminal justice. Includes all police and sheriffs departments and offices.

(15) NCIC - National Crime Information Center, operated by the FBI.

(16) NIBRS - National Incident Based Reporting System.

(17) NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology.

(18) NLETS - National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System is a nonprofit incorporated organization made up of representatives of law enforcement agencies from each of the fifty (50) states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and several federal law enforcement agencies.

(19) Non-Terminal Agency - An agency accessing the TIES by means of a Terminal Agency.

(20) POST - Police Officer Standards and Training.

(21) Query-Only Access - A TIES agency that is programmatically prohibited from making entries into the NCIC and TCIC files.

(22) Satellite - A Terminal Agency accessing the TIES through another agency's computer.

(23) SID - State Identification Number, a unique identification number assigned by the TBI to each person for whom a criminal history is established pursuant to a fingerprint identification, or a number assigned to any other person for whom a file is required to be maintained by TBI pursuant to law but is not based upon a fingerprint identification.

(24) TCIC - Tennessee Crime Information Center, operated by the TBI and required by Chapter 10 of Title 38 of the Tennessee Code Annotated.

(25) Terminal Agency - An agency accessing the TIES by means of a computer system or terminal.

(26) TIBRS - Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System.

(27) TICIC - Tennessee Internet Crime Information Center.

(28) TIES - Tennessee Information Enforcement System is a hardware/software system dedicated to linking law enforcement agencies with one another and/or with databases and transmitting law enforcement information.

(29) TRAP - Tennessee Repository for the Apprehension of Persons is an automated tracking mechanism to assist in the apprehension and subsequent prosecution of fugitives from justice.

(30) UCR - Uniform Crime Reporting, operated by the FBI.

(31) WAN - Wide Area Network.