Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 66.401

This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 66.401, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.

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§ 66.401. GRANTS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAMS.

Official statutory text

The council, the Department of Public Safety, the criminal justice division of the governor's office, and the Department of Information Resources cooperatively shall develop and adopt a grant program, to be implemented by the criminal justice division at a time and in a manner determined by the division, to aid local law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and court personnel in obtaining equipment and training necessary to operate a telecommunications network capable of:

(1) making inquiries to and receiving responses from the statewide automated fingerprint identification system and from the computerized criminal history system; and

(2) transmitting information to those systems.

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