Missouri § 43.505 - Uniform crime reporting system established — duties of department — violations, penalty.

§ 43.505. Uniform crime reporting system established — duties of department — violations, penalty.

1.  The department of public safety is hereby designated as the central repository for the collection, maintenance, analysis and reporting of crime incident activity generated by law enforcement agencies in this state.  The department shall develop and operate a uniform crime reporting system that is compatible with the national uniform crime reporting system operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

2.  The department of public safety shall:

(1)  Develop, operate and maintain an information system for the collection, storage, maintenance, analysis and retrieval of crime incident and arrest reports from Missouri law enforcement agencies;

(2)  Compile the statistical data and forward such data as required to the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the appropriate Department of Justice agency in accordance with the standards and procedures of the national system;

(3)  Provide the forms, formats, procedures, standards and related training or training assistance to all law enforcement agencies in the state as necessary for such agencies to report incident and arrest activity for timely inclusion into the statewide system;

(4)  Annually publish a report on the nature and extent of crime and submit such report to the governor and the general assembly.  Such report and other statistical reports shall be made available to state and local law enforcement agencies and the general public through an electronic or manual medium;

(5)  Beginning January 1, 2026, publish quarterly clearance rates, as defined in section 650.040, on the department's website by the fifteenth calendar day on the month following the close of the preceding quarter;

(6)  Beginning January 1, 2027, report the data collected pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision (1) of subsection 3 of this section to the governor, Missouri Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission, the chair of the committee on the judiciary and civil and criminal jurisprudence of the senate, the chair of the committee on crime prevention and public safety of the house of representatives, and the chair of the committee on the judiciary of the house of representatives by July 1, 2027, and by July first of each year thereafter.  The department shall also make the report available to the public on the department's website;

(7)  Maintain the privacy and security of information in accordance with applicable state and federal laws, regulations and orders; and

(8)  Establish such rules and regulations as are necessary for implementing the provisions of this section.  Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028.  This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2000, shall be invalid and void.

3.  (1)  Every law enforcement agency in the state shall:

(a)  Submit crime incident reports to the department of public safety on forms or in the format prescribed by the department; and

(b)  Submit any other crime incident information which may be required by the department of public safety, including information pertaining to the citizen or immigration status of any person arrested for an offense that is reportable under section 43.506.

(2)  Beginning January 1, 2026, every law enforcement agency in the state shall collect data documenting case clearances, including information on clearance rates, as defined in section 650.040, for nonfatal shootings, as determined by the department of public safety, and report such data to the department on a monthly basis.

(3)  All clearance rate data collected and reported pursuant to this section shall be disaggregated by whether the offense was cleared by arrest or the offense was cleared by exceptional means, as defined in section 650.040, document the year of the offense, the demographic information of the victim, and detail the average duration per office from the date of the offense to the date of clearance.

4.  Any law enforcement agency that violates this section after December 31, 2021, may be ineligible to receive state or federal funds which would otherwise be paid to such agency for law enforcement, safety or criminal justice purposes.

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(L. 2000 H.B. 1677, et al., A.L. 2018 H.B. 1355, A.L. 2025 H.B. 225 merged with H.B. 495)

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