2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 74. State Government
§74-20l. Collection of information by the Office of Attorney General.

A. The Office of the Attorney General shall have the authority to collect information sufficient to meet its responsibilities related to the auditing of justice reinvestment initiatives in this state.

B. The individual forms, computer and electronic data, and other forms of information collected by and furnished to the Attorney General shall be confidential and shall not be public records as defined in the Oklahoma Open Records Act.

C. Except as otherwise provided by state and federal confidentiality laws, identifying information shall not be disclosed and shall not be used for any public purpose other than the creation and maintenance of anonymous data sets for statistical reporting and data analysis.

D. The following entities shall report and submit the required information to the Attorney General on or before November 1, 2016:

1. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall provide crime rates for violent, property and drug-related crimes;

2. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall provide information related to the location and number of mental health beds, funds expended on services for criminal offenders, the total number of mental health assessments completed by the Department, as well as the average score, costs and verification of mental health assessment tools;

3. The District Attorneys Council shall provide information related to the costs of providing training for victim-witness coordinators and support staff who provide services to crime victims and witnesses within each district and the number of assistant district attorneys and support staff employed within each office;

4. The Administrative Director of the Courts shall provide the total number of criminal sentence modifications; and

5. The Department of Corrections shall provide information related to incarceration rates including, but not limited to, the type of criminal offense, average period of incarceration, total number of correctional facilities and the total number of corrections officers, corrections employees and probation and parole employees. The Department of Corrections shall also provide the total number of offenders who are on probation, parole or post-imprisonment supervision and shall also provide information related to the use of sanctions, including technical violations, referrals to intermediate sanctions facilities, intermediate revocation facilities and revocations.

E. The Attorney General shall include in the report the number of grants awarded pursuant to the Justice Reinvestment Grant Program established pursuant to the provisions of Section 11 of this act and the name of the law enforcement agency which received said grant.

F. A detailed report of the data analysis shall be provided by the Attorney General to the Governor, the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate by January 1, 2017.

Added by Laws 2012, c. 228, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.