ANTONOVICH TO PRESS FOR CRIME DATA ACCESS.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Mistry is a surname, and may refer to:
This page or section lists people with the surname Mistry. Daily News Staff Writer Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County agencies could have access to federal crime records if Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San gets his way. The supervisor is asking for state legislation giving county agencies access to the National Crime Database - primarily to check potential foster parents for criminal records - and will ask other board members to support him. ``Right now you can't get access to federal files,'' said Cam Currier, a spokesman for Antonovich. ``The police and sheriffs do, but not other agencies.'' Under federal law, local agencies may have access to the national database but a state statute must be in place before access can be granted. Antonovich's motion is expected to be considered by the board at its Tuesday meeting. As part of his argument, Antonovich cited a case of three foster children allowed to live with their grandfather, who had two prior arrests for sex crimes. Local criminal records failed to reveal the arrests. ``However, a manual database revealed that a county social worker failed to follow Department of Children and Family Services policy in reporting the criminal history,'' Antonovich said. ``Access to the NCIC NCIC National Crime Information Center NCIC National Cancer Institute of Canada NCIC North Carolina Industrial Commission NCIC National Cartographic Information Center NCIC National Cancer Information Center (American Cancer Society) database would have prevented this error.'' Antonovich said it is essential for the protection of foster children that all local law enforcement agencies in California This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of California. State agencies
Once such a law is enacted, he said, the Department of Children and Family Services would be able to submit fingerprinting fingerprinting Act of taking an impression of a person's fingerprint. Because each person's fingerprints are unique, fingerprinting is used as a method of identification, especially in police investigations. to the FBI for criminal checking. |
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