Title 12, Title 12 Procedure

(a)(1) Any fingerprint, photograph, physical measurements, or other record of identification, heretofore or hereafter taken by or under the direction of the attorney general, the superintendent of state police, the member or members of the police department of any city or town, o…

(a) By operation of law, the court shall automatically seal the records of any criminal case that was dismissed pursuant to the district court rule of criminal procedure 48(a), including all records of the division of criminal identification established by § 12-1-4 without the re…

(a) Definitions. (1) “Law enforcement agency” means the department of attorney general; the superintendent of the state police, or his or her designee; the member, or members, of the police department of any city or town; a state or local police organization of this or any other …

(a) Any body attachment issued by the family court in a case involving the bureau of family support relating to the nonsupport of children shall be entered into the state and police telecommunications system known as the Rhode Island Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, “RI…

No employer shall discharge or take any disciplinary action against an employee based on the employer’s notification or obligation provisions contained in Chapter 370, Article 29 and Chapter 374 of the 1995 Public Laws.

(a) In order to: (1) Prevent the injustice of a wrongful conviction caused by mistaken eyewitness identification; (2) Improve lineup procedures during criminal investigations; and (3) Further improve the already high quality of criminal justice in our state, the general assembly …

(a) In order to assist Rhode Island’s religious organizations and houses of worship (hereinafter religious organization) with the ability to ensure that their staff, teachers, and employees are of good moral character, all persons eighteen (18) years of age or older seeking to wo…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sums that it may deem necessary for the payment of any services that may be authorized by the governor in the execution of the laws, the detection of crime and the apprehension of offenders, not including in the appropriation th…

Every town council of any town, or mayor of any city acting with the advice of the city council, may offer a suitable reward, not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) in any one case, for the detention, apprehension and conviction of any offender committing a high crime or misde…

There shall be a division of criminal identification in the department of the attorney general to be in charge of a chief who shall be appointed by the attorney general to serve at the pleasure of the attorney general, and who shall devote all of his or her time to the duties of …

It shall be the duty of the attorney general to procure and file for record in the office of his or her department so far as the same can be procured, fingerprints, plates, photos, outline pictures, descriptions, information, and measurements of all persons who shall be or shall …

The bureau of criminal identification in the department of attorney general shall use fingerprints as the exclusive method of positive identification.

It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the state police and the chiefs of police or town sergeants to furnish the bureau of criminal identification of the department of attorney general within ten (10) days of arrest, the fingerprints and physical description of all person…