PUBLIC LAW 105-251—OCT. 9, 1998 112 STAT. 1877 or criminal offenders. The administration of criminal justice includes criminal identification activities and the collection, storage, and dissemination of criminal history records. (7) CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY.— The term "criminal justice agency"— (A) means— (i) courts; and (ii) a governmental agency or any subunit thereof that— (I) performs the administration of criminal justice pursuant to a statute or Executive order; and (II) allocates a substantial part of its annual budget to the administration of criminal justice; and (B) includes Federal and State inspectors general offices. (8) CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES.— The term "criminal justice services" means services provided by the FBI to criminal justice agencies in response to a request for information about a particular individual or as an update to information previously provided for criminal justice purposes. (9) CRITERION OFFENSE.— The term "criterion offense" means any felony or misdemeanor offense not included on the list of nonserious offenses published periodically by the FBI. (10) DIRECT ACCESS.— The term "direct access" means access to the National Identification Index by computer terminal or other automated means not requiring the assistance of or intervention by any other party or agency. (11) EXECUTIVE ORDER.— The term "Executive order" means an order of the President of the United States or the chief executive officer of a State that has the force of law and that is promulgated in accordance with applicable law. (12) FBI. —The term "FBI" means the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (13) INTERSTATE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM. —The term "Interstate Identification Index System" or "III System"— (A) means the cooperative Federal-State system for the exchange of criminal history records; and (B) includes the National Identification Index, the National Fingerprint File and, to the extent of their participation in such system, the criminal history record repositories of the States and the FBI. (14) NATIONAL FINGERPRINT FILE.— The term "National Fingerprint File" means a database of fingerprints, or other uniquely personal identifying information, relating to an arrested or charged individual maintained by the FBI to provide positive identification of record subjects indexed in the III System. (15) NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION INDEX.— The term "National Identification Index" means an index maintained by the FBI consisting of names, identifying numbers, and other descriptive information relating to record subjects about whom there are criminal history records in the III System. (16) NATIONAL INDICES. —The term "National indices" means the National Identification Index and the National Fingerprint File.
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