Bill Text: TX HB2521 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the disclosure or release by a criminal justice agency of photographs taken pursuant to an arrest or other involvement in the criminal justice system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB2521 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2521-Introduced.html
85R8744 JSC-D | ||
By: Perez | H.B. No. 2521 |
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relating to the disclosure or release by a criminal justice agency | ||
of photographs taken pursuant to an arrest or other involvement in | ||
the criminal justice system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 60, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Article 60.062 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 60.062. LIMITATION ON DISCLOSURE OR RELEASE OF CERTAIN | ||
CRIMINAL JUSTICE PHOTOGRAPHS. (a) For purposes of this article, | ||
"criminal justice agency" includes, in addition to the agencies | ||
described by Article 60.01(6), a municipal or county agency, or | ||
school district law enforcement agency, that is engaged in the | ||
administration of criminal justice under a statute or executive | ||
order. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Article 60.06(c), a criminal justice | ||
agency may not disclose or release a photograph of an individual | ||
taken pursuant to an arrest or other involvement in the criminal | ||
justice system. | ||
(c) This article does not apply to the disclosure or release | ||
of a photograph to: | ||
(1) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the | ||
Department of Public Safety, or any other criminal justice agency; | ||
(2) the individual who is the subject of the | ||
photograph or the individual's legal counsel; or | ||
(3) any other person if the individual who is the | ||
subject of the photograph: | ||
(A) consents in writing to the disclosure or | ||
release of the photograph; or | ||
(B) is charged with an offense as part of the | ||
individual's involvement in the criminal justice system giving rise | ||
to the photograph. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to the | ||
disclosure or release of a photograph on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act, regardless of whether the photograph was taken before, | ||
on, or after that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |