Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 22-1517: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation - Duties

A. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall be the

entity recognized by the Bureau of Justice Statistics as the

Statistical Analysis Center.

B. In addition to other duties specified by law, the duties of

the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall be to:

1. Provide a clearinghouse for criminal justice information;

2. Provide a central contact point for federal, state, and

local criminal justice agencies;

3. Provide technical assistance for all criminal justice

agencies of this state;

4. Provide consultation for criminal justice agencies of this

state in preparing reports, gaining funding, or preparing

information;

5. Obtain information from criminal justice agencies in this

state for analyses of criminal justice issues;

6. Collect and analyze criminal justice data;

7. Produce reports for state and local criminal justice

agencies;

8. Facilitate information networking between criminal justice

agencies;

9. Attend meetings concerning criminal justice issues;

10. Represent this state at national meetings including, but

not limited to, meetings or conferences of criminal justice

statistics associations of other states;

11. Assist in developing resources for the criminal justice

system;

12. Address pertinent issues related to prevention and

intervention programs;

13. Provide assistance to the Oklahoma Crime Stoppers

Association;

14. Create and publish by December 1 each year a uniform

reporting standard for citing state criminal statutes to be used in

reporting information to and from all criminal justice information

systems within this state. The uniform reporting standard shall be

developed in consultation with the Administrative Office of the

Courts, the Department of Corrections, the District Attorneys

Council, the Department of Public Safety through the Oklahoma Law

Enforcement Telecommunications System Division, and the Office of

Juvenile Affairs. The uniform reporting standard shall be used by

all criminal justice information systems and shall be the standard

for reporting arrests, criminal and juvenile delinquency charges,

charge and case dispositions, custody records, and any other record

purporting to identify a criminal history record or information

relating to arrests, charges, custody, adjudication, conviction, and

disposition of criminal or juvenile matters; and

15. Monitor all changes to state crime statutes within ninety

(90) days of the Legislature’s adjournment sine die for purposes of

including any changes in law or new offenses within the uniform

reporting standard.