{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-13101","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 13101","heading":"","body":"As used in this chapter, “criminal justice agencies” are those agencies at all levels of government which perform as their principal functions, activities which either:\n(a) Relate to the apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, incarceration, or correction of criminal offenders; or\n(b) Relate to the collection, storage, dissemination or usage of criminal offender record information.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 4. PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS [11006. - 14315.]","TITLE 3. CRIMINAL STATISTICS [13000. - 13400.]","CHAPTER 2. Criminal Offender Record Information [13100. - 13370.]","ARTICLE 1. Legislative Findings and Definitions [13100. - 13104.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"aa0f8e8a54dc3e3e5c79eeb3420ed8880301740ac1ba245b45fbdabc9cddfb8a","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-13100.2","next":"us-ca/pen-13102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}