Seattle Mun. Code ch. 14.12, subch. VII, § 14.12.290 Powers and functions
14.12.290 - Powers and functions
Whenever appropriations for the Department Criminal Information Section are included in the City's annual operating budget, the Section shall be authorized to perform the following functions, subject to the provisions of this Chapter 14.12:
A. Collect, evaluate, organize, and analyze data and specific investigative information about the existence, structure, activities, and operations of organized criminal activity that appears to involve regular coordination and organization among a number of individuals, and the participants in such activities;
B. To collect, evaluate, and classify information about incidents of unlawful activity, confirming the degree of accuracy of the information whenever possible; to store and/or disseminate only that private sexual or restricted information that appears to have a reasonable degree of reliability and to store and disseminate other information only if it is accompanied by an assessment of reliability; and to purge information that is no longer relevant;
C. To coordinate such information into a centralized system of criminal intelligence information and to study, detect, and explain any meaningful patterns of unlawful activities;
D. To furnish and exchange relevant criminal intelligence information with criminal justice agencies, to maintain liaison with other criminal intelligence activities, and to initiate inquiries and conduct criminal investigations;
E. To support other Department activities and units by delivering pertinent criminal intelligence information and to coordinate information that involves multiple investigatory divisions or units, at the direction of the Chief of the Department;
F. Upon request and at the direction of the Chief of the Department, to assist law enforcement agencies, the City Attorney, the King County Prosecuting Attorney, and the United States District Attorney in developing evidence for purposes of criminal prosecution of organized criminal activities;
G. To develop training programs that assist the Department's tactical units in detecting and gathering information relevant to criminal investigations being conducted by the Criminal Information Section; and
H. To develop methods for evaluating the effectiveness of the Criminal Information Section in accomplishing its law enforcement purposes and safeguarding the constitutional rights and privacy of all individuals.
(Ord. 110572, § 28, 1982; Ord. 108333, § 27, 1979.)