(a) The statements, photographs and fingerprints herein mentioned shall at all times be kept by the Police Chief in a file separate and apart from other files and records maintained and kept by the Police Department and shall not be opened to inspection by the public or by any person other than a regular member of the Police Department or a regularly employed peace or other law enforcement officer. Any such photograph or the duplicate thereof may be exhibited to persons other than police officers of the City for the purpose of assisting in identifying perpetrators of any crime, particularly of the sex crimes set forth in this chapter.
Copies of statements, photographs and fingerprints may be transmitted to the sheriff of any county in the State, to the head of any organized police department of any municipality, to the head of any department in the State or the Federal Government engaged in law enforcement, to any sheriff or chief of police of a municipality or to the head of any other law enforcement agency of any state or territory outside the State.
Any request shall be made in writing by such sheriff or other person named therein for the record of a person whose photograph or fingerprint reasonably corresponds with the photograph or fingerprints submitted with such request and shall state that such record is deemed necessary for the use of law enforcement officers in or concerning the investigation of any crime, or any person who is accused of committing such crime, or any crime which was reported to have been committed, and shall further state that the record will be used only for such purposes.
(Ord. 14-55. Passed 3-22-55.)
(b) Any police officer or employee of a police department who discloses to any person any information contained in any statement required to be filed under the provisions of this chapter otherwise than in the regular course of his duties pursuant to this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.