651-F:1 Definitions. –
In this chapter:
I. "Criminal intelligence information" means information and data that have been determined through evaluation to be relevant to the identification of actual and impending criminal activity by an individual or group that is reasonably suspected of involvement in criminal or terrorist activity, and meets valid criminal intelligence suspicion criteria. Criminal activity shall not include motor vehicle-related offenses.
II. "Criminal intelligence system" means the arrangements, equipment, facilities, and procedures used for the receipt, analysis, storage, interagency sharing, or dissemination of criminal intelligence information.
III. "Information and analysis center" means an organizational entity within the department of safety that compiles, analyzes, and disseminates information in support of efforts to anticipate, identify, prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and human-caused threats to the state and its people or to the United States, on behalf of the single government agency and also operates an inter-jurisdictional intelligence sharing system on behalf of 2 or more participating agencies, whether called a criminal intelligence system, information and analysis center, fusion center, or by any other name.
IV. "Intelligence data" means information and data gathered from a number of sources that, when analyzed and evaluated, provides the basis for decision making to help ensure the safety and well-being of the people of New Hampshire from actual or impending criminal or terrorist activity.
V. "Inter-jurisdictional intelligence system" means an intelligence system that involves 2 or more participating agencies representing different governmental units or jurisdictions.
VI. "Participating agency" means an agency of a local, county, state, federal, or other governmental unit that exercises homeland security, emergency management, law enforcement, or criminal investigation authority and is authorized to submit and receive criminal intelligence data through an inter-jurisdictional intelligence system. A participating agency may be a member or non-member of an inter-jurisdictional intelligence system.
VII. "Personally identifiable data" means data or information that contains a person's name, date or place of birth, social security number, address, employment history, credit history, financial information, account numbers, cellular telephone, voice over Internet protocol or landline telephone numbers, biometric identifiers including fingerprints, facial photographs or images, retinal scans, DNA/RNA, or other identifying data unique to that individual.
VIII. "Reasonably suspected" means information received and evaluated by a law enforcement officer or intelligence analyst in consideration of his or her training and experience and the facts and circumstances under which it was received that would cause a prudent person to conclude that there are sufficient facts to believe that the information is relevant to and will aid in the detection, discovery, or interruption of actual, planned, or impending criminal or terrorist activity by an individual or group.
IX. "Validation of information" means the procedures governing the periodic review of criminal intelligence and personally identifiable data to assure its continuing compliance with system submission criteria.