Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 140-2-.16 - Training
Current through Rules and Regulations filed through April 4, 2022
(1) Criminal
justice officials and agency heads shall provide training and retraining, as
required by policy, to ensure their employees' effective performance of
job-specific tasks relating to
(a) Use of the
Georgia CJIS network and information files to which it provides access and CJIS
network terminal operations.
(b)
Use of NCIC.
(c) Use of
Nlets.
(d) Dissemination and use of
CHRI.
(e) State and national UCR
programs.
(f) Fingerprinting
arrested persons and use of the OTN and CTN when reporting an arrest, update or
modification of an offender's criminal history record.
(g) Preparing and submitting OBTS reports
with final dispositions of charges.
(2) All personnel directly associated with
maintaining, processing or disseminating CHRI shall be specially trained. The
training shall provide a working knowledge of federal and state regulations and
laws governing the security and processing of criminal justice information.
Agency heads are responsible for ensuring their personnel receive such training
as supported by the GCIC Policy Manual. In cases where agency head requests for
training cannot be accommodated within a reasonable time, employees are
required to read the Rules of the GCIC Council as contained herein. This will
provide basic knowledge regarding the access, use, control and dissemination of
criminal justice information until training occurs.
(3) Managers of computer centers and
governmental dispatch centers shall ensure that employees supporting criminal
justice operations are trained to perform job-specific tasks relating to the
functions described in paragraph (1) above.
(4) Each CJIS network terminal agency head
shall immediately appoint a TAC to serve as the agency point of contact on
GCIC/NCIC record validations, hit confirmations, training and all other
NCIC/CJIS network related matters. GCIC shall provide job-specific training for
TACs and any assistant TACs.
(5)
TACs must be trained as CJIS terminal operators before admission to the TAC
certification course. The minimum requirement is terminal operator
practitioner.
(6) TACs shall be
subject to certification training and testing within 90 days of
appointment.
(7) Each TAC must
attend a TAC refresher course, as required by GCIC policy, to maintain TAC
certification.
(8) Agency heads and
TACs are responsible for developing agency specific policies and procedures
relating to CJIS network operations and the administration of terminal operator
and practitioner training programs developed by GCIC. Agency heads have
discretion to designate CJIS network terminals users as either terminal
operators or practitioners.
(9)
Terminal operators are subject to certification testing within six months of
their employment or assignment of terminal operator duties and subject to
re-certification testing every two years thereafter for the duration of their
employment as terminal operators. Additionally, practitioners must receive
training in the components of CJIS network operations they use in performing
their official duties. Practitioners must also successfully complete
performance tests administered by TACs and are subject to retesting every two
years thereafter for the duration of their employment in which CJIS network
access in necessary to complete job assignments.
(10) The appointment of a TAC, the immediate
appointment of a new TAC when required to fill a TAC vacancy, the training,
testing and certification of the TAC, and the training, testing, certification
and recertification of terminal operators and practitioners are mandatory for
initial and on-going terminal agency status on the Georgia CJIS
network.
Notes
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