State of Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Statute Service User Interface Prepared By: Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota Justice Information Systems 1430 Maryland Avenue East St. Paul, Minnesota 55106 SERVICE SUMMARY Service Name Statute Service User Interface Service Visibility Public Restricted Service Description The Criminal Justice Statute Service provides a central database for Minnesota criminal justice statutes, including felony, gross misdemeanor, misdemeanor, and petty misdemeanor offenses. The Criminal Justice Statute Service provides users the ability to easily search for specific criminal justice statutes by statute number, offense level, effective date, function or keyword. It also provides users and systems the ability to register and create an account with the service which will allow users to do the following: subscribe to receive email notices of selected updates (additions, modifications, corrections) made to statutes in the service and submit requests for statutes to be added and/or corrected on the service, and view and filter other submitted online requests. Accessibility Statute information provided by this service is public information and may be shared with other criminal justice agencies/personnel as well as the general public as needed for criminal justice and non-criminal justice purposes. Service Inputs Not applicable Service Outputs Not applicable Status Concept Planned Available Statute Service User Interface Page 1 of 5
Table of Contents Service Overview... 3 Service Consumers and Access Rights... 3 Service-Related Statutes and Rules... 3 Auditing Requirements... 4 Accessing the Service... 5 Statute Service User Interface Page 2 of 5
Service Overview The Statute Service User Interface provides a browser based lookup service to validate statute citations and StatuteIDs. The Statute Service User Interface also provides legislative language for statutes that are currently in effect and those that are no longer in effect. The MN Statute Service accesses a repository containing all criminal charging and sentencing statutes. The database includes citation, charges, penalties, modifiers and definitions for the statutes. The repository contains the current statutes, along with the history of the statutes. The database is limited to statute information and is not a repository of crimes or a record of criminal activity by an individual. This service provides the ability to: Search for a list of statutes from the database meeting specific criteria (Chapter and Section number, keyword, etc). Obtain a copy of all the statutes within the database Retrieve a single statute based on the unique StatuteId assigned to each statute Obtain legislative text associated with a statute Retrieve statutes that have changed during a particular date range provided by the client. Provides users and systems the ability to register and create an account with the service which will allow users to do the following: Subscribe to receive email notices of selected updates (additions, modifications, corrections) made to statutes in the service. Submit requests for statutes to be added and/or corrected on the service. View and filter other submitted online requests. Service Consumers and Access Rights Statute information provided by this service is public information and may be shared with other criminal justice agencies/personnel as well as the general public as needed for criminal justice and non-criminal justice purposes. Service-Related Statutes and Rules There no statutes relating to the use of this Service. Statute Service User Interface Page 3 of 5
Auditing Requirements No service-specific auditing requirements currently exist for this service. Statute Service User Interface Page 4 of 5
Accessing the Service The Statute Service User Interface is found at https://webservices.crimnet.state.mn.us/statute/ Statute Service User Interface Page 5 of 5