(a) Department responsibility. The department will maintain any intelligence component of the database described by this subchapter by extracting information from an investigative report or other intelligence source. The department assumes responsibility for 28 CFR compliance by the database.
(b) Local intelligence database. Nothing in Government Code, §411.051, or this subchapter prohibits a local law enforcement agency from establishing and maintaining a local intelligence database about an individual offender or group preying on the elderly.
(c) 28 CFR. The act of forwarding a copy of a report under this subchapter does not by itself expose the submitting agency to any 28 CFR requirement.
(d) Other intelligence reports. The department encourages submission and will accept any proper intelligence report about an individual offender or group preying on the elderly.

Source Note: The provisions of this §5.15 adopted to be effective March 25, 2002, 27 TexReg 2239; amended to be effective March 11, 2008, 33 TexReg 2036