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an a | - , KELLEY: 1 do not Tec) that they should be permitted i/ ‘angage in iitegal activities. There probabTy, in the years gone Vo throughout law enforcement, were, for exanipte, some illegal wiretap nd that Hiegality gave rise to Some criticism of the legal wiretaps Net today. \ _,% : . ; wa Ho, I do not fect that we should pe engaged at any time } qn any iliegal activity. 7 ‘ ae LEMRER: Al? right, sir, moving on to this area of Nee cserime infornation, crime data, you and sone mem bers of Congress “and others Stém te be at cdds over this on thi netions crime informa. «Eton computcr system. The key to the ce ntroversy, it seems to ne, hinges on access and accuracy. I'tl ask yeu, first of all,. is that correct? But the business of a person's past criminal record, geho shoulda be able to see it, whether the record should be kept = pedated. et cetera. What, first of al], is your position on this, asically? : sO KELLEY: Well, in’the first plece, there are certain sophings that you have to establish in a pes ten such os this. It ais a computer system. You have to establish security. There can't ray any poss ibila ty tiiat sone cutside creanization or some outside = facility can get in on it without difficulty. And 1] say "without Nitficulty": I gon't actually think you can get in con it... | LEKRER: “Outside” sieaning outside law enforcement? KELLEY: ho, not outside law enforcement. Some concern thich might be trying to get criminal records in order to sell them, “or something of that tyne. t * ev Then you have ta have reliability, an orgenization which Piigives good information for storage in the data hank. Thon you have ‘to fave accountability so that there cia be an assurance siven that fav? along the trail of information in, information out, there has tobe an inspection system, something to agsure accountability. oe So y feel that those things must be established. And Meaithe FRI, in my estimation, has proved itself as a proper, so-called chaperone of the system. Wetra@ not the Jeader of it. tetra merely ‘the one who is held for the accountability, for example. And this isecus to be one of the major problens. . \ rg - Another problem is the mattcr of sealing fecords, which’ lis within this: law. We de not feel that, the sealing should apply “Ato law enforcement. "4 7 LEWRER: You're talking about sealing past criminal records, right? a » KELLEY: Seven years, ov five years, whatever the- law fe t provide for. Me that there should be no scaliig off f ee Bee ee