---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 20.1"
title: "28"
number: "20.1"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/20.1"
---

# §20.1. Purpose.


It is the purpose of these regulations to assure that criminal history record information wherever it appears is collected, stored, and disseminated in a manner to ensure the accuracy, completeness, currency, integrity, and security of such information and to protect individual privacy.


## Notes

### Amendments

[Order No. 2258-99, 64 FR 52226, Sept. 28, 1999]

### Source

Source: 41 FR 11714, Mar. 19, 1976, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 534; Pub. L. 92-544, 86 Stat. 1115; 42 U.S.C. 3711 et seq.; Pub. L. 99-169, 99 Stat. 1002, 1008-1011, as amended by Pub. L. 99-569, 100 Stat. 3190, 3196; Pub. L. 101-515, as amended by Pub. L. 104-99, set out in the notes to 28 U.S.C. 534.; Pub. L. 117-159, 136 Stat. 1313, 1331.

### Source

Source: Order No. 601-75, 40 FR 22114, May 20, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Order No. 2258-99, 64 FR 52226, Sept. 28, 1999]