(a) The director of the Vermont crime information center shall maintain and disseminate such files as are necessary relating to the commission of crimes, arrests, convictions, disposition of criminal causes, probation, parole, fugitives from justice, missing persons, fingerprints, photographs, stolen property and such matters as the commissioner deems relevant.

(b) The director shall maintain criminal records pursuant to this chapter regardless of whether the record is fingerprint supported. Any "no print, no record" rule or policy of the center shall be void. (Added 1969, No. 290 (Adj. Sess.), § 10; amended 2003, No. 122 (Adj. Sess.), § 86a.)