Section 38.2 - Common Concept of Operations for Fusion Centers(a) A fusion center shall achieve and maintain the baseline fusion center capabilities and follow the baseline standards in this section to protect privacy, civil rights, civil liberties and promote consistency and interoperability between the fusion centers in the state. (b) A fusion center must have oversight and management by a state or local government criminal justice agency as defined by 28 CFR § 20.3(g). (c) A fusion center shall receive and maintain certification from the United States Department of Homeland Security that the fusion center has privacy, civil rights and civil liberties protections in place that are determined to be at least as comprehensive as the Information Sharing Environment Privacy Guidelines published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. (d) A fusion center shall maintain an all-crimes approach to recognize there is a nexus between certain types of criminal activity. A fusion center shall develop routine threat and risk assessments to assist in prioritizing specific crimes or hazards a region or the state should address and to identify other sources of information that may be useful to examine possible connections with other crimes. (e) A fusion center shall process, document, analyze and share all vetted suspicious activity reported to or identified by fusion center personnel with the Texas Suspicious Activity Reporting Network. A fusion center must begin the suspicious activity report vetting process within the Texas Suspicious Activity Reporting Network within twenty-four hours of receiving a report or identifying the suspicious activity. (f) A fusion center shall respond to a request from the Texas Fusion Center for information relevant to a statewide or regional threat assessment.37 Tex. Admin. Code § 38.2
Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 10, March 5, 2021, TexReg 1512, eff. 3/8/2021