Volume 68
Public Law 83–609
To provide that the Metropolitan Police force shall keep arrest books which are open to public inspection.
Approved August 20, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide that the Metropolitan Police force shall keep arrest books which are open to public inspection.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 386 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the District of Columbia, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 4–134), is amended by striking out the word “and” at the end of paragraph (3); by renumbering paragraph (4) as paragraph (5), and by inserting between paragraphs (4) and (5) the following new paragraph:
“(4) Arrest books, which shall contain the following information:
“(a) Case number, date of arrest, and time of recording arrest in arrest book;
“(b) Name, address, date of birth, color, birthplace, occupation, and marital status of person arrested;
“(c) Offense with which person arrested was charged and place where person was arrested;
“(d) Name and address of complainant;
“(e) Name of arresting officer; and
“(f) Disposition of case; and”.
Sec. 2.
Section 389 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the District of Columbia, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 4–135), is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 389.
The records to be kept by paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and
Public inspection.
(4) of section 386 shall be open to public inspection when not in actual use and this requirement shall be enforceable by mandatory injunction issued by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on the application of any person.”
Approved August 20, 1954.