The Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences had no regulation on how to terminate a case when materials of investigation cards were not made out. Even before registering materials of investigation cards in E-CRIS (Electronic Criminal Record Identification System), contents of the materials of investigation cards included important personal information and investigation of a suspect to regulate legal basis management at the stage of preparation, deletion and repeal, etc.
The law in force had a basis of the existence of the materials of investigation cards made by special judicial police official by the Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences and its Enforcement Decree, and it had no legal basis of concrete contents. Therefore, the laws and regulations on preparation of the materials of investigation cards of special judicial police official should be newly enacted or applications of preparation of existing materials of investigation cards were demanded to specify special judicial police management.
Previous criminal records were illegally inquired mainly because the Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences and other laws and regulations regulated references and reply of previous criminal records here and there.
Therefore, laws and regulations on references and reply of previous criminal records were required to regulate types, scope and limitation of previous criminal records by single law, that is to say, the Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences. Considering basic spirit of the Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences, the law had better include positive list that regulated references and reply of previous criminal records within laws and regulations.
As explained before, regulations of references and reply of previous criminal records were required to specify them by the Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences: When enactment was made, the Enforcement Decree of the law was required to specify inquiry and scope of reply, etc clearly.
Legislation of inquiry as well as division of the scope of inquiry could prevent illegal references and reply indirectly, while reinforced punishment of the one who did illegal references and reply of previous criminal records could do directly. To protect personal information and privacy effectively, legal punishment and sentence were demanded to reinforce against illegal references and reply.
The punishment with a fine that mostly consisted of minor crimes was required to exclude previous criminal records below than a certain money value from the materials of criminal records and to include them in the materials of criminal records that could not be included in previous criminal records. In the case, the judicial police officer was permitted not to make out materials of investigation cards to meet legislative purposes of the Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences for the ones who were given summary judgment.
When legal period elapsed, the Act on the Lapse of Criminal Sentences could delete materials of investigation records. And, the law limited scope of the deletion so much not to meet legislative purposes. When criminal investigation records could be deleted immediately, scope of legal punishment should be reduced to expand scope of the deletion and to remove criminal investigation records of minor crimes as soon as possible and to alleviate psychological burden of a suspect and meet legislative purposes of the law.