1. a. The Division of State Police shall establish or continue to maintain, and update, as appropriate, an online portal, in the form of an Internet website, that, free of charge, allows a person who has been granted an order of expungement to ascertain the status of the electronic processing of that order by the State Bureau of Identification.
b. (1) The Division of State Police shall annually submit to the Governor and Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1) a report summarizing the number of expungement orders received year-to-date starting January 1 of the year being reported by expungement type, the number of expungement orders received each month by expungement type, the number of expungement orders processed year-to-date, and relevant processing timeframes.
(2) The report shall be based on the calendar year.
(3) The report shall be published on the official website of the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety.