California

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• § 11073.5 — This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2032, and as of that date is repealed.
• § 11073.6 — This article shall become operative only upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature for the purposes of this article.
• § 11075 — (a) As used in this article, “criminal offender record information” means records and data compiled by criminal justice agencies for purposes of identifying criminal offenders and of maintaining as to
• § 11076 — Criminal offender record information shall be disseminated, whether directly or through any intermediary, only to such agencies as are, or may subsequently be, authorized access to such records by sta
• § 11077 — The Attorney General is responsible for the security of criminal offender record information.
• § 11077.1 — (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, and except as provided by subdivision (b), the Department of Justice shall accept fingerprint images and related information to process criminal offender record informatio
• § 11077.2 — (a) The Attorney General shall establish a communication network that allows the transmission of requests from private service providers in California to the Department of Justice for criminal offende
• § 11078 — Each agency holding or receiving criminal offender record information in a computerized system shall maintain, for such period as is found by the Attorney General to be appropriate, a listing of the a
• § 11079 — (a) The Attorney General may conduct inquiries and investigations as he or she finds appropriate to carry out functions under this article.
• § 11080 — Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect the right of access of any person or public agency to individual criminal offender record information that is authorized by any other provision of
• § 11080.5 — A chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county shall be authorized to request and receive relevant information concerning persons when on parole who are or may be residing or temporarily domic
• § 11081 — Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize access of any person or public agency to individual criminal offender record information unless such access is otherwise authorized by law.
• § 1109 — (a) If requested by the defense, a case in which a gang enhancement is charged under subdivision (b) or (d) of Section 186.
• § 11100 — The Attorney General shall provide for the installation of a proper system and file in the office of the bureau, cards containing an outline of the method of operation employed by criminals in the com
• § 11101 — The Attorney General shall procure from any available source, and file for record and report in the office of the bureau, all descriptions, information, photographs, and measurements of all persons co
• § 11102 — The department may use the following systems of identification: the Bertillon, the fingerprint system, and any system of measurement that may be adopted by law in the various penal institutions of the
• § 11102.1 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Justice shall establish, implement, and maintain a certification program to process fingerprint-based criminal background clearances on individ
• § 11102.2 — (a) (1) As used in this section, “custodian of records” means the individual designated by an agency as responsible for the security, storage, dissemination, and destruction of the criminal records fu
• § 11103 — The Attorney General shall keep on file in the office of the bureau a record consisting of duplicates of all measurements, processes, operations, signaletic cards, measurements, and descriptions of al
• § 11104 — The Attorney General shall file all measurements, information and descriptions received and shall make a complete and systematic record and index, providing a method of convenience, consultation, and
• § 11105 — (a) (1) The Department of Justice shall maintain state summary criminal history information.
• § 11105.001 — (a) A government entity specified in subdivision (c) may require employees, prospective employees, volunteers, contractors, and subcontractors to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national crimina
• § 11105.002 — (a) A government entity specified in subdivision (c) shall require specified applicants to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check.
• § 11105.01 — In addition to furnishing state summary criminal history information to the persons and entities set forth in Section 11105 and subject to the requirements and conditions set forth in that section, th
• § 11105.02 — In addition to furnishing state summary criminal history information to the persons and entities set forth in Section 11105 and subject to the requirements and conditions set forth in that section, th
• § 11105.03 — (a) Subject to the requirements and conditions set forth in this section and Section 11105, local law enforcement agencies are hereby authorized to provide state criminal summary history information o
• § 11105.04 — (a) A designated Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program shall submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information of employment and volunteer candidates for the pur
• § 11105.05 — (a) Criminal justice agencies, as defined in Section 13101, shall require employees, prospective employees, volunteers, contractors, and subcontractors, to undergo a fingerprint-based state and nation
• § 11105.06 — The Department of Justice shall retain an individual’s fingerprint images and related information submitted as part of a peace officer or nonsworn law enforcement agency employee preemployment crimina
• § 11105.07 — (a) An animal control officer, when necessary for performing his or her official duties, shall provide a compelling reason to an appropriate criminal justice agency to obtain state summary criminal hi
• § 11105.08 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a tribe or tribal organization may request from the Department of Justice state and federal summary criminal history information for the purpose of licensing or appr
• § 11105.1 — (a) The following persons shall be furnished with state summary criminal history information when needed in the course of their duties: (1) The director of a state hospital or other treatment facility
• § 11105.2 — (a) (1) The Department of Justice may provide to any entity authorized by state or federal law to receive state or federal summary criminal history information, subsequent state or federal arrest or d
• § 11105.3 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a human resource agency or an employer may request from the Department of Justice records of all convictions or any arrest pending adjudication involving the offense
• § 11105.4 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a contract or proprietary security organization may request any criminal history information concerning its prospective employees that may be furnished
• § 11105.5 — When the Department of Justice receives a report that the record of a person has been sealed under Section 851.
• § 11105.6 — Upon the request of a licensed bail agent or bail bond licensee, as described in Sections 1276 and 1276.
• § 11105.7 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a person is required to submit fingerprints or a fingerprint card to the Department of Justice for a criminal background investigation for purposes
• § 11105.75 — (a) (1) If, in the course of performing a criminal history background investigation for an agency or entity statutorily authorized to receive a criminal history, the Department of Justice determines t
• § 11105.8 — A nonprofit organization that is funded pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 3796h of Title 42 of the United States Code may be granted access to local, state, or federal criminal justice system info
• § 11105.9 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 11105 and subdivision (a) of Section 13305, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may provide the social security numbers of current or fo
• § 11106 — (a) (1) In order to assist in the investigation of crime, the prosecution of civil actions by city attorneys pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), the arrest and prosecution of criminals, and
• § 11106.1 — Any system of microphotography, optical disk, or reproduction by other techniques that do not permit additions, deletions, or changes to the original document, may be used by the Department of Justice
• § 11106.2 — Any criminal justice agency may cause any or all files or records in its official custody to be microphotographed or otherwise reproduced pursuant to Section 11106.
• § 11106.3 — Fingerprints may be stored or created in an electronic format that does not permit additions, deletions or changes to the original fingerprints so long as the storage medium complies with the minimum
• § 11106.4 — (a) Every law enforcement agency shall develop, adopt, and implement written policies and standard protocols pertaining to the best manner to conduct a “welfare check,” when the inquiry into the welfa
• § 11107 — Each sheriff or police chief executive shall furnish all of the following information to the Department of Justice on standard forms approved by the department: Daily reports of those misdemeanors and
• § 11107.5 — The Attorney General shall report annually to the Legislature concerning the information pertaining to the sexual abuse of children reported to the Department of Justice pursuant to Sections 11107 and
• § 11107.6 — The Department of Justice shall inform the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Public Safety, and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety within 30 days of determining
• § 11108 — Each sheriff or police chief executive shall submit descriptions of serialized property, or nonserialized property that has been uniquely inscribed, which has been reported stolen, lost, found, recove
• § 11108.10 — (a) In addition to the requirements of Sections 11108.
• § 11108.2 — (a) A law enforcement agency shall enter or cause to be entered into the Department of Justice Automated Firearms System each firearm that has been reported stolen, lost, found, recovered, held for sa
• § 11108.3 — (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 11108.
• § 11108.5 — (a) If a law enforcement agency identifies serialized property or any property reported pursuant to Section 21628 of the Business and Professions Code that has been reported lost or stolen by the owne
• § 11108.9 — Each local law enforcement agency shall develop, in conjunction with and subject to the approval of the Department of Justice, a succinct Serial Number Restoration Plan setting forth the goals for red
• § 11109 — Each coroner promptly shall furnish the Department of Justice with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight-inch by eight-inch cards, and descriptions and other identifying data, including date an
• § 1111 — A conviction can not be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corr
• § 1111.5 — (a) A jury or judge may not convict a defendant, find a special circumstance true, or use a fact in aggravation based on the uncorroborated testimony of an in-custody informant.
• § 11111 — The Department of Justice shall maintain records relative to stolen and lost bicycles in the Criminal Justice Information System.
• § 11112 — The Department of Justice, in providing fingerprint clearances for employment purposes, shall facilitate the processing of fingerprint cards of employees of, and applicants for employment with, commun
• § 11112.1 — As used in this article: (a) “California Identification System” or “Cal-ID” means the automated system maintained by the Department of Justice for retaining fingerprint files and identifying latent fi
• § 11112.2 — The department shall develop a master plan recommending the type, number, and location of equipment necessary to implement RAN.
• § 11112.3 — (a) The Attorney General shall appoint a RAN Advisory Committee to review the master plan, policy guidelines, and administrative procedures prepared by the department and advise the Attorney General o
• § 11112.4 — (a) Within each county or group of counties eligible to receive funding under the department’s master plan for equipment, that elects to participate in the Remote Access Network, a local RAN board sha
• § 11112.5 — (a) Costs for equipment purchases based upon the master plan approved by the Attorney General, including state sales tax, freight, insurance, and installation, shall be prorated between the state and
• § 11112.6 — (a) The Cal-ID Telecommunications System shall be under the direction of the Attorney General and shall be used exclusively for the official business of the state, and the official business of any cit
• § 11112.7 — The Attorney General shall provide an annual status report to the Legislature beginning January 1, 1987, with the final report due January 1, 1990.
• § 11115 — In any case in which a sheriff, police department or other law enforcement agency makes an arrest and transmits a report of the arrest to the Department of Justice or to the Federal Bureau of Investig
• § 11116.10 — (a) Upon the request of a victim or a witness of a crime, the prosecuting attorney shall, within 30 days of the final disposition of the case, inform the victim or witness by letter of such final disp
• § 11116.5 — Any dismissal and reason therefor provided by Section 11115 or 13151.
• § 11116.6 — The dispositions provided by Sections 11115 and 13151.
• § 11116.7 — Whenever an accusatory pleading is filed in any court of this state alleging a public offense for which a defendant may be punished by incarceration, for a period in excess of 90 days, the court shall
• § 11116.8 — The certificate of disposition provided by Section 11116.
• § 11116.9 — The clerk of the court in which the disposition is made shall provide the defendant or his counsel of record with additional certified copies of the disposition certificate upon the payment of the fee
• § 11117 — The Department of Justice shall prescribe and furnish the procedures and forms to be used for the disposition and other reports required in this article and in Sections 13151 and 13152.
• § 1112 — Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (d) of Section 28 of Article I of the California Constitution, the trial court shall not order any prosecuting witness, complaining witness, or any other
• § 11120 — As used in this article, “record” with respect to any person means the state summary criminal history information as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 11105, maintained under such person’s name by
• § 11121 — It is the function and intent of this article to afford persons concerning whom a record is maintained in the files of the bureau an opportunity to obtain a copy of the record compiled from such files
• § 11122 — Any person desiring a copy of the record relating to himself shall obtain an application form furnished by the department which shall require his fingerprints in addition to such other information as
• § 11123 — The applicant shall submit the completed application directly to the department.
• § 11124 — When an application is received by the department, the department shall determine whether a record pertaining to the applicant is maintained.
• § 11125 — No person or agency shall require or request another person to furnish a copy of a record or notification that a record exists or does not exist, as provided in Section 11124.
• § 11126 — (a) If the applicant desires to question the accuracy or completeness of any material matter contained in the record, the applicant may submit a written request to the department in a form established
• § 11127 — The department shall adopt all regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.
• § 1113 — The Court may direct the jury to be discharged where it appears that it has not jurisdiction of the offense, or that the facts charged do not constitute an offense punishable by law.
• § 1114 — If the jury be discharged because the Court has not jurisdiction of the offense charged, and it appear that it was committed out of the jurisdiction of this State, the defendant must be discharged.
• § 11140 — As used in this article: (a) “Record” means the state summary criminal history information as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 11105, or a copy thereof, maintained under a person’s name by the De
• § 11141 — Any employee of the Department of Justice who knowingly furnishes a record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized by law to receive the record or information is guilty
• § 11142 — Any person authorized by law to receive a record or information obtained from a record who knowingly furnishes the record or information to a person who is not authorized by law to receive the record
• § 11143 — Any person, except those specifically referred to in Section 1070 of the Evidence Code, who, knowing he is not authorized by law to receive a record or information obtained from a record, knowingly bu
• § 11144 — (a) It is not a violation of this article to disseminate statistical or research information obtained from a record, provided that the identity of the subject of the record is not disclosed.
• § 11145 — In lieu of a national check of fingerprint records conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the California Department of Justice, state agencies shall contract with an independent vend
• § 11146 — This chapter applies to: (a) The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in licensing of all teaching and services credential applicants, pursuant to Section 44341 of the Education Code.
• § 11147 — In order that a thorough search may be conducted, the agencies listed in Section 11146 shall require applicants, as a condition of employment or licensing, to provide (a) their social security and dri
• § 11148 — The agencies listed in Section 11146 may contract with any vendor demonstrating the capability to conduct such background searches in a timely manner and with the assurance of complete confidentiality
• § 11149 — In order to expedite the work of the vendor, all applications submitted to the vendor shall include the results of the fingerprint checks conducted by the California Department of Justice.
• § 11149.1 — Vendors are exempted from any provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1798) of Title 1.
• § 11149.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, applicants may be charged for the actual cost of the national search required by this statute, including administrative costs, not to exceed forty dollars (
• § 11149.3 — Any vendor or employee of a vendor who knowingly furnishes a record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized by law to receive the record or information shall be guilty
• § 11149.4 — Any vendor or employee of a vendor who intentionally discloses information, not otherwise public, which that person knows or should reasonably know was obtained from confidential information, shall be
• § 1115 — If the offense was committed within the exclusive jurisdiction of another county of this State, the Court must direct the defendant to be committed for such time as it deems reasonable, to await a war
• § 11150 — Prior to the release of a person convicted of arson from an institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, the Director of Corrections shall notify in writing the State Fire Mars
• § 11151 — Within five days after release of a person convicted of arson from an institution under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals, the Director of State Hospitals shall send the noti
• § 11152 — Upon receipt of a notice as provided in Section 11150 or 11151, the State Fire Marshal shall notify all regularly organized fire departments in the county in which the person was convicted and, if kno
• § 11155 — (a) As soon as placement of an inmate in any reentry or work furlough program is planned, but in no case less than 60 days prior to that placement, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sha
• § 11156 — The notice sent to the chief of police and county sheriff pursuant to Section 11155 shall include an actual glossy photograph no smaller than 3 1 8 x 3 1 8 inches in size, in conjunction with the Depa
• § 11157 — The victims may be notified of the opportunity to receive the notices provided by this article by means of adding a paragraph to the information contained on subpoena forms which are used in subpoenai
• § 11158 — As used in this article, “victim” means any person alleged or found, upon the record, to have sustained physical or financial injury to person or property as a direct result of the crime charged.
• § 1116 — If the defendant is not arrested on a warrant from the proper county, as provided in section 1115, he must be discharged from custody, or his bail in the action is exonerated, or money deposited inste
• § 11160 — (a) A health practitioner, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 11162.
• § 11160.1 — (a) Any health practitioner employed in any health facility, clinic, physician’s office, local or state public health department, or a clinic or other type of facility operated by a local or state pub
• § 11161 — Notwithstanding Section 11160, the following shall apply to every physician or surgeon who has under his or her charge or care any person described in subdivision (a) of Section 11160: (a) The physici
• § 11161.2 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that adequate protection of victims of domestic violence and elder and dependent adult abuse has been hampered by lack of consistent and comprehensive medical ex
• § 11161.5 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that on or before January 1, 2006, the California District Attorneys Association, in conjunction with interested parties, including, but not limited to, the Dep
• § 11161.8 — Every person, firm, or corporation conducting any hospital in the state, or the managing agent thereof, or the person managing or in charge of such hospital, or in charge of any ward or part of such h
• § 11161.9 — (a) A health practitioner who makes a report in accordance with this article shall not incur civil or criminal liability as a result of any report required or authorized by this article.
• § 11162 — A violation of this article is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and i
• § 11162.5 — As used in this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Health practitioner” has the same meaning as provided in paragraphs (21) to (28), inclusive, of subdivision (a) of Section 11165.
• § 11162.7 — This article shall not apply when a report is required to be made pursuant to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (Article 2.
• § 11163 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that even though the Legislature has provided for immunity from liability, pursuant to Section 11161.
• § 11163.2 — (a) In any court proceeding or administrative hearing, neither the physician-patient privilege nor the psychotherapist privilege applies to the information required to be reported pursuant to this art
• § 11163.3 — (a) A county may establish an interagency domestic violence death review team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing domestic violence deaths and near deaths, including homicides and su
• § 11163.4 — Subject to available funding, the Attorney General, working with the state domestic violence coalition, shall develop, no later than January 1, 2025, a protocol for the development and implementation
• § 11163.5 — (a) The purpose of this section is to coordinate and integrate state and local efforts to address fatal domestic violence, and to create a body of information to prevent domestic violence deaths.
• § 11163.6 — In order to ensure consistent and uniform results, data may be collected and summarized by the domestic violence death review teams to show the statistical occurrence of domestic violence deaths or ne
• § 11163.70 — For purposes of this article, unless the context requires otherwise, “homeless” has the same meaning as in subdivision (d) of Section 16523 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
• § 11163.71 — (a) A county may establish a homeless death review committee to assist local agencies in identifying the root causes of death of homeless individuals and facilitating communication among persons who p
• § 11163.72 — (a) An oral or written communication or a document shared within or produced by a homeless death review committee related to a homeless death review is confidential and not subject to disclosure or di
• § 11163.73 — (a) An organization represented on the homeless death review committee may share with other members of the committee information in its possession concerning the decedent who is the subject of the rev
• § 11163.74 — Information gathered by the homeless death review committee and any recommendations made by the committee shall be used by the county to develop education and prevention strategies that will lead to i
• § 11164 — (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
• § 11165 — As used in this article “child” means a person under the age of 18 years.
• § 11165.1 — As used in this article, “sexual abuse” means sexual assault or sexual exploitation as defined by the following: (a) “Sexual assault” means conduct in violation of one or more of the following section
• § 11165.11 — As used in this article, “licensing agency” means the State Department of Social Services office responsible for the licensing and enforcement of the California Community Care Facilities Act (Chapter
• § 11165.12 — As used in this article, the following definitions shall control: (a) “Unfounded report” means a report that is determined by the investigator who conducted the investigation to be false, to be inhere
• § 11165.13 — For purposes of this article, a positive toxicology screen at the time of the delivery of an infant is not in and of itself a sufficient basis for reporting child abuse or neglect.
• § 11165.14 — The appropriate local law enforcement agency shall investigate a child abuse complaint filed by a parent or guardian of a pupil with a school or an agency specified in Section 11165.
• § 11165.15 — For the purposes of this article, the fact that a child is homeless or is classified as an unaccompanied youth, as defined in Section 11434a of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U
• § 11165.2 — As used in this article, “neglect” means the negligent treatment or the maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child’s welfare under circumstances indicating harm or threatened harm t
• § 11165.3 — As used in this article, “the willful harming or injuring of a child or the endangering of the person or health of a child,” means a situation in which any person willfully causes or permits any child
• § 11165.4 — As used in this article, “unlawful corporal punishment or injury” means a situation where any person willfully inflicts upon any child any cruel or inhuman corporal punishment or injury resulting in a
• § 11165.5 — As used in this article, the term “abuse or neglect in out-of-home care” includes physical injury or death inflicted upon a child by another person by other than accidental means, sexual abuse as defi
• § 11165.6 — As used in this article, the term “child abuse or neglect” includes physical injury or death inflicted by other than accidental means upon a child by another person, sexual abuse as defined in Section
• § 11165.7 — (a) As used in this article, “mandated reporter” is defined as any of the following: (1) An employee, volunteer, or governing board or body member of a school district, county office of education, cha
• § 11165.9 — Reports of suspected child abuse or neglect shall be made by mandated reporters, or in the case of reports pursuant to Section 11166.
• § 11166 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), and in Section 11166.
• § 11166.01 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any supervisor or administrator who violates paragraph (1) of subdivision (i) of Section 11166 shall be punished by not more than six months in a county jail
• § 11166.02 — (a) A county welfare agency, in accordance with Section 10612.
• § 11166.05 — Any mandated reporter who has knowledge of or who reasonably suspects that a child is suffering serious emotional damage or is at a substantial risk of suffering serious emotional damage, evidenced by
• § 11166.1 — (a) (1) When an agency receives a report pursuant to Section 11166 that contains either of the following, it shall, within 24 hours, notify the licensing office with jurisdiction over the facility: (A
• § 11166.2 — In addition to the reports required under Section 11166, any agency specified in Section 11165.
• § 11166.3 — (a) The Legislature intends that in each county the law enforcement agencies and the county welfare or probation department shall develop and implement cooperative arrangements in order to coordinate
• § 11166.4 — (a) Each county may use a children’s advocacy center to implement a coordinated multidisciplinary response pursuant to Section 18961.
• § 11166.5 — (a) On and after January 1, 1985, any mandated reporter as specified in Section 11165.
• § 11167 — (a) Reports of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect pursuant to Section 11166 or Section 11166.
• § 11167.5 — (a) The reports required by Sections 11166 and 11166.
• § 11168 — The written reports required by Section 11166 shall be submitted on forms adopted by the Department of Justice after consultation with representatives of the various professional medical associations
• § 11169 — (a) An agency specified in Section 11165.
• § 1117 — If the jury is discharged because the facts as charged do not constitute an offense punishable by law, the court must order that the defendant, if in custody, be discharged; or if admitted to bail, th
• § 11170 — (a) (1) The Department of Justice shall maintain an index of all reports of child abuse and severe neglect submitted pursuant to Section 11169.
• § 11170.5 — (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 11170, the Department of Justice shall make available to a licensed adoption agency, as defined in Section 8530 of the Family Code, info
• § 11171 — (a) (1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that adequate protection of victims of child physical abuse or neglect has been hampered by the lack of consistent and comprehensive medical examinati
• § 11171.2 — (a) A physician and surgeon or dentist or their agents and by their direction may take skeletal X-rays of the child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian, but only for purposes of diag
• § 11171.5 — (a) If a peace officer, in the course of an investigation of child abuse or neglect, has reasonable cause to believe that the child has been the victim of physical abuse, the officer may apply to a ma
• § 11172 — (a) No mandated reporter shall be civilly or criminally liable for any report required or authorized by this article, and this immunity shall apply even if the mandated reporter acquired the knowledge
• § 11174 — The Department of Justice, in cooperation with the State Department of Social Services, shall prescribe by regulation guidelines for the investigation of abuse in out-of-home care, as defined in Secti
• § 11174.1 — (a) The Department of Justice, in cooperation with the State Department of Social Services, shall prescribe by regulation guidelines for the investigation of child abuse or neglect, as defined in Sect
• § 11174.3 — (a) Whenever a representative of a government agency investigating suspected child abuse or neglect or the State Department of Social Services deems it necessary, a suspected victim of child abuse or
• § 11174.32 — (a) Each county may establish an interagency child death review team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious child deaths and facilitating communication among persons who perf
• § 11174.33 — Subject to available funding, the Attorney General, working with the California Consortium of Child Abuse Councils, shall develop a protocol for the development and implementation of interagency child
• § 11174.34 — (a) (1) The purpose of this section shall be to coordinate and integrate state and local efforts to address fatal child abuse or neglect, and to create a body of information to prevent child deaths.
• § 11174.35 — The State Department of Social Services shall work with state and local child death review teams and child protective services agencies in order to identify child death cases that were, or should have
• § 11174.4 — The following definitions shall govern the construction of this article, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Elder” means any person who is 65 years of age or older.
• § 11174.5 — (a) Each county may establish an interagency elder and dependent adult death review team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious elder and dependent adult deaths and facilitat
• § 11174.6 — County elder death review teams may be comprised of, but not limited to, the following: (a) Experts in the field of forensic pathology.
• § 11174.7 — (a) An oral or written communication or a document shared within or produced by an elder and dependent adult death review team related to an elder or dependent adult death review is confidential and n
• § 11174.8 — (a) Each organization represented on an elder death review team may share with other members of the team information in its possession concerning the decedent who is the subject of the review or any p
• § 11174.9 — Information gathered by the elder death review team and any recommendations made by the team shall be used by the county to develop education, prevention, and if necessary, prosecution strategies that
• § 11175 — This article may be cited as the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision.
• § 11176 — Pursuant to the authority vested in this State by that certain act of Congress, approved June 6, 1934, and entitled “An act granting the consent of Congress to any two or more states to enter into agr
• § 11177 — The compact or compacts authorized by Section 11176 shall be in substantially the following form: A compact entered into by and among the contracting states, signatories hereto, with the consent of th
• § 11177.1 — (a) Before a probationer or parolee may be returned to the sending state under this compact, he shall have a right to counsel and to a hearing before a magistrate to determine whether he is in fact a
• § 11177.5 — The officer designated by the Governor pursuant to subdivision 5 of Section 11177 of this code may deputize any person regularly employed by another state to act as an officer and agent of this State
• § 11177.6 — The officer designated by the Governor pursuant to subdivision 5 of Section 11177 of this code may, subject to the approval of the Department of General Services, enter into contracts with similar off
• § 11178 — If any portion of this article is held unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of any other portions of this act.
• § 11179 — This article and compacts made pursuant thereto shall be construed as separate and distinct from any act or acts of this State relating to the extradition of fugitives from justice.
• § 1118 — In a case tried by the court without a jury, a jury having been waived, the court on motion of the defendant or on its own motion shall order the entry of a judgment of acquittal of one or more of the
• § 1118.1 — In a case tried before a jury, the court on motion of the defendant or on its own motion, at the close of the evidence on either side and before the case is submitted to the jury for decision, shall o
• § 1118.2 — A judgment of acquittal entered pursuant to the provisions of Section 1118 or 1118.
• § 11180 — The Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision as contained herein is hereby enacted into law and entered into on behalf of the state with any and all other states legally joining therein in a
• § 11181 — (a) There is hereby established the California Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision.
• § 11189 — The Interstate Corrections Compact as set forth in this section is hereby adopted and entered into with all other jurisdictions joining therein.
• § 1119 — When, in the opinion of the court, it is proper that the jury should view the place in which the offense is charged to have been committed, or in which any other material fact occurred, or any persona
• § 11190 — The Western Interstate Corrections Compact as contained herein is hereby enacted into law and entered into on behalf of this State with any and all other states legally joining therein in a form subst
• § 11191 — (a) Any court or other agency or officer of this state having power to commit or transfer an inmate, as defined in Article II(d) of the Interstate Corrections Compact or of the Western Interstate Corr
• § 11192 — The courts, departments, agencies and officers of this State and its subdivisions shall enforce this compact and shall do all things appropriate to the effectuation of its purposes and intent which ma
• § 11193 — Any inmate sentenced under California law who is imprisoned in another state, pursuant to a compact, shall be entitled to all hearings, within 120 days of the time and under the same standards, which
• § 11194 — The Director of Corrections is hereby empowered to enter into such contracts on behalf of this state as may be appropriate to implement the participation of this state in the Interstate Corrections Co
• § 11194.5 — (a) At the request of the board of supervisors of any county that is adjacent to another state, the county sheriff shall negotiate with the appropriate officials of the adjacent state to contract purs