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2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 11.7 - CENTRAL COAST RURAL CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM › Section 14181.

14181. (a) The Counties of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Benito may each develop within its respective jurisdiction a Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program, which shall be administered in San Benito County, Santa Barbara County, Santa Cruz County, and San Luis Obispo County by the county district attorney’s office or the county sheriff’s office under a joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code.
(b) The parties to each agreement shall form a regional task force that shall be known as the Central Coast Rural Crime Task Force, that includes the respective county office of the county agricultural commissioner, the county district attorney, the county sheriff, and interested property owner groups or associations. The task force shall be an interactive team working together to develop crime prevention, problem solving, and crime control techniques, to encourage timely reporting of crimes, and to evaluate the results of these activities. The task force may operate from a joint facility in order to facilitate investigative coordination. The task force may also consult with experts from the United States military, other law enforcement entities, and various private organizations as deemed necessary to maximize the effectiveness of this program. Media and community support may be solicited to promote this program. Each of the participating designated counties shall adopt rules and regulations for the implementation and administration of this program.
(1) The Central Coast Rural Crime Task Force may develop rural crime prevention programs containing a system for reporting rural crimes that enables the swift recovery of stolen goods and the apprehension of criminal suspects for prosecution. The task force may develop computer software and use communication technology to implement the reporting system, although the task force is not limited to the use of these means to achieve the stated goals.
(2) The Central Coast Rural Crime Task Force may develop a uniform procedure for all participating counties to collect, and each participating county may collect, data on agricultural crimes. The task force may also establish a central database for the collection and maintenance of data on agricultural crimes and designate one participating county to maintain the database.
(c) The staff for each program shall consist of the personnel designated by the district attorney and sheriff for each county in accordance with the joint powers agreement.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 43, Sec. 82. (SB 1023) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 11.7 - CENTRAL COAST RURAL CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM › Section 14182.

14182. Sources of funding for the program may include, but shall not be limited to, appropriations from local government and private contributions.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 18, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14200.

14200. (a) The Attorney General shall establish and maintain the Violent Crime Information Center to assist in the identification and the apprehension of persons responsible for specific violent crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of persons, particularly children and at-risk adults.
(b) The center shall establish and maintain programs which include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Developing violent offender profiles.
(2) Assisting local law enforcement agencies and county district attorneys by providing investigative information on persons responsible for specific violent crimes and missing person cases.
(3) Providing physical description information and photographs, if available, of missing persons to county district attorneys, nonprofit missing persons organizations, and schools.
(4) Providing statistics on missing at-risk adults and on missing children, including, as may be applicable, family abductions, nonfamily abductions, voluntary missing, and lost children or lost at-risk adults.
(c) The Attorney General shall provide training on the services provided by the center to line personnel, supervisors, and investigators in the following fields: law enforcement, district attorneys’ offices, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, probation departments, court mediation services, and the judiciary.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 9. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14201.

14201. The Attorney General shall employ within the Department Justice, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, crime analysts with expertise in child abuse, missing persons, child abductions, and sexual assaults, who shall electronically share their data, analysis, and findings on violent crime cases with each other, and to electronically provide law enforcement agencies with information to assist in the identification, tracking, and apprehension of violent offenders.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 434, Sec. 20. (SB 827) Effective January 1, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14201.2.

14201.2. Notwithstanding any other law, a law enforcement agency may request a copy of information or data maintained by the Department of Justice pursuant to this title, for the purpose of linking an unsolved missing or unidentified person case with another case that was previously unknown to be related to that case, or for the purpose of resolving an unsolved missing or unidentified person case. This section does not supersede subdivision (b) of Section 14204 or subdivision (f) of Section 14205.
(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 432, Sec. 2.5. (SB 846) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14202.

14202. The Attorney General shall establish and maintain, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, the California Sex and Arson Registry to track and monitor offenders and their activities. The system shall provide local law enforcement agencies with investigative leads to assist in the resolution of violent crimes.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 434, Sec. 21. (SB 827) Effective January 1, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14203.

14203. (a) The Attorney General shall establish and maintain within the center an investigative support unit and an automated violent crime method of operation system to facilitate the identification and apprehension of persons responsible for murder, kidnap, including parental abduction, false imprisonment, or sexual assault. This unit shall be responsible for identifying perpetrators of violent felonies collected from the center and analyzing and comparing data on missing persons in order to determine possible leads which could assist local law enforcement agencies. This unit shall only release information about active investigations by police and sheriffs’ departments to local law enforcement agencies.
(b) The Attorney General shall make available to the investigative support unit files organized by category of offender or victim and shall seek information from other files as needed by the unit. This set of files may include, among others, the following:
(1) Missing or unidentified, deceased persons’ dental files filed pursuant to this title, Section 27521 of the Government Code, or Section 102870 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2) Child abuse reports filed pursuant to Section 11169.
(3) Sex offender registration files maintained pursuant to Section 290.
(4) State summary criminal history information maintained pursuant to Section 11105.
(5) Information obtained pursuant to the parent locator service maintained pursuant to Section 11478.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(6) Information furnished to the Department of Justice pursuant to Section 11107.
(7) Other Attorney General’s office files as requested by the investigative support unit.
(c) The investigative support unit shall make available, within two hours of a reported stranger abduction of a child, a list of persons required to register as sex offenders based upon the modus operandi, if available, or the specified geographical location from which the child was abducted.
(Added by renumbering Section 14202 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 16. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14204.

14204. (a) The Attorney General shall establish within the center and shall maintain an online, automated computer system designed to effect an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons. The Attorney General shall design the computer system, using any existing system, including the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, to include an active file of information concerning persons reported to it as missing and who have not been reported as found. The computer system shall also include a confidential historic database. The Attorney General shall develop a system of cataloging missing person reports according to a variety of characteristics in order to facilitate locating particular categories of reports as needed.
(b) The Attorney General’s active files described in subdivision (a) shall be made available to law enforcement agencies. The Attorney General shall provide to these agencies the name and personal description data of the missing person including, but not limited to, the person’s date of birth, color of eyes and hair, sex, height, weight, and race, the time and date he or she was reported missing, the reporting agency, and any other data pertinent to the purpose of locating missing persons. However, the Attorney General shall not release the information if the reporting agency requests the Attorney General in writing not to release the information because it would impair a criminal investigation.
(c) The Attorney General shall distribute a missing children and at-risk adults bulletin on a quarterly basis to local law enforcement agencies, district attorneys, and public schools. The Attorney General shall also make this information accessible to other parties involved in efforts to locate missing children and at-risk adults and to those other persons as the Attorney General deems appropriate.
(Added by renumbering Section 14201 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 10. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14205.

14205. (a) The online missing persons registry shall accept and generate complete information on a missing person.
(b) The information on a missing person shall be retrievable by any of the following:
(1) The person’s name.
(2) The person’s date of birth.
(3) The person’s social security number.
(4) Whether a dental chart has been received, coded, and entered into the National Crime Information Center Missing Person System by the Attorney General.
(5) The person’s physical description, including hair and eye color and body marks.
(6) The person’s known associates.
(7) The person’s last known location.
(8) The name or assumed name of the abductor, if applicable, other pertinent information relating to the abductor or the assumed abductor, or both.
(9) Any other information, as deemed appropriate by the Attorney General.
(c) The Attorney General, in consultation with local law enforcement agencies and other user groups, shall develop the form in which information shall be entered into the system.
(d) The Attorney General shall establish and maintain within the center a separate, confidential historic database relating to missing children and at-risk adults. The historic database may be used only by the center for statistical and research purposes. The historic database shall be set up to categorize cases relating to missing children and at-risk adults by type. These types shall include the following:
(1) Runaways.
(2) Voluntary missing.
(3) Lost.
(4) Abduction involving movement of the victim in the commission of the crime or sexual exploitation.
(5) Nonfamily abduction.
(6) Family abduction.
(7) Any other categories as determined by the Attorney General.
(e) In addition, the data shall include the number of missing children and missing at-risk adults in this state and the category of each case.
(f) The center may supply information about specific cases from the historic database to a local police department, sheriff’s department, or district attorney, only in connection with an investigation by the police department, sheriff’s department, or district attorney of a missing person case or a violation or attempted violation of Section 220, 261.5, 273a, 273d, or 273.5, or any sex offense listed in Section 290, except for the offense specified in subdivision (d) of Section 243.4.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 626, Sec. 71. (AB 1171) Effective January 1, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14206.

14206. (a) The Attorney General shall establish within the Department of Justice the Missing and Exploited Children’s Recovery Network by July 31, 1995.
(b) This network shall consist of an automated computerized system that shall have the capability to electronically transmit to all state and local law enforcement agencies, and all cooperating news media services, either by facsimile or computer modem, a missing child poster that includes the name, personal description data, and picture of the missing child. The information contained in this poster shall include, but not be limited to, the child’s date of birth, color of eyes and hair, sex, height, weight, race, the time and date he or she was reported missing, the reporting agency, including contact person at reporting agency if known, and any other data pertinent to the purpose of locating missing persons.
(c) The Department of Justice shall work in cooperation with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to develop and implement a network that can electronically interface with the National Missing and Exploited Children’s Network.
(d) The Attorney General shall implement this network within existing Department of Justice resources.
(Added by renumbering Section 14201.5 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 13. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14207.

14207. (a) The Department of Justice shall establish and maintain a publicly accessible computer Internet directory of information relating to the following:
(1) Persons for whom an arrest warrant has been issued pursuant to an alleged violation of any offense defined as a violent felony in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5.
(2) At-risk missing persons.
(3) Unsolved homicides and unidentified persons.
(b) The Attorney General may determine the extent of information and the priority of cases to be included in the directory.
(c) The department shall keep confidential, and not enter into the directory, either of the following:
(1) Information regarding any case for which the Attorney General has determined that disclosure pursuant to this section would endanger the safety of a person involved in an investigation or the successful completion of the investigation or a related investigation.
(2) Information regarding an arrest warrant for which the issuing magistrate has determined that disclosure pursuant to this section would endanger the safety of a person involved in an investigation or the successful completion of the investigation or a related investigation.
(Added by renumbering Section 14201.6 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 14. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14208.

14208. (a) There shall be within the Department of Justice a director responsible for coordinating California’s response to missing persons. This position is hereby established for all of the following purposes:
(1) To assist law enforcement agencies, at their request, with the timely search and recovery of missing children.
(2) To maintain up-to-date knowledge and expertise of those protocols, best practices, and technologies that are most effective for recovering missing children in a timely manner.
(3) To maintain relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and other entities responsible for the investigation of missing persons in the state.
(4) To maintain records and make the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training Guidelines for Handling Missing Persons Investigations document available to law enforcement agencies upon request.
(b) The director shall utilize existing resources and expertise within the Attorney General’s office to the maximum extent possible to accomplish the purposes specified in subdivision (a).
(Added by renumbering Section 14201.8 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 15. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14209.

14209. The center shall make accessible to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System specific information authorized for dissemination and as determined appropriate by the center that is contained in law enforcement reports regarding missing or unidentified persons. The information shall be accessible in a manner and format approved by the center and shall be used to assist in the search for the missing person or persons. The center shall not permit the transmission or sharing of information, or portions of information, to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System unless the reporting agency, as specified in Section 14211, or the reporting party, with respect to the information submitted to the center, submits authorization to the center to transmit or share that information.
(Added by renumbering Section 14201.3 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 12. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14210.

14210. (a) The Department of Justice shall operate a statewide, toll-free telephone hotline 24 hours per day, seven days per week to receive information regarding missing children and at-risk adults and relay this information to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.
(b) The Department of Justice shall select up to six persons per month from the missing persons publicly accessible computer Internet directory maintained pursuant to Section 14207 and shall produce posters with photographs and information regarding these persons, including the hotline telephone number and reward information. The department shall make these posters available to parties as prescribed and as the department deems appropriate.
(c) The Department of Justice shall provide appropriate local reporting agencies with a list of persons still listed as missing who are under 21 years of age, and with an appropriate waiver form in order to assist the reporting agency in obtaining a photograph of each of the missing children.
(d) Local reporting agencies shall attempt to obtain the most recent photograph available for persons still listed as missing and forward those photographs to the Department of Justice.
(e) The department shall include these photographs, as they become available, in the quarterly bulletins pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14204.
(f) State and local elected officials, agencies, departments, boards, and commissions may enclose in their mailings information regarding missing children or at-risk adults obtainable from the Department of Justice or any organization that is recognized as a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization under state or federal law and that has an ongoing missing children program. Elected officials, agency secretaries, and directors of departments, boards, and commissions are urged to develop policies to enclose missing children or at-risk adults information in mailings if it will not increase postage costs and is otherwise deemed appropriate.
(Added by renumbering Section 14208 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 24. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14213.

14213. (a) When a person reported missing has been found, the sheriff, chief of police, coroner or medical examiner, or the law enforcement agency locating the missing person shall immediately report that information to the Attorney General’s office. The Attorney General’s office shall then notify the National Crime Information Center that the missing person has been found.
(b) When a missing person is found, the report indicating that the person is found shall be made not later than 24 hours after the person is found to the law enforcement agency that made the initial missing person report.
(c) In the event that a missing person is found alive or dead in less than 24 hours and the local police or sheriff’s department has reason to believe that the person had been abducted, the department shall submit a report to the center in a format established by the Attorney General. In the event that a missing person has been found before he or she has been reported missing to the center, the information related to the incident shall be submitted to the center.
(d) A law enforcement agency shall not establish or maintain any policy that requires the removal of a missing person entry from the center database or the National Crime Information Center database based solely on the age of the missing person.
(Added by renumbering Section 14207 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 23. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14214.

14214. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the duty of all law enforcement agencies to immediately assist any person who is attempting to make a report of a missing person or runaway.
(b) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall continue to implement the written policy, required to be developed and adopted pursuant to former Section 11114.3, for the coordination of each of its divisions with the police and sheriffs’ departments located within each division in taking, transmitting, and investigating reports of missing persons, including runaways.
(Added by renumbering Section 14210 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 26. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14215.

14215. (a) As used in this title, “missing person” includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(1) An at-risk adult.
(2) A child who has been taken, detained, concealed, enticed away, or retained by a parent in violation of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 277) of Title 9 of Part 1.
(3) A child who is missing voluntarily or involuntarily, or under circumstances not conforming to his or her ordinary habits or behavior and who may be in need of assistance.
(b) As used in this title, “at-risk” means there is evidence of, or there are indications of, any of the following:
(1) The person missing is the victim of a crime or foul play.
(2) The person missing is in need of medical attention.
(3) The person missing has no pattern of running away or disappearing.
(4) The person missing may be the victim of parental abduction.
(5) The person missing is mentally impaired, including cognitively impaired or developmentally disabled.
(c) As used in this title, “child” is any person under 18 years of age.
(d) As used in this title, “center” means the Violent Crime Information Center.
(e) As used in this title, “dental or medical records or X-rays” include all those records or X-rays which are in the possession of a dentist, physician and surgeon, or medical facility.
(f) As used in this title, “unidentified person” means a person, living or deceased, whose identity the local investigative agency is unable to determine.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 544, Sec. 1. (SB 1330) Effective January 1, 2017.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12 - VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER › Section 14216.

14216. (a) The Department of Justice, in conjunction with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, shall update any supervised release file that is available to law enforcement on the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System every 10 days to reflect the most recent inmates paroled from facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(b) The Department of Justice, in consultation with the State Department of State Hospitals, shall also update any supervised release file that is available to law enforcement on the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System every 10 days to reflect patients undergoing community mental health treatment and supervision through the Forensic Conditional Release Program administered by the State Department of State Hospitals, other than individuals committed as incompetent to stand trial pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1367) of Title 10 of Part 2.
(c) Each county probation department or other supervising county agency shall every 10 days, update any supervised release file that is available to them on the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System by entering any person placed onto postconviction supervision within their jurisdiction and under their authority, including persons on probation, mandatory supervision, and postrelease community supervision.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 332, Sec. 1. (AB 2606) Effective January 1, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12.2 - California Firearm Violence Research Act › CHAPTER 1 - California Firearm Violence Research Center › Section 14230.

14230. The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(a) Firearm violence is a significant public health and public safety problem in California and nationwide. Nationally, rates of fatal firearm violence have remained essentially unchanged for more than a decade, as declines in homicide have been offset by increases in suicide.
(b) California has been the site of some of the nation’s most infamous mass shootings, such as those at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, near the University of California, Santa Barbara in Isla Vista, and most recently at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. Yet public mass shootings account for less than 1 percent of firearm violence. In 2014, there were 2,939 firearm-related deaths in California, including 1,582 suicides, 1,230 homicides, 89 deaths by legal intervention, and 38 unintentional or undetermined deaths. In communities where firearm violence is a frequent occurrence, the very structure of daily life is affected.
(c) Nationwide, the annual societal cost of firearm violence was estimated at $229,000,000,000 in 2012. A significant share of this burden falls on California. In 2013, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development noted that government-sponsored insurance programs covered nearly two-thirds of the costs of hospitalizations for firearm assaults in California, and about one-half of the costs of hospitalizations for unintentional injuries or those resulting from deliberate self-harm.
(d) California has been a leader in responding to this continuing crisis. However, although rates of fatal firearm violence in California are well below average for the 50 states, they are not low enough.
(e) Too little is known about firearm violence and its prevention. This is in substantial part because too little research has been done. The need for more research and more sophisticated research has repeatedly been emphasized. California’s uniquely rich data related to firearm violence have made possible important, timely, policy-relevant research that cannot be conducted elsewhere. Because there has been so little support for research, only a small number of trained investigators are available.
(f) When confronted by other major health and social problems, California and the nation have mounted effective responses, coupling an expanded research effort with policy reform in the public’s interest. Motor vehicle accidents, cancer, heart disease, and tobacco use are all examples of the benefits of this approach.
(g) Federal funding for firearm violence research through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been virtually eliminated by Congress since 1996, leaving a major gap that must be filled by other sources.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 253, Sec. 4. (AB 173) Effective September 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12.2 - California Firearm Violence Research Act › CHAPTER 1 - California Firearm Violence Research Center › Section 14231.5.

14231.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Justice shall make information that is maintained in the California Restraining and Protective Order System or any other data relating to prohibitions on firearm ownership, available to researchers affiliated with the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis upon proper request and following approval by the center’s governing institutional review board when required. At the department’s discretion, the information may be provided to any other nonprofit bona fide research institution accredited by the United States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation for the study of the prevention of violence and following approval by the institution’s governing institutional review board or human subjects committee when required. Information may only be used for academic and policy research purposes. Any material identifying individuals shall not be transferred, revealed, or used for other than research or statistical activities and reports or publications derived therefrom shall not identify specific individuals.
(b) Where material described in subdivision (a) that identifies individuals is necessary for the center to conduct research, that material shall be provided. Material identifying individuals shall only be provided for research or statistical activities and shall not be revealed or used for purposes other than research or statistical activities. Reports or publications derived therefrom shall not identify specific individuals. Reasonable costs to the department associated with the department’s processing of that data may be billed to the researcher. If a request for data or letter of support for research using the data is denied, the department shall provide a written statement of the specific reasons for the denial.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 253, Sec. 6. (AB 173) Effective September 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12.2 - California Firearm Violence Research Act › CHAPTER 1 - California Firearm Violence Research Center › Section 14232.

14232. This chapter shall apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make any of these provisions applicable to the university.
(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 728, Sec. 2. (AB 521) Effective January 1, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12.2 - California Firearm Violence Research Act › CHAPTER 2 - Medical and Health Provider Education and Training Program › Section 14237.

14237. On or before December 31, 2020, and annually thereafter, the University of California shall transmit programmatic and financial reports on this program to the Legislature, including reporting on funding and expenditures by source, participation data, program accomplishments, and the future direction of the program. The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 728, Sec. 3. (AB 521) Effective January 1, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12.2 - California Firearm Violence Research Act › CHAPTER 2 - Medical and Health Provider Education and Training Program › Section 14238.

14238. This chapter shall apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make any of these provisions applicable to the university.
(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 728, Sec. 3. (AB 521) Effective January 1, 2020.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12.2 - California Firearm Violence Research Act › CHAPTER 3 - Research by Other Institutions › Section 14240.

14240. (a) The Department of Justice shall establish procedures to implement subdivision (t) of Section 1798.24 of the Civil Code to provide materials relating to individuals for research related to firearm violence. These procedures shall include, but not be limited to, requests for data and timely review of requests. At the department’s discretion, the information may be provided to any nonprofit bona fide research institution accredited by the United States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation for the purpose of studying the prevention of violence, following approval by the institution’s governing institutional review board or human subjects committee, when required.
(b) Material identifying individuals shall only be provided for research or statistical activities and shall not be revealed or used for purposes other than research or statistical activities. Reports or publications derived therefrom shall not identify specific individuals. Reasonable costs to the department associated with the department’s processing of the data may be billed to the researcher. If a request for data or letter of support for research using the data is denied, the department shall provide a written statement of the specific reasons for the denial.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 253, Sec. 8. (AB 173) Effective September 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 12.5 - DNA › Section 14251.

14251. (a) The “Missing Persons DNA Database” shall be funded by a two dollar ($2) fee increase on death certificates issued by a local governmental agency or by the State of California. The issuing agencies may retain up to 5 percent of the funds from the fee increase for administrative costs.
(b) Funds shall be directed on a quarterly basis to the “Missing Persons DNA Data Base Fund,” hereby established, to be administered by the department for establishing and maintaining laboratory infrastructure, DNA sample storage, DNA analysis, and labor costs for cases of missing persons and unidentified remains. Funds may also be distributed by the department to various counties for the purposes of pathology and exhumation consistent with this title. The department may also use those funds to publicize the database for the purpose of contacting parents and relatives so that they may provide a DNA sample for training law enforcement officials about the database and DNA sampling and for outreach.
(c) The identification of any backlog of human remain samples or samples donated by a family member or from a personal article belonging to the missing person may be outsourced to other laboratories at the department’s discretion.
(d) (1) The Department of Justice shall retain the authority to prioritize case analysis, giving priority to those cases involving children and those involving homicide victims.
(2) If federal funding is made available, it shall be used to assist in the identification of the backlog of high-risk missing person cases and long-term unidentified remains.
(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 228, Sec. 2. (AB 275) Effective October 11, 2009.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 13 - LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 14301.

14301. (a) There is hereby established in the agency, a program of financial assistance to do all of the following:
(1) Provide for statewide education and training programs in the enforcement of environmental laws for peace officers, investigators, state and local environmental regulators, public prosecutors, and community-based organizations.
(2) Establish enhanced local environmental enforcement efforts.
(3) Provide that disadvantaged communities, low-income residents, and other populations that are disproportionately burdened by pollution receive the benefit of enforcement of local, state, and federal environmental laws.
(4) All funds made available to the agency for the purposes of this title shall be administered and distributed by the secretary.
(b) Not later than 12 months after the date when this title may be implemented, as specified in Section 14314, the secretary shall prepare and issue regulations, which shall, at a minimum, describe how grants are to be allocated or awarded pursuant to this title, the procedures for applying for these grants, the criteria to be used in determining which applications will be funded, and the administrative and fiscal requirements governing the receipt and expenditure of these grants.
(c) The secretary shall periodically, and at least annually, subject to a sufficient balance in the Environmental Enforcement and Training Account, issue requests for proposals for the allocation and award of funds to public agencies or private nonprofit organizations, except for the California District Attorneys Association, for purposes of supporting environmental enforcement education and training programs for staff of community-based nonprofit organizations, peace officers, investigators, state and local environmental regulators, and public prosecutors pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 14304) and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 14306), which meet the criteria established pursuant to those chapters, and staff of community-based nonprofit organizations. To ensure that these programs are coordinated with existing peace officer training, the commission shall be consulted prior to the allocation of funds to peace officer education and training programs. The environmental enforcement education and training programs will be made available to staff of qualifying community-based nonprofit organizations on a no-cost basis.
(d) The secretary shall allocate and award funds to support the Environmental Circuit Prosecutor Grant Program pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 14309) for the purpose of improving enforcement of environmental laws by enhancing the investigation and prosecution of violations of those laws.
(e) The secretary shall post notices of awards issued and grantee reports received on a designated public internet webpage.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 83, Sec. 6. (SB 157) Effective July 16, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 13 - LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS › CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions › Section 14303.

14303. (a) There is hereby created, in the General Fund, the Environmental Enforcement and Training Account and up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) in the account may be expended annually by the agency, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of this title.
(b) The agency may accept and receive any contribution of funds from a public or private organization or an individual, including the proceeds from a judgment in state or federal court, when the funds are contributed or the judgment specifies that the proceeds are to be used to carry out the purposes of this title. Private contributors shall not have the authority to further influence or direct the use of their contributions.
(c) The agency shall immediately deposit any funds contributed pursuant to subdivision (b) in the account.
(d) As of January 1, 2003, all unallocated funds in the Hazardous Materials Enforcement and Training Account created pursuant to Chapter 743 of the Statutes of 1992 that derive from court judgments specifying that the funds may be used only for purposes of this title shall be transferred to the Environmental Enforcement and Training Account.
(e) (1) Any funds that are appropriated by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (a), allocated pursuant to Section 14314, and declined by the commission, shall be reallocated by the secretary as described in Section 14314.
(2) This subdivision applies to funds that are appropriated for the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 304, Sec. 12. (SB 428) Effective January 1, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 13 - LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS › CHAPTER 2 - Peace Officer Environmental Enforcement Training › Section 14304.

14304. (a) The commission shall develop or review and certify, not later than 12 months after the date when this title may be implemented, as specified in Section 14314, a course or courses of instruction for training local and state peace officers in the detection of violations, and in the apprehension of suspected violators, of state and local environmental laws.
(b) The course or courses of instruction shall, at a minimum, include training on all of the following:
(1) Understanding environmental laws.
(2) Detecting violations of environmental laws.
(3) Knowing steps to take when violations are discovered in order to protect public health and facilitate prosecution of violators.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1000, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2003.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 13 - LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS › CHAPTER 3 - Environmental Training And Enforcement › Section 14306.

14306. (a) The secretary shall provide funding to qualified grantees to develop and implement, not later than 12 months after the receipt of funds, a course or courses of instruction for the training of staff of community-based nonprofit organizations, public prosecutors, or staff of community-based nonprofit organizations and public prosecutors in the enforcement of state and local environmental laws.
(b) The course or courses of instruction shall, at a minimum, do one or more of the following:
(1) Provide an understanding of the requirements of environmental laws.
(2) Teach prosecution techniques that will facilitate prosecution of environmental law violations.
(c) The secretary shall not award a grant to, or enter into a contract with, the California District Attorneys Association for development and implementation of courses of instruction pursuant to this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 58, Sec. 32. (AB 200) Effective June 30, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 13 - LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS › CHAPTER 3 - Environmental Training And Enforcement › Section 14307.

14307. (a) The secretary shall provide funding to qualified grantees to develop and implement, not later than 12 months after the receipt of funds, a course or courses of instruction for the training of staff of community-based nonprofit organizations, or public prosecutors, fire departments, and state and local environmental regulators, or staff of community-based nonprofit organizations, public prosecutors, fire departments, and state and local environmental regulators.
(b) With the concurrence of the commission, peace officers may participate in the course or courses of training.
(c) The course or courses of instruction shall, at a minimum, do all of the following:
(1) Provide an understanding of the requirements of environmental laws.
(2) Teach enforcement investigative techniques that will facilitate the prosecution of environmental law violations.
(3) Provide environmental enforcement training materials.
(d) The secretary shall not award a grant to, or enter into a contract with, the California District Attorneys Association for development and implementation of courses of instruction pursuant to this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 58, Sec. 33. (AB 200) Effective June 30, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Penal Code - PEN › PART 4 - PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS › TITLE 13 - LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS › CHAPTER 3 - Environmental Training And Enforcement › Section 14308.

14308. (a) The secretary may award grants to public and private entities for training public prosecutors, peace officers, firefighters, community-based nonprofit organizations, and state or local environmental regulators in the investigation and enforcement of environmental laws.
(b) The secretary may award local assistance grants as follows for the enforcement of environmental laws:
(1) To local environmental regulators.
(2) To community-based nonprofit organizations.
(3) To local environmental regulators jointly with community-based nonprofit organizations.
(c) The secretary may allow local environmental regulators to subgrant funding to community-based nonprofit organizations.
(d) Grant funding awarded to community-based nonprofit organizations either directly by the secretary or through a subgrant pursuant to this section may be used to address environmental violations that occur in or disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities, to support the inclusion of residents of disadvantaged communities in environmental enforcement efforts, for the identification and investigation of environmental violations, and for the development and litigation of environmental enforcement cases.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 58, Sec. 34. (AB 200) Effective June 30, 2022.)