Bill Text: CA SB846 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Crimes: Violent Crime Information Center.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 432, Statutes of 2014. [SB846 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB846-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 846	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 3, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 25, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani
   (Coauthor: Senator Gaines)

                        JANUARY 9, 2014

   An act to add Section 14201.2 to the Penal Code, relating to
crimes.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 846, as amended, Galgiani. Crimes: Violent Crime Information
Center.
   Existing law establishes the Attorney General as the chief law
officer of the state, and grants the Attorney General specified law
enforcement powers. Existing law requires the Attorney General to
establish and maintain a Violent Crime Information Center to assist
in the identification and apprehension of persons responsible for
specific violent crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of
persons, particularly children and dependent adults. Existing law
also requires the Attorney General to provide information on reports
of missing persons to law enforcement agencies, as provided.
   This bill would clarify that, notwithstanding any other law, a law
enforcement agency is authorized to request a copy of information or
data maintained by the Department of Justice relating to the Violent
Crime Information Center. The bill would also provide related
legislative findings and declarations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following: 
   (a) According to a 2014 report by the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children entitled "The Identification of Unknown Child
Remains: Analysis of 25 Years of Recoveries and Lessons Learned," 68
percent of suspects in child abduction cases were known to the
victim. Of those suspects known to the victim, 40 percent were family
members and 60 percent were acquaintances.  
   (a) 
    (b)  Unsolved missing and unidentified persons
investigations generally lack an obvious connection between the
offender and the victim. 
   (b) 
    (c)  There is a high probability that unsolved missing
and unidentified persons cases across local jurisdictions may be
linked together. 
   (c) 
    (d)  It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of
the following:
   (1) Enable law enforcement agencies to generate a more effective
response in the identification, investigation, and adjudication of
unsolved missing and unidentified persons cases.
   (2) Enable the Attorney General to provide local law enforcement
agencies with access to existing informational resources within the
Department of Justice for the purpose of linking, and eventually
resolving, unsolved missing and unidentified persons cases that were
previously unknown to be related.
   (3) Authorize local law enforcement agencies from all local
jurisdictions within California to request existing information and
data maintained by the Department of Justice, for the purpose of
linking, and eventually resolving, unsolved missing and unidentified
persons cases.
  SEC. 2.  Section 14201.2 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   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
14201 or subdivision (e) of Section 14203.