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

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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-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 846	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        JANUARY 9, 2014

   An act to amend Section 14200 of the Penal Code, relating to
crimes.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 846, as introduced, 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 the Attorney General is authorized to
perform the duties relating to the Violent Crime Information Center
independent of a request from another law enforcement agency.
   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.  Section 14200 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   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 dependent adults.
The center shall establish and maintain programs which include, but
are not limited to, all of the following: developing violent offender
profiles; assisting local law enforcement agencies and county
district attorneys by providing investigative information on persons
responsible for specific violent crimes and missing person cases;
providing physical description information and photographs, if
available, of missing persons to county district attorneys, nonprofit
missing persons organizations, and schools; and providing statistics
on missing dependent adults and on missing children, including, as
may be applicable, family abductions, nonfamily abductions, voluntary
missing, and lost children or lost dependent adults. 
   (b) The Attorney General, independent of a request from another
law enforcement agency, may perform the duties imposed under this
title pursuant to the Attorney General's law enforcement powers
established by Section 13 of Article V of the California
Constitution.