Bill Text: CA AB490 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Law enforcement agency policies: arrests: positional asphyxia.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 407, Statutes of 2021. [AB490 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB490-Introduced.html
No A person or entity in this state shall not use any a system which that examines or records in any manner
voice prints or other voice stress patterns of another person to determine the truth or falsity of statements made by such the other person without his or her their express written consent given in advance of the examination or recordation.
Bill Title: Law enforcement agency policies: arrests: positional asphyxia.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 407, Statutes of 2021. [AB490 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB490-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 490
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson |
February 08, 2021 |
An act to amend Section 637.3 of the Penal Code, relating to privacy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 490, as introduced, Gipson.
Privacy: recording systems.
Existing law prohibits a person or entity from using a system that examines or records the voice prints or other voice stress patterns of another person to determine the truth or falsity of statements without the express written consent of the person who is being recorded, as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 637.3 of the Penal Code is amended to read:637.3.
(a)(b) This section shall not apply to any a peace officer, as defined in Section 830, while he
the peace officer is carrying out his their official duties.
(c) Any A person who has been injured by a violator of this section may bring an action against the violator for his their actual damages or one thousand dollars ($1,000), whichever is greater.
