Bill Text: CA SB1263 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1263 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-05 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1263 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB1263-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1263

Introduced by Senator Galgiani

February 21, 2020

An act to amend Section 14203 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1263, as introduced, Galgiani. Crimes.

Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain within the Violent Crime Information 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, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or sexual assault. Existing law requires the Attorney General to make specified files available to the unit, as specified.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 14203 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

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,~~ kidnapping including parental abduction, false imprisonment, or sexual assault. ~~This~~ The 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~~ that could assist local law enforcement agencies. ~~This~~ The 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.