BILL NUMBER: AB 1899	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook

                        FEBRUARY 7, 2008

   An act to add Section 11112.8 to the Penal Code, relating to crime
prevention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1899, as introduced, Cook. Crime prevention.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Justice shall
maintain a uniform statewide network of equipment and procedures
allowing local law enforcement agencies direct access to the
California Identification System, the automated system maintained by
the Department of Justice for retaining fingerprint files and
identifying latent fingerprints. Existing law requires the department
to develop a master plan recommending the type, number, and location
of equipment necessary to implement the Remote Access Network (RAN),
a uniform statewide network allowing local law enforcement agencies
direct access to the California Identification System. Existing law
provides that within each county or group of counties eligible to
receive funding under the department's master plan for equipment,
that elects to participate in the Remote Access Network, a local RAN
board shall be established that shall determine the placement of RAN
equipment within the county or counties, and coordinate acceptance,
delivery, and installation of RAN equipment.
   This bill would provide that local and regional RAN boards may
manage, at their discretion, additional biometric or other automated
identification systems, including facial recognition, DNA, and iris
scanning, funded from sources outside of those mandated for mobile
and fixed location fingerprint identification.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 11112.8 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   11112.8.  Local and regional RAN boards in California may manage,
at their discretion, additional biometric or other automated
identification systems, including facial recognition, DNA, and iris
scanning, funded from sources outside of those mandated for mobile
and fixed location fingerprint identification.