BILL NUMBER: AB 810	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Muratsuchi

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act  to add Section 11082 to the Penal Code, 
relating to law enforcement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 810, as amended, Muratsuchi. Law enforcement: data sharing.

   Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state
summary criminal history information, which is the master record of
information complied by the Attorney General pertaining to the
identification and criminal history of any person, such as name, date
of birth, physical description, fingerprints, photographs, dates of
arrests, arresting agencies and booking numbers, charges,
dispositions, and similar data. Existing law requires the Attorney
General to furnish state summary criminal history information to
specified entities, including state courts, peace officers, district
attorneys and public defenders, city attorneys, and probation and
parole officers, among others.  
   This bill would require the Attorney General to examine the
feasibility of an intercounty criminal offender database that would
be accessible to local law enforcement agencies, including municipal
police departments, for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing
local law enforcement operations by ensuring readily available
information on criminal offenders. The bill would require the
Attorney General to consult with specified entities. The bill would
require the Attorney General to report its findings by July 1, 2014,
as provided.  
   Existing law requires all basic information stored in state or
local criminal offender record information systems to be recorded in
a prescribed form. For each arrest made, existing law requires the
reporting agency to report to the Department of Justice concerning
each arrest, the applicable identification and arrest data, and
fingerprints.  
   This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation to ensure that appropriate methods are devised to
allow law enforcement agencies to share data, as specified. 

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 11082 is added to the 
 Penal Code   , to read:  
   11082.  (a) The Attorney General, in consultation with the
California Police Chiefs Association, the California District
Attorneys Association, the California State Sheriffs Association, the
California Peace Officers Association, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department, the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office, the Board of State and
Community Corrections, the Chief Probation Officers of California,
and the League of California Cities, shall examine the feasibility of
an intercounty criminal offender database to be accessible to local
law enforcement agencies, including municipal police departments, for
the purpose of facilitating and enhancing local law enforcement
operations by ensuring readily available information on criminal
offenders.
   (b) The Attorney General shall report the findings of the
examination conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) to the Assembly
Committee on Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Public Safety
by July 1, 2014.
   (c) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under
subdivision (b) is inoperative on July 1, 2018, pursuant to Section
10231.5 of the Government Code.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation to ensure that appropriate methods are devised
to allow law enforcement agencies to share data, including providing
accurate, timely information on ex-offenders from existing databases
within state and county agencies to local law enforcement entities to
facilitate their ability to monitor, and if necessary apprehend,
ex-offenders released into their communities.