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 14200 of the Penal Code is amended to
2read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert The Attorney General shall establish and maintain
4the Violent Crime Information Center to assist in the identification
5and the apprehension of persons responsible for specific violent
P2 1crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of persons,
2particularly children and dependent adults. The center shall
3establish and maintain programs which include, but are not limited
4to, all of the following: developing violent offender profiles;
5assisting local law enforcement agencies and county district
6attorneys by providing investigative information on persons
7responsible for
specific violent crimes and missing person cases;
8providing physical description information and photographs, if
9available, of missing persons to county district attorneys, nonprofit
10missing persons organizations, and schools; and providing statistics
11on missing dependent adults and on missing children, including,
12as may be applicable, family abductions, nonfamily abductions,
13voluntary missing, and lost children or lost dependent adults.
14(b) The Attorney General, independent of a request from another
15law enforcement agency, may perform the duties imposed under
16this title pursuant to the Attorney General’s law enforcement
17powers established by Section 13 of Article V of the California
18Constitution.
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