AB 2298, as introduced, Weber. Shared gang databases.
Existing law, the California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (Act), and provides specified punishments for certain crimes committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal street gang, as specified. The act authorizes injunctions against specified gang activity, as provided. The act defines a “shared gang database” as having various attributes, including, among others, that the database contains personal, identifying information in which a person may be designated as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate, or for which entry of a person in the database reflects a designation of that person as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate. Existing law requires a law enforcement agency, before designating a person as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate in the database, to provide a written notice to the person’s parent or guardian, if the person is a minor.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation requiring local law enforcement agencies to provide written notice to an adult before making a gang designation and entering the adult’s personal, identifying information into a shared gang database.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
2legislation requiring local law enforcement agencies to provide
3written notice to an adult before making a gang designation and
4entering the adult’s personal, identifying information into a shared
5gang database.
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