BILL NUMBER: SB 914	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leno

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act relating to interrogation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 914, as introduced, Leno. Interrogation: electronic
recordation.
   Existing law provides that under specified conditions the
statements of witnesses, victims, or perpetrators of specified crimes
may be recorded and preserved by means of videotape.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to later amend
into this bill provisions that would require the interrogation of
individuals that are suspected of homicide or violent felonies to be
recorded.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to later amend into
this bill provisions that would require the electronic recordation
of the entire proceedings of any custodial interrogation of an
individual who is in a fixed place of detention and who, at the time
of the interrogation, is suspected of committing or accused of a
homicide or a violent felony.