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An act to amend Section 69842 of the Government Code, relating to courts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

Existing law requires a clerk of the superior court to keep an index of any action or proceeding filed in the court. Existing law requires a separate index for plaintiffs and defendants in civil actions and for defendants in criminal actions.
This bill would require publicly accessible electronic indices of criminal cases to allow searches based on an individual’s driver’s license, date of birth, or name. The bill would require the court index to only return records that match the identifiers entered, and would require that those results be redacted, as specified.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.
Section 69842 of the Government Code is amended to read:
69842.
(a) (1) The clerk of the superior court shall keep an index to ensure ready reference to any action or proceeding filed in the court. There shall be separate indices of plaintiffs and defendants in civil actions and of defendants in criminal actions. The name of each plaintiff and defendant shall be indexed and there shall appear opposite each name indexed the number of the action or proceeding and the name or names of the adverse litigant or litigants.
(2) Publicly accessible electronic indices of criminal cases shall allow searching the court’s electronic index by entering an individual’s name, date of birth, driver’s license, or any combination thereof. In return, the court index shall only provide records that match the identifiers entered. The results shall include the date of birth and driver’s license redacted and only indicate whether there is a match for the data entered.
(3) All uses of court indices shall comply with the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.).
(b) A person authorized to receive public information pursuant to this section shall not be considered to have received local summary criminal history information as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 13300 of the Penal Code.