Section 11105.04 Of Article 3. Criminal Identification And Statistics From California Penal Code >> Title 1. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 3.
11105.04
. (a) A designated Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
program may submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images
and related information of employment and volunteer candidates for
the purpose of obtaining information as to the existence and nature
of any record of child abuse investigations contained in the Child
Abuse Central Index, state- or federal-level convictions, or state-
or federal-level arrests for which the department establishes that
the applicant was released on bail or on his or her own recognizance
pending trial. Requests for federal-level criminal offender record
information received by the department pursuant to this section shall
be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the
department.
(b) When requesting state-level criminal offender record
information pursuant to this section, the designated CASA program
shall request subsequent arrest notification, pursuant to Section
11105.2 of the Penal Code, for all employment and volunteer
candidates.
(c) The department shall respond to the designated CASA program
with information as delineated in subdivision (p) of Section 11105 of
the Penal Code.
(d) The department shall charge a fee sufficient to cover the cost
of processing the requests for state- and federal-level criminal
offender record information.
(e) For purposes of this section, a designated CASA program is a
local court-appointed special advocate program that has adopted and
adheres to the guidelines established by the Judicial Council and
which has been designated by the local presiding juvenile court judge
to recruit, screen, select, train, supervise, and support lay
volunteers to be appointed by the court to help define the best
interests of children in juvenile court dependency and wardship
proceedings. For purposes of this section, there shall be only one
designated CASA program in each California county.
(f) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2004.