Section 11105.07 Of Article 3. Criminal Identification And Statistics From California Penal Code >> Title 1. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 3.
11105.07
. (a) An animal control officer, when necessary for
performing his or her official duties, shall provide a compelling
reason to an appropriate criminal justice agency to obtain state
summary criminal history information.
(b) Upon a showing of compelling need, the criminal justice agency
shall respond to the animal control officer with state summary
criminal history information obtained through the California Law
Enforcement Telecommunications Systems (CLETS). The criminal justice
agency shall provide this information to the animal control officer
in a timely manner. A criminal justice agency may charge a reasonable
fee sufficient to cover the costs of providing information pursuant
to this subdivision.
(c) An animal control officer who receives state summary criminal
history information pursuant to this section shall not use that
information for any purpose other than for the performance of his or
her official duties.
(d) A law enforcement officer or other person authorized by law to
provide or receive information obtained through CLETS pursuant to
this section who knowingly furnishes the record or information to a
person who is not authorized by law to receive that information is
guilty of violating Section 11142.
(e) For the purposes of this section, an animal control officer is
a person authorized to exercise the powers specified in Section
830.9.