Section 11161.9 Of Article 2. Reports Of Injuries From California Penal Code >> Title 1. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 2.
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. (a) A health practitioner who makes a report in accordance
with this article shall not incur civil or criminal liability as a
result of any report required or authorized by this article.
(b) (1) No person required or authorized to report pursuant to
this article, or designated by a person required or authorized to
report pursuant to this article, who takes photographs of a person
suspected of being a person described in this article about whom a
report is required or authorized shall incur any civil or criminal
liability for taking the photographs, causing the photographs to be
taken, or disseminating the photographs to local law enforcement with
the reports required by this article in accordance with this
article. However, this subdivision shall not be deemed to grant
immunity from civil or criminal liability with respect to any other
use of the photographs.
(2) A court may award attorney's fees to a commercial film and
photographic print processor when a suit is brought against the
processor because of a disclosure mandated by this article and the
court finds that the suit is frivolous.
(c) A health practitioner who, pursuant to a request from an adult
protective services agency or a local law enforcement agency,
provides the requesting agency with access to the victim of a known
or suspected instance of abuse shall not incur civil or criminal
liability as a result of providing that access.
(d) No employee shall be discharged, suspended, disciplined, or
harassed for making a report pursuant to this section.
(e) This section does not apply to mandated reporting of child
abuse, as provided for in Article 2.5 (commencing with Section
11164).