Section 1328.6 Of Chapter 3. Compelling The Attendance Of Witnesses From California Penal Code >> Title 10. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 3.
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. Whenever any criminalist, questioned document examiner,
latent print analyst, polygraph examiner employed by the Department
of Justice, a police department, a sheriff's office, or a district
attorney's office, an intelligence specialist or other technical
specialist employed by the Department of Justice, a custodial officer
employed in a local detention facility, or an employee of the county
welfare department or the department which administers the county
public social services program, is a witness before any court or
magistrate in any criminal action or proceeding in connection with a
matter regarding an event or transaction which he or she has
perceived or investigated in the course of his or her official
duties, where his or her testimony would become a matter of public
record, and where he or she is required to state the place of his or
her residence, he or she need not state the place of his or her
residence, but in lieu thereof, he or she may state his or her
business address, unless the court finds, after an in camera hearing,
that the probative value of the witness's residential address
outweighs the creation of substantial danger to the witness.
Nothing in this section shall abridge or limit a defendant's right
to discover or investigate this information. This section is not
intended to apply to confidential informants.