Section 14204 Of Title 12. Violent Crime Information Center From California Penal Code >> Title 12. >> Part 4.
14204
. (a) The Attorney General shall establish within the center
and shall maintain an online, automated computer system designed to
effect an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing
persons. The Attorney General shall design the computer system, using
any existing system, including the California Law Enforcement
Telecommunications System, to include an active file of information
concerning persons reported to it as missing and who have not been
reported as found. The computer system shall also include a
confidential historic database. The Attorney General shall develop a
system of cataloging missing person reports according to a variety of
characteristics in order to facilitate locating particular
categories of reports as needed.
(b) The Attorney General's active files described in subdivision
(a) shall be made available to law enforcement agencies. The Attorney
General shall provide to these agencies the name and personal
description data of the missing person including, but not limited to,
the person's date of birth, color of eyes and hair, sex, height,
weight, and race, the time and date he or she was reported missing,
the reporting agency, and any other data pertinent to the purpose of
locating missing persons. However, the Attorney General shall not
release the information if the reporting agency requests the Attorney
General in writing not to release the information because it would
impair a criminal investigation.
(c) The Attorney General shall distribute a missing children and
at-risk adults bulletin on a quarterly basis to local law enforcement
agencies, district attorneys, and public schools. The Attorney
General shall also make this information accessible to other parties
involved in efforts to locate missing children and at-risk adults and
to those other persons as the Attorney General deems appropriate.