Pen. Code, § 14209 · Title 12. VIOLENT CRIME INFORMATION CENTER
Pen. Code, § 14209
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The center shall make accessible to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System specific information authorized for dissemination and as determined appropriate by the center that is contained in law enforcement reports regarding missing or unidentified persons. The information shall be accessible in a manner and format approved by the center and shall be used to assist in the search for the missing person or persons. The center shall not permit the transmission or sharing of information, or portions of information, to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System unless the reporting agency, as specified in Section 14211, or the reporting party, with respect to the information submitted to the center, submits authorization to the center to transmit or share that information.
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History
Added by renumbering Section 14201.3 by Stats. 2014, Ch. 437, Sec. 12. (SB 1066) Effective January 1, 2015.
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