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A standing order of JoAnn M. Bicego, Presiding Judge, dated November 28, 2023, governing the use and disclosure of the Mobile Audio Video Recording System (MVARS) produced in discovery in all criminal cases: the MVARS not used in any proceeding other than the criminal case involved nor disseminated, except by further order; not inputted into any computer program or database or listed as it pertains to law enforcement personnel; disclosure limited to the parties and counsel, staff employed by counsel, the court, retained experts or consultants, and investigators; defense counsel not providing to the defendant the address or telephone number of complainants or witnesses identified within the MVARS; counsel advising each individual of the order and obtaining consent to be bound before any disclosure; no reference to the MVARS in any other court proceeding; all originals and copies returned to the Custodian of Records of the providing law enforcement agency within ten (10) days after the final termination of the case or the expiration of the preservation period; and the order surviving the final termination of the case.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SISKIYOU STANDING ORDER REGARDING THE DISCOVERY AND PRODUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT MOBILE AUDIO-VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEMS (MVARS) The following orders shall govern the use and disclosure of the Mobile Audio Video Recording System (MVARS) produced in accordance with Discovery disclosure under the laws of California in all criminal cases within the jurisdiction of Siskiyou County. References in this order to individual MVARS apply to the specific criminal case for which the discovery is produced. To allow the District Attorney’s Office to disseminate this type of discovery to defense counsel as efficiently as possible, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, as follows: 1. Under no circumstances shall the MVARS be used in any proceeding other than the criminal case involved or be disseminated, in any form, except by further order of this court. 2. Under no circumstances shall the MVARS, either orally or by written form, be inputted into any computer program or database or listed manually in any manual, notebook or other listing as it pertains to law enforcement personnel. This does not apply to any computer program or case file maintained specifically as to the involved criminal case. 3. Disclosure of the MVARS shall be limited to the personnel and/or classification of persons listed below: a. The parties and Counsel for parties to the involved criminal case; b. Staff personnel employed by counsel for any party; c. The court and its personnel in connection with the involved criminal case; d. Experts or consultants retained to work on the involved criminal case by counsel for any party to the involved criminal case; and e. Investigators retained by counsel for any party to the involved criminal case. 4. Defense counsel shall not provide to the defendant, either orally or in writing, the address or telephone number of persons (complainants or witnesses) identified within the MVARS, but may discuss the information obtained from any investigation conducted with the persons identified within the MVARS. 5. Counsel for any party to an action where such discovery is involved, shall advise any individuals to whom disclosure of MVARS is to be made of the contents of this ORDER, and such counsel shall obtain the consent of such individuals that he or she will be bound by this ORDER. In the event such individual does not consent to be bound by this ORDER, no disclosure of the MVARS or the contents of the MVARS shall be made to such individual. 6. Any parties, counsel, expert, consultant or investigator retained by counsel for any party to the involved criminal case shall not refer to the MVARS in any other court proceeding subject to further order of this court. 7. Except for documentation filed under seal by this court, all originals and copies of the MVARS shall be returned to the Custodian of Records for the law enforcement agency that provided the MVARS by all persons in receipt of the MVARS within ten (10) days after: a. Final termination of the involved criminal case, whether such termination occurs by plea, settlement, judgment, dismissal, appeal, or as otherwise required; and/or b. Expiration of the preservation period required by attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of California. 8. This ORDER and the obligations of all persons subject to it, including those relating to the disclosure and use of the MVARS shall survive the final termination of the involved criminal case, whether such termination is by settlement, judgment, dismissal, appeal or otherwise, until further order of this court. 9. Nothing in this ORDER is intended to prevent authorized individuals from having access to the MVARS to which they would have had access in the normal course of their duties. IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: November 28, 2023 JoAnn M. Bicego, Presiding Judge Siskiyou County Superior Court
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SISKIYOU STANDING ORDER REGARDING THE DISCOVERY AND PRODUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT MOBILE AUDIO-VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEMS (MVARS) The following orders shall govern the use and disclosure of the Mobile Audio Video Recording System (MVARS) produced in accordance with Discovery disclosure under the laws of California in all criminal cases within the jurisdiction of
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-12 (California T4 Siskiyou build 2026-10-12) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-siskiyou/docs/general/discovery-production-law-enforcement-mvars.pdf (721878 bytes, sha256 6929020baab41a71eb077bb5511d17554adfea34df45aff4e9b81853187f1918; 3 pages; scanned page images with an invisible OCR text layer): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi; checked against RapidOCR on the pages and the file's own scanner OCR layer, never published: every 6-word window looked up, and of the 2 spans no reading holds, 1 split into pieces a reading holds (“counsel” on the page's right rule) and 1 read again on the page image (the signature block the signature crosses) (vision/check-log.txt). Not part of the text: the pleading line numbers, the page numbers and the signature; the title's “AUDIO-” / “VIDEO” kept as the compound it is. The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published.
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