BILL NUMBER: SB 731INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Ashburn FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to add Section 1203.83 to the Penal Code, relating to probation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 731, as introduced, Ashburn. Probation. Existing law authorizes the members of multidisciplinary teams engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of juvenile crime to share certain information with each other, as specified. This bill would, in addition, authorize the members of multidisciplinary teams engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of adult crime to share certain information with each other, as specified. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1203.83 is added to the Penal Code, to read: 1203.83. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, members of a multidisciplinary team engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of adult crime, including, but not limited to, criminal street gang activity, may disclose and exchange nonprivileged information and writings to and with one another relating to any incidents of adult crime, including criminal street gang activity, that may also be part of an adult court record or designated as confidential under state law if the member of the team having that information or writing reasonably believes it is generally relevant to the prevention, identification, or control of adult crime or criminal street gang activity. Every member of a multidisciplinary team who receives that information or writings shall be under the same privacy and confidentiality obligations and subject to the same penalties for violating those obligations as the person disclosing or providing the information or writings. The information obtained shall be maintained in a manner which ensures the protection of confidentiality. (b) As used in this section, "nonprivileged information" means any information not subject to a privilege pursuant to Division 8 (commencing with Section 900) of the Evidence Code. (c) As used in this section, "criminal street gang" has the same meaning as defined in Section 186.22 of the Penal Code. (d) As used in this section, "multidisciplinary team" means any team of three or more persons, the members of which are trained in the prevention, identification, and control of adult crime, including, but not limited to, criminal street gang activity, and are qualified to provide a broad range of services related to the problems posed by adult crime and criminal street gangs. The team may include, but is not limited to: (1) Police officers or other law enforcement agents. (2) Prosecutors. (3) Probation officers. (4) Counseling personnel with experience or training in adult crime or criminal street gang control. (5) State, county, city, or special district recreation specialists with experience or training in adult crime or criminal street gang control.