BILL NUMBER: AB 2383AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2012 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Ammiano FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to amend Section 1810.5 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2383, as amended, Ammiano. Vehicles: public records: access by certain officials. Existing law requires that the Attorney General, district attorneys, law enforcement agencies, city attorneys prosecuting specified misdemeanor actions, public defenders, and public defender investigators have access, including, but not limited to, telephone access, to specified records of the Department of Motor Vehicles. This bill would additionally require that a city attorney of a city and county and his or her investigators have access to those records of the department. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1810.5 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: 1810.5. The Attorney General, district attorneys, law enforcement agencies, city attorneys prosecuting misdemeanor actions under Section 41803.5 of the Government Code, a city attorney of a city and county and his or her investigators , public defenders, and public defender investigators shall have access, including, but not limited to, telephone access, to the records of the department. For purposes of obtaining a governmental entity requester code from the department, the office of a city attorney engaged in the prosecution of criminal actions and a city attorney of a city and county shall be deemed a law enforcement entity.