LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1022, as amended, Nava. Missing children.
Existing law provides that the Attorney General shall establish
and maintain the Violent Crime Information Center to assist in the
identification and the apprehension of persons responsible for
specific violent crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of
persons, particularly children and dependent adults. Existing law
provides that the Attorney General shall establish the Missing and
Exploited Children's Recovery Network which shall consist of an
automated computerized system that shall have the capability to
electronically transmit information pertaining to missing children to
all state and local law enforcement agencies, as specified.
This bill would establish provide that
within the Department of Justice there shall be a
director position responsible for
coordinating California's response to missing persons. The bill would
establish this position for the purposes of assisting law
enforcement agencies with the timely search and recovery of at-risk
abducted children, maintaining up-to-date knowledge and expertise of
those protocols, best practices, and technologies that are most
effective for recovering missing children, maintaining relationships
with law enforcement agencies and other entities responsible for the
investigation of missing persons, and providing oversight
and maintenance of the state's Child Abduction First Responder List
maintaining records, and making the Commission on
Peace Officer Standards Training Guidelines for Handling Missing
Persons Investigations document available to law enforcement agencies
upon request .

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Comments/questions on AB 1022 (Cook and Nava): Missing children.