California Education Code

§ 35400

EDC § 35400 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 21 · Ch. 2 · Art. 16

Statute text

(a)The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Inspector General of the Office of the Inspector General may conduct audits and investigations. The inspector general may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths or affirmations, take testimony, and compel the production of all information, documents, reports, answers, records, accounts, papers, and other data and documentary evidence deemed material and relevant and that reasonably relate to the inquiry or investigation undertaken by the inspector general when the inspector general has a reasonable suspicion that a law, regulation, rule, or school district policy has been violated or is being violated. For purposes of this section, “reasonable suspicion” means that the circumstances known or apparent to the inspector general include specific and articulable facts causing the inspector general to suspect that a material violation of law, regulation, rule, or school district policy has occurred or is occurring, and that the facts would cause a reasonable officer in a like position to suspect that a material violation of a law, regulation, rule, or school district policy has occurred or is occurring.

(b)Subpoenas shall be served in the manner provided by law for service of summons. A subpoena issued pursuant to this section may be subject to challenge pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1985) of Title 3 of Part 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

(c)For purposes of this section, Sections 11184, 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, and 11191 of the Government Code shall apply to the subpoenaing of witnesses and documents, reports, answers, records, accounts, papers, and other data and documentary evidence as if the investigation was being conducted by a state department head, except that the applicable court for resolving motions to compel or motions to quash shall be the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 871, Sec. 1. (SB 991) Effective January 1, 2025.