California Government Code

§ 12168.7

GOV § 12168.7 Effective Jan 1, 2020Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The Legislature hereby recognizes the need to adopt uniform statewide standards for the purpose of storing and recording public records in electronic media or in a cloud computing storage service.

(b)In order to ensure that uniform statewide standards remain current and relevant, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Department of Technology, shall approve and adopt appropriate uniform statewide standards by using standards that are accredited by the American National Standards Institute or other applicable industry-recognized standards making body, including the International Organization for Standardization TR 15801:2017 or successor standard, for storing and recording public records in electronic media or in a cloud computing storage service.

(c)(1) The standards specified in subdivision (b) shall include a requirement that a trusted system be utilized. For this purpose and for purposes of Sections 25105, 26205, 26205.1, 26205.5, 26907, 27001, 27322.2, 34090.5, and 60203, Section 102235 of the Health and Safety Code, and Section 10851 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, “trusted system” means a combination of technologies, policies, and procedures for which there is no plausible scenario in which a public record retrieved from or reproduced by the system could differ substantially from the public record that is originally stored.

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Legislative history

Repealed (in Sec. 1) and added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 41, Sec. 2. (AB 212) Effective January 1, 2020. Section operative January 1, 2026, by its own provisions.