California Penal Code

§ 14024

PEN § 14024 Effective Jan 1, 2008Title 7.5 · Part 4

Statute text

The Attorney General shall coordinate the efforts of state and local agencies to secure witness protection, relocation, and assistance services and then reimburse those state and local agencies for the costs of the services that he or she determines to be necessary to protect a witness from bodily injury, assure the witness’s safe transition into a new environment, and otherwise to assure the health, safety, and welfare of the witness. The Attorney General may reimburse the state or local agencies that provide witnesses with any of the following:

(a)Armed protection or escort by law enforcement officials or security personnel before, during, or subsequent to, legal proceedings.

(b)Physical relocation to an alternate residence.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 455, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008.