California Penal Code

§ 5025

PEN § 5025 Effective Jan 1, 2022Title 7 · Part 3 · Ch. 1

Statute text

(a)Immediately upon the effective date of the amendments to this section made at the 1993–94 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Youth and Community Restoration shall implement and maintain procedures to identify, within 90 days of assuming custody, inmates serving terms in state prison or wards of the Department of Youth and Community Restoration who are undocumented felons subject to deportation. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Youth and Community Restoration shall refer to the United States Department of Homeland Security the name and location of any inmate or ward who may be an undocumented immigrant and who may be subject to deportation for a determination of whether the inmate or ward is undocumented and subject to deportation. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Youth and Community Restoration shall make case files available to the United States Department of Homeland Security for purposes of investigation.

(b)The procedures implemented by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include, but not be limited to, the following criteria for determining the country of citizenship of any person serving a term in the state prison:

(1)Country of citizenship.

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Legislative history

Amended (as amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 91, Sec. 133) by Stats. 2021, Ch. 296, Sec. 49. (AB 1096) Effective January 1, 2022.