Criminal history records.

Existing law limits the disclosure of an individual's local summary criminal history information, and defines the term "local summary criminal history information" as a master record of information compiled by any local criminal justice agency pertaining to the identification and criminal history of any person, including name, date of birth, dates of arrests, and charges. Under existing law, an employee of a local criminal justice agency who knowingly furnishes a record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized to receive the record or information is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law authorizes a public prosecutor to release local summary criminal history information pursuant to a request under the California Public Records Act under certain conditions, including that the release of information would enhance public safety, the interest of justice, or the public's understanding of the justice system. This bill would provide that a public prosecutor is not prohibited from accessing and obtaining information from the public prosecutor's case management database to respond to a request for publicly disclosable information under the California Public Records Act.