Official record of conviction: admissibility of electronically digitized copy.

Existing law provides that evidence of a writing made as a record of an act, condition, or event is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered in any civil or criminal proceeding to prove the act, condition, or event if specified conditions apply. Existing law provides that an official record of conviction certified under a specified statute is admissible under this hearsay exception to prove the commission, attempted commission, or solicitation of a criminal offense, prior conviction, service of a prison term, or other act, condition, or event recorded by the record. This bill would provide that an electronically digitized copy, as defined, of an official record of conviction is also admissible under this hearsay exception for the same purposes as the official record.