Children's advocacy centers: recordings.
Summary
Existing law authorizes a county to use a children's advocacy center to implement a coordinated multidisciplinary response to investigate reports involving child physical or sexual abuse, exploitation, or maltreatment. Existing law requires a county that utilizes a child advocacy center to meet specified standards, including, among other things, that the children's advocacy center must verify that interviews conducted in the course of investigations are conducted in a forensically sound manner and occur in a child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and dedicated place for children and families. Existing law requires the children's advocacy center or other identified multidisciplinary team member custodian to ensure that all recordings of child forensic interviews be released only in response to a court order, or, upon request, to law enforcement agencies authorized to investigate child abuse or agencies authorized to prosecute juvenile or criminal conduct described in the forensic interview, or to county counsel evaluating an allegation of child abuse. Existing law requires files, reports, records, communications, and working papers used or developed in providing services through a children's advocacy center to be confidential and not public records. Existing law authorizes the members of a multidisciplinary team associated with a children's advocacy center to share with other multidisciplinary team members any information or records concerning the child and family and the person who is the subject of the investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect for the sole purpose of facilitating a forensic interview, case discussion, or providing services to the child or family, as specified. This bill would additionally authorize the members of a multidisciplinary team associated with a children's advocacy center to share with child welfare agencies authorized to investigate child abuse and neglect any information or records, as specified, for the purposes mentioned above.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2026
Committee Review
Jun 2026
Senate Passage
May 2026
Assembly Passage
Jun 2026
Signed into Law
Jun 2026
Introduced Feb 18, 2026
Signed Jun 30, 2026
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Floor votes · Senate May 18, 2026 · Assembly Jun 16, 2026
How they voted
38–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 40
May 18, 2026
D
Democratic30
96% Yea
R
Republican10
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
8
Committee
5
Amendments
1
Jun 30, 2026
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
legislature
Jun 16, 2026
Assembly · Passed
Assembly Vote: pass (76-0-2)
assembly
Jun 16, 2026
Upper · Passed
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
upper
Jun 15, 2026
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5707.) Ordered to the Senate.
lower
Jun 9, 2026
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 9).
lower
May 26, 2026
Committee
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
lower
May 18, 2026
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4304.) Ordered to the Assembly.
upper
Apr 14, 2026
Upper · Passed
Read third time and amended.
upper
Mar 24, 2026
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3661.) (March 24).
upper
Feb 26, 2026
Committee
Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
upper
Feb 18, 2026
Introduced
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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