Existing law requires each county to develop a procedure for electronically transmitting, upon the issuance of certain types of protective orders, the contents of the order and other specified information to the Department of Justice (department) through the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. Existing law also requires the department to maintain a California Restraining and Protective Order System and to make specified information electronically available to court clerks and law enforcement personnel.
This bill, Wyland's Law, would require a superior court to maintain a record demonstrating that it has discharged its obligation to transmit information about a protective order to the department and would require the department to maintain a record demonstrating its receipt of the information transmitted about a protective order, as specified. The bill would require the superior court to make those records available to a petitioner, respondent, or protected person, or their representative, within one business day upon an oral or written request. The bill would authorize the department to establish, or contract with a vendor to establish, an automated protected person information and notification system to provide a petitioner or a protected person in a protective order case with automated access to information about their case, as specified. The bill would require a record demonstrating transmission of information about a protective order that a superior court is required to maintain or a record demonstrating receipt of information about a protective order that the department is required to maintain to be open to public inspection and copying. The bill would make these provisions apply to a case pending before January 1, 2026, to the extent information about a protective order is necessary to verify a superior court's specified transmission obligations.

Statutes affected:
AB 1363: 18170 PEN
02/21/25 - Introduced: 18170 PEN
03/28/25 - Amended Assembly: 18170 PEN