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				<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Castillo</ns0:AuthorText>
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		<ns0:Title> An act to add Section 14217 to the Penal Code, relating to prevention and investigation of crimes.</ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>Department of Justice: online missing person registry.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish an online, automated computer system designed to effect an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons. Existing law requires the online missing persons registry to accept and generate specified information on a missing person. Existing law also requires the Attorney General to establish a separate and confidential historic database relating to missing children and at-risk adults, for statistical and research purposes, as specified.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would require the Attorney General to establish, in consultation with specified groups, agencies, and organizations, an electronic database and support system, as specified, for the public to report and search for missing children, as specified.
			 The bill would require that parents reunified with children be offered free DNA testing to confirm parentage.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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				Section 14217 is added to the 
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				, to read:
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								(a)
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								The Attorney General shall establish, in consultation with nonprofit organizations, homeless shelters, legal aid groups, and government agencies, an electronic database and support system for the public to report and search for missing children, including immigrant children.
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								The electronic database and support system shall do all of the following:
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								(1)
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								Allow parents to register missing children and receive updates on the child’s location.
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								Include anonymous reporting features to encourage participation without fear of immigration enforcement.
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								Ensure firewall protections to prevent unauthorized data sharing.
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								If a missing child is identified, the parents shall be offered free DNA testing in a state-approved laboratory to confirm parentage. The results of a DNA test pursuant to this subdivision shall be used exclusively for reunification purposes.
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								For the purposes of this section, “immigrant” includes a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States, including a person who is undocumented.
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