Evidence Preservation in California

State statute requires the automatic preservation of biological evidence related to all criminal cases for the length of an individual’s incarceration. Effective: 2000; Amended most recently: 2014.

California’s statute meets the best practices standards outlined by the NIST Technical Working Group on Biological Evidence Preservation.

Read the statute.

 

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