Authorizing a criminal or juvenile justice agency to redisseminate driver’s license photos in missing persons cases, and including effective date provisions

Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is prohibited from releasing personal information that is in the form of a person’s photograph or digital image or a digital reproduction of a person’s photograph. However, the DOT is authorized to share such information with an officer or employee of a law enforcement agency, an employee of a federal or state agency or political subdivision in the performance of the employee’s official duties, a contract employee of the department of inspections and appeals in the conduct of an investigation, or a licensed private investigation agency or a licensed security service, regardless of whether a person has provided express written consent to disclosure of the information. Also under current law, a criminal or juvenile justice agency is authorized to redisseminate arrest data, and the name, photograph, physical description, and other identifying information, concerning a person who is wanted or being sought if a warrant for the arrest of that person has been issued. This bill authorizes a criminal or juvenile justice agency to redisseminate personal information that is in the form of a person’s photograph or digital image or a digital reproduction of a person’s photograph obtained from the DOT pursuant to current law of (1) a missing person or (2) a person identified in a missing person report involving an unemancipated minor where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the person is involved with the minor’s disappearance.