(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 11105 and subdivision (a) of Section 13305, every public agency or bona fide research body immediately concerned with the prevention or control of crime, the quality of criminal justice, or the custody or correction of offenders may be provided with such criminal offender record information as is required for the performance of its duties, provided that any material identifying individuals is not transferred, revealed, or used for other than research or statistical activities and reports or publications derived therefrom do not identify specific individuals, and provided that such agency or body pays the cost of the processing of such data as determined by the Attorney General.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2020, and, as of January 1, 2021, is repealed.
(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 581, Sec. 5. (AB 1331) Effective January 1, 2020. Inoperative July 1, 2020. Repealed as of January 1, 2021, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 6 of Stats. 2019, Ch. 581.)