California Penal Code

§ 13510.6

PEN § 13510.6 Effective Jan 1, 2024Title 4 · Part 4 · Ch. 1 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The commission shall establish a definition of “biased conduct” that, at a minimum, includes all of the following:

(1)Biased conduct includes any conduct, including, but not limited to, conduct online, such as social media use, engaged in by a peace officer in any encounter with the public, first responders, or employees of criminal justice agencies, as defined in Section 13101, motivated by bias toward any person’s protected class or characteristic, whether actual or perceived, that is described in subdivision (b) of Section 51 of the Civil Code.

(2)Biased conduct may result from implicit and explicit biases.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 439, Sec. 1. (AB 443) Effective January 1, 2024. Operative January 1, 2026, by its own provisions.