HOW TO REPORT CHANGES IN ARREST STATUS TO DOJ
Recently, we issued a Client Alert Memo entitled “An Arrest Without the Filing of an Accusatory Pleading is Just a Detention.” In that Memo (Vol.31, No.17), which reported on the Court of Appeal decision in Schmidt v. California Highway Patrol, we quoted the relevant language in Penal Code Section 851.6(d) which requires, among other things, that an arresting agency notify DOJ when changing an arrest to a detention.
The Chief of the Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, Department of Justice, was kind enough to forward the attached information explaining the process and options for reporting disposition information to the DOJ.” Read Disposition Reporting
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