Policy Text
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
Policies and Procedures
TITLE:
DESTRUCTION OF PERSONNEL COMPLAINT FILES
NO: J-1620
APPROVED:
Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner
EFFECTIVE:
February 1, 1996
REVIEWED:
06/08/2018
REVISED:
03/01/2007
UPDATED:
06/08/2018
J-1620-1
POLICY
California Penal Code Sections 832.7(a) and 832.8(e) provide that peace officer records
maintained pursuant to Section 832.5 or information obtained from these records, are
confidential and shall not be disclosed in any criminal or civil proceeding, except by discovery
pursuant to Sections 1043 and 1046 of the Evidence Code.
Further, for non-peace officer personnel of a department, personnel records are protected under
Government Code Section 6254(c) and Code of Civil Procedure Sections 1985.4 and 1985.6.
Evidence Code Section 1045(b)(1) excludes from disclosure information consisting of
complaints concerning conduct occurring more than five (5) years before the event or transaction
which is the subject of the lit