Plain English Breakdown
The effective date is listed as empty in the metadata, though the bill was chaptered on October 13, 2025.
Law Enforcement Settlement Agreements
This law makes settlement agreements between police agencies and officers public if they require hiding or destroying records about misconduct investigations.
What This Bill Does
- Adds a new exception to the rule that keeps peace officer personnel files private from the public for certain settlement agreements.
- Exempts from confidentiality any agreement between an agency and an officer that requires destroying, removing, or concealing a record of a misconduct investigation.
- Updates Section 832.7 of the Penal Code with changes proposed by other bills if this bill passes last among them.
- States that parts of the law can stand alone if one part is removed later.
Who It Names or Affects
- Peace officers and custodial officers in California
- Law enforcement agencies that employ these officers
Limits and Unknowns
- The changes to Section 832.7 only take effect if this bill is enacted after AB 847 or AB 1178.
- The official text does not list specific penalties for agencies that break this new rule.