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 06/26/25 - Amended Assembly
 06/18/25 - Amended Assembly
 05/08/25 - Amended Senate
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 SB-459 Peace officers: confidential communications: exceptions: group peer support services.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/08/2025 10:00 AM

SB459:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Senate Bill

 No. 459

 CHAPTER 456

 An act to amend Sections 8669.3 and 8669.4 of the Government Code, relating to peace officers. 

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 07, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 07, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 459, Grayson.
 Peace officers: confidential communications: exceptions: group peer support services.

Existing law, the Law Enforcement Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Program, authorizes a local or regional law enforcement agency to establish a peer support and crisis referral program to provide an agencywide network of peer representatives available to aid fellow employees on emotional or professional issues. Under existing law, a law enforcement personnel has a right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication, as defined, between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing peer support services, or a confidential communication made to a crisis hotline or crisis referral
 service. Existing law authorizes a confidential communication to be disclosed under specified circumstances, including a criminal proceeding.

This bill would authorize disclosure of a confidential communication in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. The bill would additionally give a law enforcement personnel the right to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between the law enforcement personnel and a peer support team member while the peer support team member was providing group peer support services, as defined, and a confidential communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services while a peer support team member or mental health professional provides group peer support services to those recipients. The bill would expand the definition
 of confidential communication to include the communication between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services, as specified.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 8669.3 of the Government Code is amended to read:

8669.3.

 For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Confidential communication” means any information, including, but not limited to, written or oral communication, transmitted between a law enforcement personnel, a peer support team member, or a crisis hotline or crisis referral service staff member while the peer support team member provides peer support services or the crisis hotline or crisis referral service staff member provides crisis services, or between law enforcement personnel recipients of group peer support services while a peer support team member or mental health professional provides group peer support services to those recipients, and in confidence by a means that,
 as far as the law enforcement personnel is aware, does not disclose the information to third persons other than those who are present to further the interests of the law enforcement personnel in the delivery of peer support services, including group peer support services, or those to whom disclosures are reasonably necessary for the transmission of the information or an accomplishment of the purposes for which the peer support team member is providing services. “Confidential communication” does not include a communication in which the law enforcement personnel discloses the commission of a crime or a communication in which the law enforcement personnel’s intent to defraud or deceive an investigation into a critical incident is revealed.

(b) “Crisis referral services” include all public or private organizations that provide consultation
 and treatment resources for personal problem