HomeMy WebLinkAbout90-114 - Destruction of Police RecordsRESOLUTION NO. 90 -114
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH APPROVING DESTRUCTION OF
CERTAIN POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORDS.
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 34090 provides that with the
approval of the City Council by resolution and the written consent
• of the City Attorney, the head of a City Department may destroy any
City record, document, instrument, book or paper, under his charge,
without making a copy after the same is no longer required; and
WHEREAS, the Newport Beach Police Department currently
maintains thousands of. files containing documents ten to twenty
years old; and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that many files contain
documents and information no longer valuable to the Newport Beach
Police Department or of interest to the Department of Justice and
which are no longer required to be maintained pursuant to any other
law or statute.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Newport Beach as follows:
1. Documents meeting the below described criteria may
be destroyed as directed by the Chief of Police, without making a
copy and no longer maintained by the Newport Beach Police
Department:
a. Documents recording misdemeanor arrests ten
years old or older unless such arrest is for a sex crime and
provided that no activity has occurred relative to the arrest
during those years.
b. Documents recording felony arrests that are ten
• years old or older, provided that no activity has occurred during
those years. Felony arrests for sex crimes, homicides and
robberies or other felonies subject to Penal Code Section 799 are
excluded.
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C. Misdemeanor crime reports which are ten years
old or older.
d. Felony crime reports which are ten years old or
older.
e. Stored /impounded vehicle reports that are two
• years old or older.
f. Found property reports that are two years old
or older.
ADOPTED this 13th day of November , 1990
ATT ST:
City Clerk
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