6380.5.
(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Wyland’s Law.(b)(1)(A)A superior court shall maintain a record demonstrating it has discharged its obligation pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6380 to transmit information about a protective order to the department.
(B)The record shall include the case number, the name of the court that issued the order, the name of the respondent, the date of issuance of the order, and the date
the superior court transmitted the order.
(C)The record shall not contain a protected party’s personal identifying information.
(b) (1) Upon the oral or written request of a petitioner, respondent, or protected person, or their representative, a superior court that issued a protective order shall, within one business day or, if the request is made on the same day the order is issued, within two business days, make the following information available to the requester:
(A) Information demonstrating when the superior court or its designee transmitted information to the department pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 6380.
(B) Information
demonstrating when the superior court or its designee transmitted information to the department, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 6380, for an order issued pursuant to any of the following:
(i) Section 136.2 of the Penal Code.
(ii) Section 213.5, 304, or 362.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(iii) This division, excluding Section 6271.
(C) Information demonstrating when the superior court or its designee transmitted information to the department, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 6380, or information demonstrating that the court ordered the petitioner or the petitioner’s attorney to deliver a copy of the order to a law enforcement agency for an order issued pursuant to any of the following:
(i) Section 527.6, 527.8, or 527.85 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(ii) Section 15657.03 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code.
(2) If a superior court uses a designee to transmit information about a protective order to the department pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6380, the designee shall confirm with to the superior court court, within one business day, that it transmitted information about the protective order to the department pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6380, and the superior court shall maintain the record
from the designee that the information about the protective order was transmitted to the department.
(c) The department shall maintain a record demonstrating receipt of the information about a protective order transmitted to the department pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 6380.
(d)The superior court that issued a protective order shall make a record it maintains pursuant to subdivision (b) available upon the oral or written request of a petitioner, respondent, or protected person, or their representative, within one business day or, if the request is made on the same day the order is issued, within two business days.
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(d) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, the department may establish, or contract with a vendor to establish, an automated protected person information and notification system to provide a petitioner or protected person in a protective order case with automated access to information maintained in the California Restraining and Protective Order System about their case, including which shall include all of the following:
(1) Whether the department has received a record of the protective order.
(2) If the protective order has been successfully served on the restrained person.
(3) If Notwithstanding any other law, if the restrained person has violated the protective order by attempting to purchase or acquire a firearm or ammunition while the order is in effect.
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(e) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a record demonstrating transmission of information about a protective order that a superior court maintains pursuant to subdivision (b)
whether the superior court has fulfilled its transmission obligations under this section or pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 6380 is required to be open to public inspection and copying.
(2) Notwithstanding any other law, a record demonstrating receipt of information about a protective order that the department maintains pursuant to subdivision (c) is a public record that is not exempt from disclosure in response to a public record request made pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code).
(3) This subdivision applies to a case pending before January 1, 2026, to the extent that information about a protective order is necessary to verify a superior court’s
transmission obligations under this section, section or pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 6380.
(4) Paragraph (2) of this subdivision does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, existing law.
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(f) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Department” means the Department of Justice.
(2)“Personal identifying information” has the same meaning as in subdivision (b) of Section 530.55 of the Penal Code.
(2) “Protective order” includes all order types listed in Section 6380 and the reissuance, extension, modification, or termination of the order.