California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 784

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon any adjudication that a minor violated any provision of law for which a report would be required under Section 1803 of the Vehicle Code, including any determination that because of the act the minor is a person described in Section 601 or 602 or that a program of supervision should be instituted for the minor, the clerk shall, not more than 30 days after the violation and in no case later than 10 days after the adjudication, prepare an abstract of the record, certify the abstract to be true and correct, and immediately forward the abstract to the Department of Motor Vehicles.  The record shall be a public record subject to disclosure in the same manner as reports made under Section 1803 of the Vehicle Code.