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California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 8257.2

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of designing, collecting data for, and approving the assessment described in Section 8257.1, a state agency that has a member on the executive council shall, within 60 days of a request for data pertaining to that state agency, provide to the council staff, or the entity conducting the assessment, the requested data, including, but not limited to, the number or rate of persons exiting state-funded institutional settings into homelessness.  State agencies shall be granted reasonable extensions beyond 60 days as necessary to produce high quality data.  The state department or agency shall remove any personally identifying data provided pursuant to this subdivision, if any.

(b) The council staff shall provide the local data collected pursuant to Section 8257.1 to the respective administering state agencies overseeing those programs within 45 days of receipt.

(1) The council staff and the state agency receiving data pursuant to this subdivision shall work in collaboration to determine the format and timing of delivery of local data collected to comply with data security and privacy practices and availability of staff to execute requests.

(2) When feasible, the council staff shall notify the state agency receiving data pursuant to this subdivision at least seven days prior to sharing or publicly using or referencing the data, including, but not limited to, using the data for any substantive analysis summary statistics, or other findings.

(c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Personally identifying information” has the same meaning as that in Section 1798.79.8 of the Civil Code.

(2) “State-funded institutional settings” include, but are not limited to, justice, juvenile justice, child welfare, and health care settings.

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