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AB-1917 Personal information: contact tracing.(2021-2022)



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SECTION 1.

 Title 1.81.9 (commencing with Section 1798.600) is added to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, immediately following Section 1798.202, to read:

TITLE 1.81.9. Contact Tracing

1798.600.
 As used in this title:
(a) “Contact tracing” means identifying and monitoring individuals, through data collection and analysis, who may have had contact with an infectious person as a means of controlling the spread of a communicable disease.
(b) “Data” means measurements, transactions, determinations, locations, or other information, whether or not that information can be associated with a specific natural person.
(c) “Law enforcement agency” means any of the following:
(1) A police department.
(2) A sheriff’s department.
(3) A district attorney.
(4) A county probation department.
(5) A transit agency police department.
(6) A school district police department.
(7) The police department of any campus of any of the following:
(A) The University of California.
(B) The California State University.
(C) A community college.
(8) The Department of the California Highway Patrol.
(9) The Department of Justice.
(10) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
1798.601.
 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a correctional officer or an officer, deputy, employee, or agent of a law enforcement agency shall not conduct contact tracing.
(b) (1) An employee of a law enforcement agency may conduct contact tracing of employees of the same law enforcement agency.
(2) A health care worker who is not a correctional officer may conduct contact tracing in a jail or prison.
1798.602.
 (a) A person may bring a civil action for a violation of this title to obtain injunctive relief.
(b) A prevailing plaintiff in a civil action brought pursuant to this section shall be awarded reasonable attorney fees.