Existing law authorizes judicial notice to be taken of certain matters, including the official acts of state and federal legislative, executive, and judicial departments and the records of any state or federal court. Existing law provides that a certified official record of conviction, or an electronically digitized copy of that record, is admissible to prove, among other things, the act, condition, or event recorded by the record. Existing law defines “electronically digitized copy” as a copy (1) made by scanning, photographing, or otherwise exactly reproducing a document, (2) stored or maintained in a digitized format, and (3) bearing an electronic signature or watermark unique to the entity responsible for certifying the document.

This bill would additionally include as an “electronically digitized copy” a copy that, rather than bearing an electronic signature or watermark unique to the entity certifying the document, was transmitted by a superior court clerk in a manner showing that the copy was prepared and transmitted by that superior court clerk.