California housing & land-use law
California 2 CCR § 12264. Definitions.
Title 2, California Code of Regulations (fair housing), as enacted — this section's verbatim text. The library holds selected sections of this code, not the whole code.
- Edition
- 2026-09-25 source snapshot
- Effective
- 2020-01-01
- Last updated
- 2026-09-25
- Jurisdiction
- California
§ 12264¶
“Criminal history information” means any record that contains individually identifiable information and describes any aspect of an individual's criminal history or contacts with any law enforcement agency. It includes information describing an individual's arrests and subsequent dispositions; information that an individual has been charged with or indicted for a felony, misdemeanor, or other criminal offense; and information indicating that an individual has been questioned, apprehended, taken into custody or detained, or held for investigation by a law enforcement, police, military, or prosecutorial agency, whether or not the contact with law enforcement led to a criminal conviction. Criminal history information includes both records from any jurisdiction and records that are not prepared strictly for law enforcement purposes, such as investigative consumer reports.
Note: Authority cited: Section 12935(a), Government Code. Reference: Sections 12920, 12921, 12927, 12955 and 12955.8, Government Code.
- New article 24 (sections 12264-12271) and section filed 9-16-2019; operative 1-1-2020 (Register 2019, No. 38).
Official source: California 2 CCR § 12264. Definitions..
Source snapshot retrieved: 2026-09-25T21:51:00.426323+00:00.
Publisher currency statement: This database is current through 9/11/26 Register 2026, No. 37.
Version dates (indexing metadata): Effective 2020-01-01; operative 2020-01-01.
Effective-date evidence (external official source, indexing metadata): This regulatory action becomes effective on 1/1/2020.
Evidence source: https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2019/09/NtcApproval-FairHousingRegulations.pdf
Applicability note (indexing metadata, not regulatory text): Review the applicable definitions, burdens of proof, exemptions, exceptions, causation, notice and procedural conditions in the source subsections. A screening criterion, housing advertisement, criminal record or land-use decision cannot be evaluated from dates alone. Read the regulations together with current state and federal statutes and any applicable local protections. This indexed version does not establish the text before its reviewed amendment date.