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Cal. Penal Code § 832.13
Penal Code of California, section 832.13. Text as published by the California Legislature.
Our reading of the text below: Every person employed as a peace officer must immediately report all uses of force by the officer to the officer’s department or agency. This is Police Census’s own summary, not the Legislature’s wording.
- Location in the code
- CHAPTER 4.5. Peace Officers [830. - 832.18.]
- Path
- PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681. - 1620.] › TITLE 3. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS REGARDING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [777. - 883.] › CHAPTER 4.5. Peace Officers [830. - 832.18.]
- History
- Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 402, Sec. 5. (SB 16) Effective January 1, 2022.
- Effective date
- 2022-01-01
- Source
- pubinfo_2025.zip (California Legislature bulk archive; a very large download)
The “Location in the code” line is not a description. California publishes no caption for a section. That line is the chapter or title the section is filed under, from the Legislature’s table of contents, and says nothing about what the section provides.
The effective date is not necessarily the operative date. A section can be effective on one date and operative on a later one; the history note above is the source’s own statement and is shown exactly as published. This pilot does not determine whether a section is in force on any given day.
Text
Every person employed as a peace officer shall immediately report all uses of force by the officer to the officer’s department or agency.
Reproduced from the California Legislature’s published archive (pubinfo_2025.zip). This is a scoped pilot of Penal Code sections chosen for policing relevance, not a mirror of the code. All California sections.