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PEN § 637.4
Where this section sits in the code
- Penal Code - PEN
- PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]
- TITLE 15. MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES [626. - 653.75.]
- CHAPTER 1.5. Invasion of Privacy [630. - 638.55.]
(a) No state or local governmental agency involved in the investigation or prosecution of crimes, or any employee thereof, shall require or request any complaining witness, in a case involving the use of force, violence, duress, menace, or threat of great bodily harm in the commission of any sex offense, to submit to a polygraph examination as a prerequisite to filing an accusatory pleading.
(b) Any person who has been injured by a violator of this section may bring an action against the violator for his actual damages or one thousand dollars ($1,000), whichever is greater.
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