{"data":{"id":"us-ca/evid-1284","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"EVID § 1284","heading":"","body":"Evidence of a writing made by the public employee who is the official custodian of the records in a public office, reciting diligent search and failure to find a record, is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered to prove the absence of a record in that office.","path":["Evidence Code - EVID","DIVISION 10. HEARSAY EVIDENCE [1200. - 1390.]","CHAPTER 2. Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule [1220. - 1390.]","ARTICLE 8. Official Records and Other Official Writings [1280. - 1285.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"c1f192837be2a373df704d0d09c4d5f8e9b0aa8501052ca04e2c98385dfc7e37","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/evid-1283","next":"us-ca/evid-1285"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}