{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-637.4","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 637.4","heading":"","body":"(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.\n(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.","path":["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.]"],"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":"81dc2ee74c5b5312292392fe264b91b45ecbe8e837dfb1744d8e09c12a78c8e4","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-637.3","next":"us-ca/pen-637.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}