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Penal Code § 135.5

CHAPTER 6. Falsifying Evidence, and Bribing, Influencing, Intimidating or Threatening Witnesses

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 135.5Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 759, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.

Any person who knowingly alters, tampers with, conceals, or destroys relevant evidence in any disciplinary proceeding against a public safety officer, for the purpose of harming that public safety officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor.