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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 ↗Ask about this

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.