Welfare and Institutions Code section 18301

In addition to any other provisions of law concerning the confidentiality of personal information collected by domestic violence shelters, a county shall not require a domestic violence shelter-based program to provide any information not enumerated in Section 18300, or require the disclosure of any information pertaining to the confidential location of a domestic violence shelter-based program or the location or identity of any shelter resident, employee, or volunteer. A county shall not require a method of data collection or recording, or impose any other requirement, that is inconsistent with the federal Violence Against Women Act (18 U.S.C. Sec. 2261 et seq.).

Source: Section 18301, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=18301.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2007; accessed Jun. 9, 2025).

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