The attendance supervisor or his or her designee, a peace officer, a school administrator or his or her designee, or a probation officer may arrest or assume temporary custody, during school hours, of any minor subject to compulsory full-time education or to compulsory continuation education found away from his or her home and who is absent from school without valid excuse within the county, city, or city and county, or school district.
Cal. Educ. Code § 48264
Truants
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case L.A. v. Superior Court (2012)
Most recently applied in People v. R.M. (In re R.M.) (April 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1023, Sec. 3
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.