Evidence of a writing made by the public employee who is the official custodian of the records in a public office, reciting diligent search and failure to find a record, is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered to prove the absence of a record in that office.
Cal. Evid. Code § 1284
Official Records and Other Official Writings
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 133 Cal. App. 4th 1185 - Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians v. Superior Court (2005)
Most recently applied in 158 Cal. App. 4th 396 - People v. Abrams (December 2007)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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