California Penal Code CHAPTER 8 - False Imprisonment and Human Trafficking

• Section 236.
  False imprisonment is the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 236.1.
  (a) A person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services, is guilty of human trafficking...
• Section 236.2.
  Law enforcement agencies shall use due diligence to identify all victims of human trafficking, regardless of the citizenship of the person. When a peace officer...
• Section 236.23.
  (a) In addition to any other affirmative defense, it is a defense to a charge of a crime that the person was coerced to commit the...
• Section 236.3.
  Upon conviction of a violation of Section 236.1, if real property is used to facilitate the commission of the offense, the procedures for determining whether...
• Section 236.4.
  (a) Upon the conviction of a person of a violation of Section 236.1, the court may, in addition to any other penalty, fine, or restitution imposed,...
• Section 236.5.
  (a) Within 15 business days of the first encounter with a victim of human trafficking, as defined by Section 236.1, law enforcement agencies shall provide brief...
• Section 236.6.
  (a) To prevent dissipation or secreting of assets or property, the prosecuting agency may, at the same time as or subsequent to the filing of a...
• Section 236.7.
  (a) Any interest in a vehicle, boat, airplane, money, negotiable instruments, securities, real property, or other thing of value that was put to substantial use for...
• Section 236.8.
  (a) If the prosecuting agency, in conjunction with the criminal proceeding, files a petition of forfeiture with the superior court of the county in which the...
• Section 236.9.
  (a) A person claiming an interest in the property, proceeds, or instruments may, at any time within 30 days from the date of the first publication...
• Section 236.10.a.
  (a) Concurrent with or subsequent to the filing of the petition, the prosecuting agency may move the superior court for, and the superior court may issue,...
• Section 236.11.
  (a) If the trier of fact at the forfeiture hearing finds that the alleged property, instruments, or proceeds are forfeitable pursuant to Section 236.7 and the...
• Section 236.12.
  Notwithstanding that no response or claim has been filed pursuant to Section 236.9, in all cases where property is forfeited pursuant to this chapter and,...
• Section 236.13.
  (a) In a case involving a charge of human trafficking under Section 236.1, a minor who is a victim of the human trafficking shall be provided...
• Section 236.14.
  (a) If a person was arrested for or convicted of any nonviolent offense committed while he or she was a victim of human trafficking, including, but...
• Section 237.
  (a) False imprisonment is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one...

Last modified: October 22, 2018