Posted September 21, 2017 6:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

California state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, podium, wants to put the staff at the Gun Violence Research Center at UC Davis in touch with data concerning gun violence restraining orders. (Photo: Sen. Pan’s office)
A bill ordering the California Department of Justice to funnel data to the state’s new gun violence research center is in Gov. Jerry Brown’s hands.
The measure, SB 536, which lawmakers sent to the governor’s desk last week, would mandate that DOJ share information on gun violence restraining orders with the Violence Prevention Research program at the University of California. State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, argues the center needs access to the raw data to conduct their research.
“SB 536 will provide data so academic researchers can evaluate the effectiveness of policy interventions to better prevent gun deaths,” Pan said in a statement.
The proposal would make the data on GVRO’s in the state available to University of California researchers or “any other entity that is concerned with the study and prevention of violence,” with the latter determination at the discretion of the DOJ. The orders, which were adopted in 2014, established a framework to deny firearm possession by those believed to be dangerous in the wake of the killing

Source: Guns.com

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