Rule 1285 Within an official written report or record of a law enforcement officer regarding a sexual offense that resulted in a person’s conviction, the follow…

When someone is convicted of a sexual offense and there is a civil hearing to decide if they should be committed as a sexually violent predator, certain statements written in police reports can be used as evidence.

Normally, written statements in police reports are considered "hearsay" and cannot be used to prove something is true. This rule creates an exception. At that specific type of civil hearing, three kinds of statements from police reports are allowed: statements from the victim, statements from anyone who witnessed the offense, and statements from a medical examiner who examined the victim.

This only applies to the specific civil hearing mentioned in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6602, which deals with deciding whether a convicted sex offender should be held as a sexually violent predator after finishing their prison sentence.