CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege
.........Exceptions
............CANRA
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Plaintiffs asserted a cognizable privacy interest under the CA Const. such that their complaint, challenging CANRA's statutory mandate requiring reporting of patients who admitted to viewing child pornography, survived demurrer.

Child pornography reporting requirements take precedence over psychotherapist-patient privilege.

No error in ruling DA could introduce, for impeachment purposes, stmts D made to nurse, which she reported under CANRA, because such stmts are not covered by the psychotherapist-patient privilege, constituting an exception.