CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Writings
......Official Records
.........Requirements
............Indicia of Trustworthiness
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Probation report trustworthy as official record hearsay exception as D's stmts promptly recorded and he had chance at hearing to correct any errors in report.

Source of information and method and time of preparation must indicate trustworthiness of official report.

Writing must be made at or near time of act, condition or event.

Official report based solely upon hearsay inadmissible.