§ 11572 Complaint Verification Requirement

• •If you want to file a complaint in court, you usually have to swear it's true.
• •But if the district attorney or a city attorney files it, they don’t have to do this extra step.
• •This rule was updated in 1987 to make sure complaints are serious.

Your neighbor keeps playing loud music at night, and you want to take them to court.

If you file the complaint yourself, you have to sign a paper saying everything you wrote is true. But if the city attorney files it for you, they don’t need to do that.