Brady Offense No. 1632170631 - 1909979829

Edmund Zorrilla

California Highway Patrol

601 North 7th Street

Sacramento, California 94298

(916) 843-3060

https://www.chp.ca…

Date of Offense

February 25, 2016

Offense(s)

None Provided

Official Statement

In May 2018 CHP launched an investigation into overtime fraud that allegedly occurred between January 1 2016 and March 31 2018. During that period multiple officers in the East Los Angeles station were suspected of recording additional overtime hours when they were assigned to provide protection detail for Caltrans workers through the Maintenance Zone Enhanced Enforcement Program or the Construction Zone Enhanced Enforcement Program. For instance rather than recording the three to four hours actually worked at a detail an officer would allegedly record and receive pay for eight hours of overtime.<br /> See Count 66

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California Public Records Act

§6250-6268

The California Public Records Act is a series of laws meant to guarantee that the public has access to public records of governmental bodies in California. In December of 2011, a Superior Court judge ruled that the California Assembly must also disclose budget records of individual lawmakers, after some California newspapers filed a lawsuit accusing legislators of flouting the state’s open records laws.

Public records in the California Public Records Act are defined as “any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics.” There is a separate category of “purely personal information” that, although it may be in the custody of a government agency, does not fall under the act. Statute 6255 states a catch all exemption, “The agency shall justify withholding any record by demonstrating that the record in question is exempt under express provisions of this chapter or that on the facts of the particular case the public interest served by not disclosing the record clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record.”

Anyone can request public documents in California, and a purpose does not have to be stated. The California Public Records Act does not regulate the use of records obtained from public agencies. One should allow 10 days for an agency to comply with a records request.

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Brady Offense No. 1632170631 - 1909979829

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