State Bar of California

180 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States

(415) 538-2000

http://www.calbar.c…

For more than 80 years, the State Bar of California manages the admission of lawyers in California into practice, investigates complaints of professional misconduct, and prescribes appropriate discipline for misconduct. California was one of the first states to unify its bar and make it mandatory, and it is the only state bar that operates its own State Bar Court for professional responsibility cases. With over 242,000 members, it is the largest state bar association in the United States. The State Bar of California is directly responsible to the Supreme Court of California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and has branches in Los Angeles and Sacramento.

Any prosecutor that fails, or refuses, to fully disclose all Brady/Giglio material (exculpatory and impeachment evidence including, but not limited to: records of police misconduct; public complaints; and, use-of-force reports) is subject to Rules of Professional Conduct [R.P.C.] 3.8(g): Special Responsibilities of the Prosecutor. Violation of R.P.C. 3.8(g) may included an individual attorney, while acting in the capacity of prosecutor, being sanctioned up to and including disbarment. The obligations upon the prosecutor are both retroactive and perpetual.

Forsberg, Tiffany	Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1668205792 - 1752106015 April 15, 2015	Cooperative Misconduct, Destruction of Evidence, Failure to Disclose Brady/Giglio Material, Obstruction of Justice, Overcharging, Suborning Perjury, Witness Tampering	Employer: Los Angeles County District Attorney Authority: State Bar of California
Howard, Natasha	Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1675558193 - 1956407797 February 17, 2022	Attorney Misconduct	Employer: California Department of Justice Authority: State Bar of California
Howard, Natasha	Howard, Natasha	Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1671479597 - 1329863530 February 2, 2022	Whistleblower Retaliation	Employer: California Department of Justice Authority: State Bar of California
Iniguez, Joseph	Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1673631046 - 1992858774 November 22, 2022	Attorney Misconduct	Employer: Los Angeles County District Attorney Authority: State Bar of California
Jenkins, Brooke	Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1665766302 - 1298890534	Attorney Misconduct	Employer: San Francisco District Attorney Authority: State Bar of California
Mendoza, Joseph J	Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1668204158 - 574257712 May 9, 2022	Attorney Misconduct	Employer: Kern County District Attorney Authority: State Bar of California
Sanna, Shea	Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1677614110 - 164070654 February 24, 2023	Bias	Employer: Los Angeles County District Attorney Authority: State Bar of California

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.

We the People

We the People have a Right to Know according to the Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS], past Presidents (of both major political parties), Congress, and the United States Department of Justice. As an expression of that Right to Know, we have coordinated valuable information from a number of resources into a single, public-facing, searchable database.

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