Rob Bonta

Rob Bonta
Department of Justice
P.O. Box 944255
Sacramento, CA 94244
United States

(916) 210-6276

https://oag.ca.gov

It should be noted that Rob Bonta is not in compliance with, supportive of, or a willing participant in:

the nationwide, public-facing, Brady List;
Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS] Brady doctrine (1963);
United States Freedom of Information Act (1967);
State Sunshine Law (see, below);
Open Government Act (2007) signed by President Bush (No. 43);
Open Government Initiative (2009) signed by President Obama (No. 44); or,
Open Government Directive (2009) issued by the United States Department of Justice.

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.