Public Complaint No. 1707853576 - 1646680377

Tyler A Detrinidad

Huntington Beach Police Department

2000 Main Street

Huntington Beach, California 92648

+1 714-960-8811

Date of Offense

September 6, 2023

Complaint

Detention

Statement

Officer De Trinidad called my new employer's office to interrogate me about a crime he said I was accused of and I told him I was not comfortable speaking with him in front of my co-workers at a new job. 2 hours later he sent Newport Beach police to my work to arrest me. I did not commit a crime and there could not have been any evidence of the crime. I was detained in jail for 3 days with no phone call. My dog almost died without his medication and I had to pay $5,000 to bail out. I have had severe PTSD symptoms since this incident and cannot live my life normally anymore.

Location

450 Newport Center Dr # 630, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA

33.6149135, -117.87187

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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