Public Complaint No. 1707854136 - 1806637954

Sean Paul Mccollom

Huntington Beach Police Department

2000 Main Street

Huntington Beach, California 92648

+1 714-960-8811

Date of Offense

November 9, 2023

Complaint

First Amendment

Statement

Officer McCollom started tracking my cell phone after I reached out to Officer Tyler De Trinidad to let him know I was going to report him to the Attorney General of California. He stalked me on my way home one day and pulled me over. He told me I was a suspect in a crime and forced me to get out of my vehicle even though I told him I did not want to speak to him without a lawyer present. He took my phone and continued to interrogate me for 10 min. He had 5 other Orange County officers follow him to Riverside County where I live to do this. I still do not know what he accused me of doing.

Location

Indian Wells, CA, USA

33.717631, -116.3407549

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.