Public Complaint No. 1711514679 - 1267613163

Marisa A Burkdoll

Visalia Police Department

303 South Johnson Street

Visalia, California 93291

(559) 734-8116

https://www.visalia…

Date of Offense

January 22, 2020

Complaint

Statement

Officer Burkdoll and officer Bill Hansen illegally stoped and questioned an individual by the name of Raymond Rubio. Complaint was a person looking into cars, he informed the officers that he was not involved in that. Even if he was, that is not illegal. Mr. Rubio was then asked to take his backpack off and when he asked why Officer Burkdoll and Hansen tackled, beat, and had Officer Hansens K9 bite Mr. Rubio multiple times at the direct order of Officer Hansen. Never once was he told he was under arrest or detained before the officers attacked him. Mr. Rubio’s 4th amendment rights were blatantly and violently violated.

Location

Walnut & Chinowth (W), Visalia, CA 93277, USA

36.312832, -119.336551

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.