Public Complaint No. 1713391913 - 856764824

Salvador D Luna

Santa Cruz Police Department

155 Center Street

Santa Cruz, California 95060

(831) 420-5800

https://www.cityofs…

Date of Offense

January 28, 2024

Complaint

Personal Violations

Statement

Was falsely accused by security officer at first. While on phone with police, had 3-4 people coming at me aggressively at the time of about 11:30pm-12:00am. The Police activity wasn't very fun ither. He seemed to be upset with how close I was? When in fact was close enough to the out of control security guard. Officer luna asked me to step back, in which I looked down at feet, looked back at him, said, well No. Police officer Luna didn't even step back, just crossed his arms, didn't seemed very nice. After, I believe I just asked for a Supervisor, in which he called for backup 3 officers, but didn't call any Supervisor? He seemed to be very dismissive, interrupted while I was speaking.

Location

Mission St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA

36.9666321, -122.0403203

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.”

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