Public Complaint No. 1726566164 - 956804260

Max Donavon Mcneeley

Apple Valley Unified School District Police Department

12555 Navajo Road

Apple Valley, California 92308

+1 (760) 961-0672

https://www.avusd.o…

Date of Offense

August 14, 2024

Complaint

Verbal Abuse

Statement

He approached my vehicle asked me for ID, Insurance, and registration. I gave him everything it was my first time being pulled over and I didn’t know what to really look for. I found everything and gave it to the officer he went back to his vehicle and then came back with the ticket he gave me, he told me I was getting a ticket for failing to stop at a school bus while it had flashing lights. Then asked me why I passed it and I said honestly I didn’t see any flashing lights and when i looked at it, it looked like a big vehicle so I honestly thought it was just a construction vehicle because there was previously construction on that road. Then he started insulting my intelligence by asking if I even know what a school bus looks like, then went on to tell me to pay more attention.

Location

Navajo Rd, Apple Valley, CA, USA

34.5300781, -117.190508

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.