Public Complaint No. 1746389847 - 157157656

Michael Yingling

Weed Police Department

550 Main Street

Weed, California 96094

+1 530-938-5000

https://www.ci.weed…

Date of Offense

March 3, 2025

Complaint

Statement

Officer Yingling pulled me over for my "license plate not being reflective" which i have photographic evidence taken the next night showing that is it and was reflective. He almost immediately switch to a drug investigation pulling me out of vehicle for a k9 sniff with no probable cause to do so. He then pulled me over 2 nights in a row on 04/04/2025 and 04/03/2025 for the same thing and pulled me out of vehicle again and stated "case law says i can pull you out of the car for any reason I see fit" which i know is not true officer safety yes but they can't just pull you out arbitrarily as he states.

Location

55 N Weed Blvd Suite A Weed, CA 96094

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.