Ruling could open Calif. legislative records
By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee
California’s open-records section of the constitution does not exclude the Legislature, a Sacramento County judge has ruled, advancing a newspaper group’s lawsuit seeking legislative records.
The Bay Area News Group sued the California Senate and California Legislature last summer, seeking appointment books, calendars, and other records of indicted then-lawmakers Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, and Leland Yee, D-San Francisco.
Senate officials had denied the requests, asserting that the requested records were exempt under the Legislative Open Records Act.
What is interesting to me is that, once again, government seems to think that everything they do is exempt from public scrutiny. This is troubling.