In City of Gilroy v. Superior Court (Law Foundation of Silicon Valley) , published January 15, 2026, the California Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the lower court of appeal. The plaintiff organization filed a series of public records request with the petitioner city requesting records of cleanups of…
In Kinney v. Corona, published January 24, 2024, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 2 affirmed in part and reversed in part a trial court's decision awarding a California Public Records Act requestor attorney fees. The plaintiff sent a CPRA request to the defendant city, asking it to provide the name of the owner of…
In First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court (Bonta), published December 28, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal, Division 3 granting in part and denying in part a writ petition challenging a trial court’s decision on a California Public Records Act writ proceeding. Penal Code section 832.7(b) makes records relating to peace officers…
In Castanares v. Superior Court (City of Chula Vista), published December 27, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 1 granted in part and denied in part a request for writ relief in a California Public Records Act case. The respondent city's police department was selected as the first in the nation to test the…
In City of Gilroy v. Superior Court (Law Foundation of Silicon Valley), published October 23, 2023, the Sixth District Court of Appeal issued writs directing the trial court to vacate its order in a California Public Records Act proceeding. In 2018, the real party in interest Foundation requested public records from the city concerning homeless encampment sweeps. …
In County of San Benito v. Superior Court (Western Resources Legal Center), published October 10, 2023, the Sixth District Court of Appeal issued a writ partially overturning a trial court discovery order. Real Party in Interest Western Resources requested records about a proposed development that was the subject of a pending land use application. The county…
In Bondgraham v. Superior Court (City of Oakland), published September 25, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal, Division 2 issued a writ directing a trial court to vacate its order allowing redactions to records produced in a California Public Records Act proceeding. Under a previous trial court order, the real party city produced to requesters…
In Edais v. Superior Court (Foucrault), published January 17, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal, Division 3 reversed a decision by a trial court on a writ petition brought under the California Public Records Act. A police officer died in his home, of hanging. The coroner’s office published a report classifying the death…
In Iloh v. Regents of the University of California (The Center for Scientific Integrity, Inc.), published January 13, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 3 affirmed a trial court's decision denying a preliminary injunction to bar production of documents under the California Public Records Act. While the plaintiff was a professor at University of…
In Essick v. County of Sonoma, published June 29, 2022, the First District Court of Appeal, Division 4 affirmed a trial court's denial of a preliminary injunction in a reverse-CPRA case. A county supervisor lodged with the county administrator a harassment complaint against the county sheriff. The county administrator, HR director, and chair of the board…