Sacramento drivers long accused peace officers of wrongly pulling them over, incorrectly identifying them as gang members. To learn why, Black Lives Matter sought, under the state’s public records law ...

The California Public Records Act, which was signed into law 50 years ago by Gov. Ronald Reagan, says most government records are public. Why is the state Legislature exempt?

But as we’ve found with the California Public Records Act, the biggest problem with the courts’ public records laws is how they’re put into practice. Rule 10.500 of the Rules of Court, for example, is ...

The failure to disclose police records under the new law is also happening among law enforcement agencies in Southern California.

LAist, KQED and CapRadio are among the partner organizations gathering and sharing thousands of documents made public since ...

In Chula Vista, even when public records have been retrieved, reviewed, redacted and released, they almost never remain public.That’s because Chula Vista officials do not publish the vast maj… ...

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has reportedly withheld his full schedule from the media and the public — despite ...

The Police Records Access Project encompasses 12,000 cases over about 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law ...

In theory, it’s simple: The California Public Records Act is intended to make government records — from contracts to calendars — easily accessible to the public. In practice, however, it’s ...

The California Public Records Act, which was signed into law 50 years ago by Gov. Ronald Reagan, says most government records are public. Why is the state Legislature exempt?