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

The California Supreme Court declined to review the Chula Vista drone footage case, affirming a requirement for case-by-case review.

The California Supreme Court has declined to take up the latest appeal by the city of Chula Vista over the long-running ...

The Police Records Access Project database, now available to the public, contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases in California.

The state's public records law is "completely anachronistic," said one Northern California county counsel.

The launch of the database comes after journalists spent years using the California Public Records Act to request files under a pair of landmark police transparency laws: Senate Bill 1421, which ...

Search California public records about law enforcement use of force and misconduct from more than 700 agencies. Results are organized into cases attributed to the agency providing the records ...

The failure of Grossmont officials to provide these records underscores some of the limits of California’s public record law — and raises issues now being litigated before the state’s top ...

The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California, accuses Councilmember Chris Bausch of violating California Public Records Act by refusing to turn over messages from his private devices.

Cities in San Luis Obispo County, California, have varying policies for managing public records on personal devices, some strict and other almost nonexistent.

The city has accused Chris Bausch of willfully violating the state’s Public Records Act.

State lawmakers approved a bill that would ban online pet dealer websites and shadowy middlemen who pose as local breeders ...