California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

  • Section 6250.
    In enacting this chapter, the Legislature, mindful of the right of individuals to privacy, finds and declares that access to information concerning the conduct of...
  • Section 6251.
    This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Public Records Act.(Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 1473.)
  • Section 6252.
    As used in this chapter:(a) “Local agency” includes a county; city, whether general law or chartered; city and county; school district; municipal corporation; district; political subdivision;...
  • Section 6252.5.
    Notwithstanding the definition of “member of the public” in Section 6252, an elected member or officer of any state or local agency is entitled to...
  • Section 6252.6.
    Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 827 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, after the death of a foster child who is a...
  • Section 6252.7.
    Notwithstanding Section 6252.5 or any other provision of law, when the members of a legislative body of a local agency are authorized to access a...
  • Section 6253.
    (a) Public records are open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency and every person has a right...
  • Section 6253.1.
    (a) When a member of the public requests to inspect a public record or obtain a copy of a public record, the public agency, in order...
  • Section 6253.2.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, information regarding persons paid by the state to provide in-home supportive services pursuant to Article...
  • Section 6253.3.
    A state or local agency may not allow another party to control the disclosure of information that is otherwise subject to disclosure pursuant to this...
  • Section 6253.31.
    Notwithstanding any contract term to the contrary, a contract entered into by a state or local agency subject to this chapter, including the University of...
  • Section 6253.4.
    (a) Every agency may adopt regulations stating the procedures to be followed when making its records available in accordance with this section.The following state and local...
  • Section 6253.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 6252 and 6253, statewide, county, city, and district initiative, referendum, and recall petitions, petitions circulated pursuant to Section 5091 of the Education Code,...
  • Section 6253.6.
    (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 6252 and 6253, information compiled by public officers or public employees revealing the identity of persons who have requested bilingual...
  • Section 6253.8.
    (a) Every final enforcement order issued by an agency listed in subdivision (b) under any provision of law that is administered by an entity listed in...
  • Section 6253.9.
    (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, any agency that has information that constitutes an identifiable public record not exempt from disclosure pursuant to this chapter that...
  • Section 6253.10.a.
    If a local agency, except a school district, maintains an Internet Resource, including, but not limited to, an Internet Web site, Internet Web page, or...
  • Section 6254.
    Except as provided in Sections 6254.7 and 6254.13, this chapter does not require the disclosure of any of the following records:(a) Preliminary drafts, notes, or interagency...
  • Section 6254.1.
    (a) Except as provided in Section 6254.7, nothing in this chapter requires disclosure of records that are the residence address of any person contained in the...
  • Section 6254.2.
    (a) Nothing in this chapter exempts from public disclosure the same categories of pesticide safety and efficacy information that are disclosable under paragraph (1) of subsection...
  • Section 6254.3.
    (a) The home addresses, home telephone numbers, personal cellular telephone numbers, and birth dates of all employees of a public agency shall not be deemed to...
  • Section 6254.4.
    (a) The home address, telephone number, email address, precinct number, or other number specified by the Secretary of State for voter registration purposes, and prior registration...
  • Section 6254.4.5.
    (a)  This chapter does not require disclosure of a video or audio recording that was created during the commission or investigation of the crime of...
  • Section 6254.5.
    Notwithstanding any other law, if a state or local agency discloses a public record that is otherwise exempt from this chapter, to a member of...
  • Section 6254.6.
    Whenever a city and county or a joint powers agency, pursuant to a mandatory statute or charter provision to collect private industry wage data for...
  • Section 6254.7.
    (a) All information, analyses, plans, or specifications that disclose the nature, extent, quantity, or degree of air contaminants or other pollution which any article, machine, equipment,...
  • Section 6254.8.
    Every employment contract between a state or local agency and any public official or public employee is a public record which is not subject to...
  • Section 6254.9.
    (a) Computer software developed by a state or local agency is not itself a public record under this chapter. The agency may sell, lease, or license...
  • Section 6254.10.a.
    Nothing in this chapter requires disclosure of records that relate to archaeological site information and reports maintained by, or in the possession of, the Department...
  • Section 6254.11.
    Nothing in this chapter requires the disclosure of records that relate to volatile organic compounds or chemical substances information received or compiled by an air...
  • Section 6254.12.
    Any information reported to the North American Securities Administrators Association/Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and compiled as disciplinary records which are made available to the Department...
  • Section 6254.13.
    Notwithstanding Section 6254, upon the request of any Member of the Legislature or upon request of the Governor or his or her designee, test questions...
  • Section 6254.14.
    (a) (1) Except as provided in Sections 6254 and 6254.7, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records of the Department of Corrections...
  • Section 6254.15.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of records that are any of the following: corporate financial records, corporate proprietary information...
  • Section 6254.16.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of the name, credit history, utility usage data, home address, or telephone number of...
  • Section 6254.17.
    (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records of the California Victim Compensation Board that relate to a request for assistance...
  • Section 6254.18.
    (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of any personal information received, collected, or compiled by a public agency regarding the employees,...
  • Section 6254.19.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of an information security record of a public agency, if, on the facts of...
  • Section 6254.20.a.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of records that relate to electronically collected personal information, as defined by Section 11015.5,...
  • Section 6254.21.
    (a) No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first obtaining...
  • Section 6254.22.
    Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of records of a health plan that is licensed pursuant to...
  • Section 6254.23.
    Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of a risk assessment or railroad infrastructure protection program filed with...
  • Section 6254.24.
    As used in this chapter, “public safety official” means the following parties, whether active or retired:(a) A peace officer as defined in Sections 830 to 830.65,...
  • Section 6254.25.
    Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of a memorandum submitted to a state body or to the...
  • Section 6254.26.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or other law, the following records regarding alternative investments in which public investment funds invest shall not be subject...
  • Section 6254.27.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure by a county recorder of any “official record” if a “public record” version of...
  • Section 6254.28.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure by a filing office of any “official record” if a “public record” version of...
  • Section 6254.29.
    (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, in order to protect against the risk of identity theft, local agencies shall redact social security numbers...
  • Section 6254.30.a.
    A state or local law enforcement agency shall not require a victim of an incident, or an authorized representative thereof, to show proof of the...
  • Section 6254.33.
    Nothing in this chapter shall require the disclosure of an identification number, alphanumeric character, or other unique identifying code that a public agency uses to...
  • Section 6255.
    (a) 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...
  • Section 6257.5.
    This chapter does not allow limitations on access to a public record based upon the purpose for which the record is being requested, if the...
  • Section 6258.
    Any person may institute proceedings for injunctive or declarative relief or writ of mandate in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his or her...
  • Section 6259.
    (a) Whenever it is made to appear by verified petition to the superior court of the county where the records or some part thereof are situated...
  • Section 6260.
    The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed in any manner to affect the status of judicial records as it existed immediately prior to...
  • Section 6261.
    Notwithstanding Section 6252, an itemized statement of the total expenditures and disbursement of any agency provided for in Article VI of the California Constitution shall...
  • Section 6262.
    The exemption of records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, any state or local agency for licensing purposes under subdivision (f) of Section 6254...
  • Section 6263.
    A state or local agency shall allow an inspection or copying of any public record or class of public records not exempted by this chapter...
  • Section 6264.
    The district attorney may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to require a state or local agency to allow him to inspect or receive a...
  • Section 6265.
    Disclosure of records to a district attorney under the provisions of this chapter shall effect no change in the status of the records under any...
  • Section 6267.
    All patron use records of any library which is in whole or in part supported by public funds shall remain confidential and shall not be...
  • Section 6268.
    Public records, as defined in Section 6252, in the custody or control of the Governor when he or she leaves office, either voluntarily or involuntarily,...
  • Section 6268.5.
    The Secretary of State may appraise and manage new or existing records that are subject to Section 6268 to determine whether the records are appropriate...
  • Section 6270.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state or local agency shall sell, exchange, furnish, or otherwise provide a public record subject to disclosure pursuant...
  • Section 6270.5.
    (a) In implementing this chapter, each local agency, except a local educational agency, shall create a catalog of enterprise systems. The catalog shall be made publicly...

Last modified: October 22, 2018