Why is okay to withhold information transferred to electronic format when the same information in document form is available under the California Public Records Act( (CPRA)? That is the question the California Supreme Court will consider in reviewing a Court of Appeal decision that Orange County could charge the Sierra Club $300,000 for the Orange County GIS basemap of public property information, effectively blocking public access.
The lower court had ruled that transferring the property data to “computer software” qualified the data as an exemption to the CPRA. -db
From a commentary for the Electronic Freedom Foundation, September 16, 2011, by Mark Rumold.