Gov. Brown’s budget proposal for California includes a hefty fee for individuals, news media and others who want to inspect court records.
The plan would impose a $10 charge for looking up documents, a service now provided for free. The courts now charge $15 to check out a record if a member of the public keeps it for more than 10 minutes. The new plan would exempt fees for people looking up their own cases, but it would double the cost of making copies to $1 per page, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The plan must be approved by the Legislature.