California Attorney General wants to restrict records request ‘abusers’
A state assembly hearing is scheduled for April 27 on a bill to allow courts to order ‘abusive” or “harassing” requestors from using the California Public Records Act to obtain documents. -DB CalAware April 20, 2009 Attorney General Jerry Brown’s Department of Justice is sponsoring a bill, opposed by Californians Aware and the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA), to allow courts to order “abusive” or “harassing” requestors to stop requesting using the California Public Records