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Los Angeles plans to shift records from software to Google

donal brown July 21, 2009

The Los Angeles City Council will decide whether to shift e-mails and other public records from its antiquated records retention software to a Google service which experts say could improve public access. The police department is concerned that sensitive arrest records would not be secure in the event of the shift. -DB Los Angeles Times July 17, 2009 By David Zahniser and Phil Willon Frustrated by a slow and antiquated computer system, the city of Los

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Requesting welfare application of divorced spouse

FAC July 16, 2009

Q: Would I  be able to access my ex-spouse’s recently filed California welfare application? My belief is the application was falsified regarding residency. A: The kind of information you are seeking–names and addresses–may fall under the California Public Records Act (“PRA”) privacy exemption. The PRA provides that public records are presumptively open to the public, unless exempt from disclosure under the PRA. The PRA exempts from disclosure “[p]ersonnel, medical, or similar files, the disclosure of

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