A Superior Court judge in Sacramento has tentatively ruled that detailed spending records of individual California legislators are public records and must be disclosed.
Judge Timothy Frawley will conduct a hearing on the matter today. In a tentative ruling released Thursday night, he wrote that the budget documents sought by two newspapers “indisputably contain information relating to the conduct of the public’s business” and that the Legislative Open Records Act “reflects a strong presumption in favor of public access to legislative records,” the Sacramento Bee reported.
Read the full story here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/02/4095000/feud-over-calif-assembly-records.html