AB 1455: The California Public Records Act: exemptions.

Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. Existing law exempts from disclosure specific records of state agencies related to activities governed by the Dills Act, the State Excluded Employees Bill of Rights, and the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act.

This bill would also exempt from disclosure specific records of local agencies related to activities governed by the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.

The California Constitution requires local agencies, for the purpose of ensuring public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, to comply with a statutory enactment that amends or enacts laws relating to public records or open meetings and contains findings demonstrating that the enactment furthers the constitutional requirements relating to this purpose.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.