Vol. 35 No. 19 A CITY’S EFFORTS TO REDACT ELECTRONIC DATA PRIOR TO DELIVERING RESPONSIVE RECORDS IN RESPONSE TO A PUBLIC RECORDS ACT REQUEST IS NOT COMPENSABLE
On May 28, 2020, the California Supreme Court issued the long-awaited opinion in National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter v. City of Hayward (S252445). The Court rejected the argument that staff time and effort spent editing and redacting confidential or exempt data from responsive video footage could be charged to the Public Records […]