What Types of Records Can Be Requested?
You can inspect all “public records” of the government bodies subject to the CPRA. The term “public records” is broadly defined to include information relating to the conduct of the public’s business that is prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored. See Cal.Gov’t Code Section 6252(e). Public records do not extend to personal information of public officers which are unrelated to the conduct of public business (for example, a phone message taken by a public officer from a colleague’s wife about picking up the children), or computer software developed by the government.
