Pantos v. City and County of San Francisco

Opinion

LOW, P. J.

In this case we hold that when the defendant-court completes the compilation of a master list of qualified jurors, whether on tape or in other document form, the list by name and address is a judicial record subject to public inspection and copying. Neither the Public Records Act (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.) 1 nor other law requires defendant to publicly disclose to plaintiff information from a juror’s questionnaire. That information is obtained under representations of confidentiality and is used by the court as working notes and data to determine juror competency,…