City of Richmond v. Superior Court

Opinion

CHIN, P. J.

Penal Code section 832.7 provides that peace officer personnel records and records of investigations on citizens’ complaints are confidential. It provides that these records “. . . shall not be disclosed in any criminal or civil proceeding except by discovery pursuant to Sections 1043 and 1046 of the Evidence Code. . . .” The San Francisco Bay Guardian (the Guardian) newspaper seeks to obtain from the City of Richmond (Richmond) some information from these records, not pursuant to these Evidence Code sections, but under the provisions of the California Public Records Act,…