Legal Opinion
Cal. Pub. Records Research, Inc. v. Cnty. of Alameda
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided July 22, 2019No. A152843; A153786PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtJones, P. J.
*802We consider a county's exercise of its statutorily delegated discretion to set fees for copies of official records. Government Code section 27366 provides that the fee "shall be set ... in an amount necessary to recover the direct and indirect costs of providing the product or service."1 In 2010, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors (the County) adopted an ordinance charging $3.50 per page for copies of official records from the Clerk-Recorder's Office. In 2014, California Public Records Research, Inc. (CPRR) filed a petition for a writ of mandate under Code of Civil Procedure section 1085…
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