Shippen v. Department of Motor Vehicles

Opinion

REGAN, Acting P. J.

—Defendant Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) appeals from the judgment which permanently enjoined DMV from withholding from plaintiifs copies of certain records after plaintiifs’ payment of the actual cost of providing such copies. We reverse.

Facts

Plaintiif Realty Information Systems is a California nonprofit corporation interested in obtaining computer records of vehicle registration information. Plaintiif Terrence Shippen is the president of that company. DMV maintains computerized registration records of California vehicles.

In July 1982 plaintiifs requested a…