California Court of Appeal

SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS ASS'N v. VENEGAS, C030428

A police department's internal affairs index card, naming an officer and listing all complaints made against him, is a file "used for personnel purposes" under the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, for purposes of the officer's right to read and respond.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/03/2002
• Published 09/03/2002

Judges

• SCOTLAND, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Mastagni, Holstedt & Chiurazzi, Richard J. Chiurazzi, Sacramento, Charles H. Briggs III and Kasey Christopher Clark, Sacramento, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Samuel L. Jackson, City Attorney and Bruce Cline and Marcos A. Kropf, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendants and Respondents.