Supreme Court of California

Under Gov. Code 6254(f) of the California Public Records Act, law enforcement records of investigations are exempt on their face from public disclosure, whether or not they are ever included in an investigatory file, and do not require "concrete and definite" actions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2001
• Published 10/01/2001

Judges

•  BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Adam Axelrad, Robert Mann, Donald W. Cook;  Litt and Associates and Barrett S. Litt, Los Angeles, for Petitioner., Daniel P. Tokaji, Los Angeles, Alan Schlosser and Jordan C. Budd for ACLU Foundation of Southern California, ACLU Foundation of Northern California and ACLU Foundation of Imperial & San Diego Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges and Timothy L. Alger for California Newspaper Publishers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez and Steven J. Renick, Los Angeles, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.