Supreme Court of California

The Court of Appeal properly upheld the trial court's denial of plaintiff-police union's request for a permanent injunction to prevent the release of the names of its officers involved in certain shootings while on duty, where: 1) here, in weighing the competing interests, the balance tips strongly in favor of identity disclosure and against the personal privacy interests of the officers involved; 2) no exemptions under the California Public Records Act is applicable here; and 3) the trial court's denial of injunctive relief was without prejudice to any later evidentiary showing that disclosing a particular officer's name would compromise that officer's safety or the safety of the officer's family.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2014
• Published 05/29/2014

Judges

• KENNARD

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel