Agencies May Get Break on Requests for Records
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From Times Wire Reports
Public agencies would get several more days to consider public record requests under a bill passed by the Assembly on Thursday. The bill would give them 10 working days instead of calendar days.
Requested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department but opposed by the California Newspaper Publishers Assn., the bill passed by 53 to 7.
Assemblyman Robert Pacheco (R-Walnut) said the Sheriff’s Department spends up to $200,000 a year on overtime because of a major increase in public records requests.
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