Section 9074 Of Article 3.5. Legislative Open Records Act From California Government Code >> Division 2. >> Title 2. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 1.5. >> Article 3.5.
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. All requests to inspect any legislative record shall be made
to the appropriate Rules Committee of each house of the Legislature
or the Joint Rules Committee, except that all requests to inspect any
legislative record in the possession of the Auditor General shall be
made to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Such committees shall
be considered to have custody of all legislative records and shall
be responsible for making all legislative records available for
inspection. Such committees shall promptly inform any person whether
any legislative record shall be made available for inspection. Such
legislative records shall be made available for inspection promptly
and without unnecessary delay. Whenever such committee withholds any
legislative record from inspection, within four working days of the
request to inspect such record, the committee shall justify in
writing the withholding of such record by demonstrating that the
record in question is exempt under the express provisions of this
article or that on the facts of the particular case the public
interest served by not making the record public clearly outweighs the
public interest served by disclosure of the record, provided that
when the Legislature is not in session, such committee shall furnish
such written justification within 10 working days of the request to
inspect such record. The Rules Committee of each house, the Joint
Rules Committee, and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee shall
adopt written guidelines stating the procedures to be followed when
making legislative records available for inspection.
The amendment of this section made at the 1981-82 Regular Session
of the Legislature does not constitute a change in, but is
declaratory of, the existing law.