SACRAMENTO — An early draft of rules (.pdf) that will govern public access to court administrative records is too vague and restrictive, First Amendment advocates say.
The proposed Rule of Court, drafted by the Administrative Office of the Courts, tracks too closely to California’s Legislative Open Records Act, which provides only limited access to information about the Legislature’s operations, critics say. They instead want the new rule to mirror the state’s Public Records Act, a more powerful law that gives Californians broad rights to government documents.
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