The First Appellate District granted in part and denied in part a petition for a writ of mandate. The court held that the names of county pension beneficiaries and the gross amount of their pension benefits, but not the ages of benefit recipients at retirement, had to be disclosed under the California Public Records Act.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat asked the Sonoma County Employees’ Retirement Association (SCERA) to disclose the names of all individual receiving SCERA retirement benefits, as well as the dates of their retirement and their ages at retirement. SCERA declined to produce information disclosing retirement allowances linked to individual names and ages at retirement.
