Garcia
Garcia v. Bellflower Unified School District Governing Board
Opinion
Opinion
Croskey, J.
Bellflower Unified School District (District) appeals an order awarding attorney fees to Christina Garcia as the prevailing party in a proceeding under the California Public Records Act (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.) (Act). The District contends Garcia is not the prevailing party because she achieved no significant success and created no public benefit. We conclude that the results that Garcia obtained through this litigation justify the finding that she prevailed. We therefore will affirm the fee order.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
1. Factual Background
Garcia is a former District employee. She filed an extraordinary writ petition against the District in October 2010 relating to her alleged exposure to mold. (Garcia v. Bellflower Unified School District (Super. Ct. L.A. County, No. BS127095).) Her counsel later served on the District’s counsel in that proceeding, Steven G. Mason, a request for records from the District pursuant to the Act. The letter request was dated August 2, 2011, listed eight categories of requested records, and expressly stated that the records were requested pursuant to the Act.
Garcia requested copies of (1) all lawsuits filed within the…