Terzian

By these proceedings petitioner as the Director of the Department of Social Welfare of the County of Alameda seeks to avoid disclosure of information and records concerning a minor who was committed to the department to arrange adoptive placement or to make a suitable plan (Civ. Code, § 226c) after she had been declared free from parental control and custody (see Civ. Code, §§ 232-239), and who is also the subject of proceedings in which the real party in interest seeks to be appointed her guardian. In 1 Civil 27821 petitioner seeks a writ of mandate to set aside an order entered in the guardianship proceeding which granted the motion of real party in interest that the welfare department be compelled to answer certain interrogatories. In 1 Civil 27904 he seeks a writ of prohibition preventing enforcement of an order by which the court in the guardianship proceedings ordered the probation department to investigate the respective homes of the real party in interest and of proposed adoptive parents with whom the child had been placed for adoption by the welfare department. (See Prob. Code, § 1443.)

In'support of each petition the director contends that the matters which are…