County of Los Angeles v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES CTY.
Opinion
Opinion
Croskey, J.
The petitioner, County of Los Angeles (herein the County), seeks extraordinary writ relief to compel the trial court to vacate its order requiring the County to generate and disclose to the real party in interest, J. Ara Kusar (herein Kusar), certain recorded information regarding every person arrested (for certain particular offenses) by two specifically named deputy sheriffs over a ten-year period beginning January 1, 1981.
We conclude that the trial court’s order compels a disclosure of official governmental records which is neither required nor authorized by the statutory scheme relied upon by Kusar. We will therefore grant the requested writ relief.
Factual and Procedural Background
The issues presented to us are legal in nature and depend upon the following factual background, which is not in dispute.
This action was commenced on September 18, 1992, by Kusar who is a legal secretary in the law offices of Ernest S. Gould, Esq., one of the attorneys of record in this matter, to enforce rights under the California Public Records Act. (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.) As we explain below, it appears that Kusar commenced these proceedings to obtain access to certain public…