Szold
Szold v. MEDICAL BD. OF CALIFORNIA
Opinion
Opinion
Aaron, J.
I.
INTRODUCTION
The Medical Board of California (Board) maintains a Web site on which it posts information pertaining to physicians licensed in California. If a licensee has completed a period of probation imposed by the Board, that information is posted on the Board’s Web site. Dr. Philip D. Szold is a licensee who completed probation with the Board in July 2003. The Board’s Web site states that Szold completed probation with the Board and lists the case number of the case from which the probation arose.
Szold filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the trial court seeking an order requiring the Board to remove from its Web site any references to his having completed probation and any references to the case number from which the probation arose. Szold also requested that the Board delete from its Web site any similar references to other licensees having completed probation. The trial court denied Szold’s petition.
On appeal, Szold claims that the statute mandating that the Board disclose to the public information regarding its licensees (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 803.1) and the statute mandating that the Board post on the Internet information pertaining to its…