Opinion No. (2008)

EDMUND G. BROWN JR. Attorney General DANIEL G. STONE Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE LOUIS B. GREEN, COUNTY COUNSEL, COUNTY OF EL DORADO, has requested an opinion on the following question: Where a county maintains a comprehensive database of property-related information that may incidentally contain the home addresses and telephone numbers of persons who are elected or appointed public officials, but who are not identifiable as such from the data, does Government Code section 6254.21 (a) require the county to obtain those officials' permission before it may transmit the database over a limited-access network, such as an "intranet," "extranet," or "virtual private network"? *Page 2 CONCLUSION Where a county maintains a comprehensive database of property-related information that may incidentally contain the home addresses and telephone numbers of persons who are elected or appointed public officials, but who are not identifiable as such from the data, Government Code section 6254.21 (a) does not require the county to obtain permission from those officials before transmitting the database over a limited-access network, such as an "intranet," "extranet," or "virtual private…