City of Hemet v. Superior Court

In City of Hemet v. Superior Court (1995) 37 Cal.App.4th 1411, the court similarly incorporated section 832.7 into the CPRA to hold that a newspaper was not entitled to compel the city to disclose records of an internal police investigation of a police officer's actions. (City of Hemet, supra, 37 Cal.App.4th 1411.) The City of Hemet court agreed that "Bradshaw went too far in refusing to give full effect to the Legislature's specification of police personnel records as 'confidential.' " (Id. at p. 1430.) The court stated that "logic does not permit the conclusion that information may be 'confidential' for one purpose, yet freely disclosable for another. In the Bradshaw court's apparent concern for allowing the city in that case to disseminate information as a matter of legitimate public interest, the court put a gloss on the word 'confidential' which we cannot accept." (Ibid.)